To me, it is no controversial statement that black lives matter. As a Christian, I believe all human lives matter. I believe "...God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”" (Genesis 1:27-28). I also believe God said "Surely for your lifeblood I will demand a reckoning; from the hand of every beast I will require it, and from the hand of man. From the hand of every man’s brother I will require the life of man. “Whoever sheds man’s blood, By man his blood shall be shed; For in the image of God He made man. And as for you, be fruitful and multiply; Bring forth abundantly in the earth And multiply in it.”" (Genesis 9:5-7).
With that in mind, I firmly believe black lives matter. No one should kill another, regardless of what shade of brown their skin is. And I say that because really, there are no "races". There are no black men and white men. The color of our skin is all controlled by the same pigment, and because we are all descended from the same human couple, it is entirely possible for twins to have differing amounts of it. There is one human race, every member of which is sacred. The death of a human being is not to be taken lightly. It is a tragic thing which, ideally, should be left entirely to God. There are times when He delegates this task to others, but it is almost always delegated to a legitimate authority, executing God's wrath against a genuine crime. It is never "you're the wrong color".
This, unfortunately, does not stop Satan from attacking God's image. As Jesus says, "...He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it." (John 8:44). This monster hates the image bearers of God, and will do anything in his power to destroy it.
For this reason, many of his lies cause one image bearer of God to degrade another. We see this in lies like Evolution, a religion in which men are descended from lower animals. As Stephen Jay Gould once said, "Biological arguments for racism may have been common before 1859, but they increased by orders of magnitude following the acceptance of evolutionary theory. The litany is familiar: cold, dispassionate, objective, modern science shows us that races can be ranked on a scale of superiority. If this offends Christian morality or a sentimental belief in human unity, so be it; science must be free to proclaim unpleasant truths." (1).
This is unsurprising, as the face and chief proponent of Evolution, Charles Darwin, was a vicious racist, believing that the Caucasian (i.e. "white man") was the superior race, being so far above the others that they would, and "hopefully" should, exterminate the others, leaving only monkeys (2).
Darwin spawned a number of disciples, leading to hundreds of atrocities both great and "small". There was the Bodysnatch, in which aborigines were hunted down like butterflies to be "research specimens". There was the tragic incident of Ota Benga, stolen from his home and kept in a zoo. Of course, there was the Holocaust, during which Social Darwinism thrived, portraying Aryans as superior to the "sub human" races, many of whom the Nazis sought to specifically exterminate.
But we needn't think we've put all this behind us. Minorities are still under attack, but not by the people you're being told. Of course, I can think of few things more racist than a rich old white dude suggesting he is entitled to the devotion of black people, such as when Joe Biden said "...if you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black." But in my eyes, even if you're such a brazen racist that you demand support from black people, lest you decide they must surrender their ethnic identity, you're still not as racist as if you complain that a supreme court decision makes it harder to kill black people.
See, racism isn't about which political candidates you support. It's not even necessarily about how you treat people of a different race than yourself. As the jokes says, "it's not racist if I hate everyone equally". But what if you hate one group more than another? What if, like Charles Darwin, you have so much disdain for black people that you devise a strategy to make them turn on each other, resulting in them sowing the seeds of their own destruction? Basically, what if you are Planned Parenthood founder, Margaret Sanger?
Due to her prolific engagement in politics, Sanger's life is very well documented. It is, at this point in history, impossible to deny that Margaret Sanger, influenced by Darwin and his ilk, was a brazen racist. With a particular hatred for black people, Sanger believed most of the world's problems could be credited to "unchecked breeding", believing that euthanasia, birth control, sterilization, and, yes, abortion, would reduce these problems greatly. In Sanger's eyes, more than 70% of the population was "unfit" and "undesirable", and should therefore not "breed unhindered". To that end, she and her ilk set up clinics in the communities of "dysgenic races", starting with her first clinic in Brownsville, Brooklyn, in 1916.
In 1930, Sanger colluded with other Eugenicists to open another clinic in Harlem, Manhattan, which was signposted as a "research bureau". Naturally, the black community was suspicious of this, and rightly so. They believed the clinic was designed to sterilize black people, which is a well documented goal of Sanger, who at the time was quite cozy with a number of racist organisations, including the infamous Klu Klux Klan.
Setting Sanger aside for a moment, ask yourself, who benefits most from black abortions? Objectively, abortion benefits zero people. The babies, of course, lose their lives, and painfully at that. The mother has cheated herself out of a great blessing, and tarnished her soul by consenting to the murder of her own flesh and blood. The so-called "doctor", likewise, has committed a soul-splitting, grievous act which, if he remains impenitent, will burn hotter than most others in the fires of Hell. The nations which tolerate such egregious evils also sacrifice the favor of God, whose wrath is stayed only by His grace, and, if possible, by the presence of just 10 righteous men.
But think of it from an Earthly perspective. From a position of spiritual ignorance, who is more motivated to promote black abortions than white supremacists? If a Klansman wants to reduce the presence of black people in America, why would he ever oppose abortion? Especially now, when Sanger's clinics, to this day, are strategically placed to hoover up the "unfit". It is a fact that pleases every non-black racist on this Earth: Abortion disproportionately affects black people.
