“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” famously quoted Shakespeare in his play Romeo and Juliet. It has sparked numerous greeting cards, swooned women, and inspired poets. But yet a rose called by any other name still makes it an object of beauty, red, thorns, and botany.
Throughout history man has communicated through symbols, sounds and grunts. In the Bible, God gave Adam the responsibility to name all of the creatures calling things by name. Adam gave the names to which he saw for every animal; Calling a bear, tiger, lion, hawk and hippo each by their respective names. We in turn get the names from our parents, Titus, Troy, Marsha, and Melanie. They name us because they saw fit that we have something to be known by, respected and find worth in. They hold much significance and meaning. If you were to call the rose by another name would it be a different flower? Would it not have the same attributes and traits yet just another title?
Name by definition is a word or term used for identification. Names can have an influence on people depending on their name. In fact, the Romans used to say “nomen est omen,” that is “name is destiny.” Let us say that you call a child “ugly” instead of by their given name. Would that not affect the child growing up, suffer from low self-esteem and probably not amount to much. Or if we instilled the name “Judah”, meaning Judah is: Praise or the praised one. Living up to that name would be a significant difference.
When we distinguish between a baby and an adult is there a difference between the two? Except, one could argue, their development stages? One can walk, the other cannot. One can talk, and the other is still a babbling brook. We still identify each as a human; however, no matter if they are a baby or a man. Do we distinguish between a flower bulb and an flower? Is not the flower bulb still identified over all as a flower knowing even though it is yet a bulb that it will in future produce the divine scent of a flower? For without the bulb you have no hopes of ever having an flower.
All of life has to start somewhere. People are looking and discovering life on Mars with single celled organisms yet we fail to call a baby a human when it develops in the womb. As the flower bulb is still a flower, a human in the womb is still a man even though it is still developing. It is now being called a fetus, side stepping the overarching identification that a human is developing.
Returning to the flower bed, if we continue to call a rose by any other name many people may be confused and angered especially if people find out that the man who changed it only did so because he did not like the name rose. If we continue to allow a “fetus” to be aborted we are living up to the prophesy of the Romans as they stated, “name is destiny.” That fetus will be extracted and die as the mother wishes. Yet if we identify the human as a “baby” acknowledging that the baby will be an adult, the destiny is severely altered producing life and a new destiny.
Changing a name is important. It will swings the tides an unnatural course when we do. As it has. 54,559,615 abortions have happened since Roe Vs. Wade stated the Life News website. That isn’t counting the ones that didn’t report anything. We are allowing for the killings of several people because we have altered the name and identification of a developing human in the womb to a fetus that is an inconvenience for the woman. Without a fetus there can be no human life, just as without an apple seed there is no apple tree.
It is time for the tides to change and reclaim the destinies of all the names of human life that have been cut short due to others calling them by something else. Help us stop this destiny. In November, let your vote recognize and defend life.
Nomen est omen.
Morgan Richert
Throughout history man has communicated through symbols, sounds and grunts. In the Bible, God gave Adam the responsibility to name all of the creatures calling things by name. Adam gave the names to which he saw for every animal; Calling a bear, tiger, lion, hawk and hippo each by their respective names. We in turn get the names from our parents, Titus, Troy, Marsha, and Melanie. They name us because they saw fit that we have something to be known by, respected and find worth in. They hold much significance and meaning. If you were to call the rose by another name would it be a different flower? Would it not have the same attributes and traits yet just another title?
Name by definition is a word or term used for identification. Names can have an influence on people depending on their name. In fact, the Romans used to say “nomen est omen,” that is “name is destiny.” Let us say that you call a child “ugly” instead of by their given name. Would that not affect the child growing up, suffer from low self-esteem and probably not amount to much. Or if we instilled the name “Judah”, meaning Judah is: Praise or the praised one. Living up to that name would be a significant difference.
When we distinguish between a baby and an adult is there a difference between the two? Except, one could argue, their development stages? One can walk, the other cannot. One can talk, and the other is still a babbling brook. We still identify each as a human; however, no matter if they are a baby or a man. Do we distinguish between a flower bulb and an flower? Is not the flower bulb still identified over all as a flower knowing even though it is yet a bulb that it will in future produce the divine scent of a flower? For without the bulb you have no hopes of ever having an flower.
All of life has to start somewhere. People are looking and discovering life on Mars with single celled organisms yet we fail to call a baby a human when it develops in the womb. As the flower bulb is still a flower, a human in the womb is still a man even though it is still developing. It is now being called a fetus, side stepping the overarching identification that a human is developing.
Returning to the flower bed, if we continue to call a rose by any other name many people may be confused and angered especially if people find out that the man who changed it only did so because he did not like the name rose. If we continue to allow a “fetus” to be aborted we are living up to the prophesy of the Romans as they stated, “name is destiny.” That fetus will be extracted and die as the mother wishes. Yet if we identify the human as a “baby” acknowledging that the baby will be an adult, the destiny is severely altered producing life and a new destiny.
Changing a name is important. It will swings the tides an unnatural course when we do. As it has. 54,559,615 abortions have happened since Roe Vs. Wade stated the Life News website. That isn’t counting the ones that didn’t report anything. We are allowing for the killings of several people because we have altered the name and identification of a developing human in the womb to a fetus that is an inconvenience for the woman. Without a fetus there can be no human life, just as without an apple seed there is no apple tree.
It is time for the tides to change and reclaim the destinies of all the names of human life that have been cut short due to others calling them by something else. Help us stop this destiny. In November, let your vote recognize and defend life.
Nomen est omen.
Morgan Richert