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Today I'm going to read from my latest article at World Opinions. As always, you can check out a lot of good

articles that show up every day there at World Opinions. This one is written as a response to

some of the response that Christians were getting from other Christians after the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

And so I wanted to address some of the commentary and concerns from other Christians and decided to go at it,

I guess you might say, with a little bit of satire, which is not what one should use normally

to communicate, but is appropriate to use. We see both biblical example and many times throughout

church history of Christians employing satire to some good effect.

So I suppose in a way that's what I'm doing here, but I think with an important point to make.

So this is called when Roe was overturned, Christians should rejoice in the destruction of an instrument of death. Do you remember

the climactic scene from the original Star Wars movie? Luke Skywalker is flying his ex-wing

starfighter through a maze of trenches along the surface of the Death Star. After nearly escaping

one attack after another from the Empire,

Luke is about to be shot down by Darth Vader, but just in the nick of time, Hans Solo and

Chewbacca swooped down in the Millennium Falcon and bounce Darth Vader. Luke fires two

torpedoes down the thermal exhaust port, and a few seconds later, the Death Star is blown apart.

What had seemed impossible to almost everyone was now a reality. The Death Star was gone.

I'm sure you remember what comes next. As soon as Luke returned his X-wing to the hangar, he was greeted by muted celebration.

One of the other pilots reminded Luke there was still a lot of work to do to make the galaxy safe for hurting people everywhere.

A member of the Rebel Alliance asked Luke when he was going to subdue the violent sand people on his home planet of Tatooine.

Another friend advised Luke that many people in the galaxy were devastated by

the news about the Death Star and that perhaps a time of listening was in order. As you recall,

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