And the radical Left wants to keep it that way.
Notice the line of argument used by abortionists since (and even before) the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Black people are specifically singled out as being disproportionately affected by abortion restrictions. Why? Because they are disproportionately targeted by abortion.
One example of this disgusting rhetoric is Janet Yellen, who testified during a Senate hearing "In many cases, abortions are of teenage women, particularly low income, and often black, who aren’t in a position to be able to care for children..." (emphasis mine), adding "It means that children will grow up in poverty and do worse themselves.". Unfortunately for her, she made the mistake of saying this to Senator Tim Scott, who swiftly rebuked her by saying "I’ll just simply say that as a guy raised by a Black woman in abject poverty, I am thankful to be here as a United States senator." He would go on to say "My circumstance is like so many others. Millions and millions of kids being raised in poverty by single parent households who happen to be Black. Telling Black teenage moms that there is only one alternative for them is a depressing and challenging message."
There are few things more satisfying than taking away a Leftist's race card. I particularly like how Larry O'Connor responded to this discussion, saying "Nothing better than a multi-millionaire old white woman lecturing a black man about how his mother was a loser because she let him be born." There goes the idea that it's Conservatives, and in particular the Republican party, who are racists, because they typically don't like abortion.
It turns out, the opposite is the case. When the radical Left scream "Black Lives Matter", they don't mean it. Black people are pawns to them. Means to an end to be picked up and set back down again whenever it's convenient. They'll turn a blind eye to black-on-black crime. They'll ignore black officers who die in the line of duty. They'll even dismiss Conservative black voices, calling them "uncle Tom" and "race traitors". They even called Larry the "black face of white supremacy" for running against Gavin Newsom, a white man! So is it any wonder they turn a blind eye when black babies silently scream with their underdeveloped vocal chords as their limbs are pulled off and their skulls are crushed? No. When the Left chant "black lives matter", it is nothing more than a true statement taken captive for selfish goals. They don't mean it.
But when Conservatives, and in particular Christians, say in turn "all lives matter", we genuinely mean it. Where oppression rises, we oppose it. Where injustice happens, we rebuke it. Where sin reigns supreme, we preach rebellion via repentance. No one should die unjustly, least of all the most innocent and defenceless among us. Black lives matter, and so abortion cannot be sustained. It is morally repugnant, regardless of what color the victim is, but it cannot be denied that the practice was specifically designed to reduce, and even erase, specific ethnic groups. It is so detestable that when we see it in our past, we naturally recoil, so how is it even remotely tolerable when we do it? Of course, the answer to that is via deception. Even the very language abortionists use is set up to make it seem more palatable to the common man. Yet, when we look at what abortion really is, we see it as the repugnant crime against humanity that it is, and has always been. There is no "right" to an abortion! I challenge anyone to explain why abortion should even be considered a right. You can't. It's an indefensible sin.
And that's why "He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He opened not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, And as a sheep before its shearers is silent, So He opened not His mouth." (Isaiah 53:7). Jesus, when He was tried, said nothing in His defence, because nothing could be said in our defence. Satan's murders go beyond simply turning us against each other; he turned us against God. From the moment he deceived Eve into eating the fruit, which God had explicitly warned would bring forth death, he killed the entire human race. One by one, we are born into this world, and "...the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth...".
And so, as God tells us through Paul, "Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned— (For until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned according to the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come." (Romans 5:12-14). But praise be to God, the last Adam has come! As the scriptures foretold, the son of God was born to the virgin Mary, a perfect, innocent baby boy, raised in innocence. But unlike us, He did not lose that innocence. Pure of heart from conception, Jesus continued in life, knowing no sin. Yet scripture tells us He became sin for us, so that we may become the righteousness of God in Him (2 Corinthians 5:21).
God hates abortion. It is a vicious act of premeditated murder, shedding the blood of men made in His image, and even violating His Holy decree that whoever sheds the blood of a man, by a man shall his blood be shed. This detestable bloodshed cries out to Him, and His righteous anger burns bright against it. But while God hates "A proud look, A lying tongue,
Hands that shed innocent blood, A heart that devises wicked plans, Feet that are swift in running to evil, A false witness who speaks lies, And one who sows discord among brethren" (Proverbs 6:16-19), "...God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." (Romans 5:8).
All lives matter to God, so much so that while the soul that sins will die (Ezekiel 18:4, 20), God takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked (Ezekiel 18:32; 33:11), wanting no one to perish (2 Peter 3:9), but instead that all men be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth (1 Timothy 2:3-4). Therefore, not even the life of His own Son was too high a price to purchase our lives. Therefore, His word says "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." (1 John 1:9).
Even abortion.
Our world is full of sinners. You are a sinner. As am I. But as Paul testifies, "This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief." (1 Timothy 1:15). I therefore call upon all abortionists, and all people everywhere, to obey God's command to repent! "As I live,’ says the Lord God, ‘I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why should you die..." (Ezekiel 33:11). Repent, for God's sake, and for yours. Otherwise, God will be forced to abort you.
References
1. Gould, Stephen J. - Ontogeny and Phylogeny, Belknap-Harvard Press, 1977 (link)
2. Darwin, Charles - The Descent of Man, 1871