The Flap
by Kathy Brown on June 16th, 2010 | 0 comments
What would the reaction be if we woke up this morning, turned on the news and discovered that six thousand lives were expected to be lost in one county next year because of the oil spill? Who would be mobilized to prevent that disaster? What laws would be shuffled forward to prevent that from ever happening again? How likely is it that there would be a press conference, diagrams of the forecast and disaster relief measures prepared? Would there be soapers and sand dusters marching to the beaches expected to be impacted? Which company would be sued? Who would be blamed?
How very trivial that would be compared to the actual truth of what goes on every year across America in the abortion clinics like Planned Parenthood. Inside Cleveland’s county alone there were actually six thousand nine hundred eighty-six unborn put to death last year. Not maybe, not hardly, but really. Why is this not devastating, horrific, terrible news?
We need to do some serious thinking about that. The answer is both simple and complicated. The simple part is that our culture has lost the Biblical worldview that once informed its laws and character. Extracted from almost every aspect of public life is the cord to the Creator God that was once the tether to decision making and good government.
The complicated part is that the shift away from morality and an understanding of Truth has become normal. There is a numb response to promiscuity, premarital sex, divorce and homosexuality. The basic relationship foundations of family have been cast aside without much ado. The side-effects of breaking down the beneficial boundaries of sexual behavior are obvious and negative. Rather than return to a cultural consensus of virtuous living, many other so-called remedies must be embraced. Abortion is one of them.
If the cameras were on the procedure of pulling the pre-born from the womb as often as it shows the oily duck eggs off the Gulf of Mexico, there would be outrage. Downy feathers unable to flap are nothing compared to the breath of a baby unable to gasp. Let the clean-up begin.
From Romans 12:1:
Therefore, I urge you brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God--this is your spiritual act of worship.
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