Brilliant Darkness - The Rationale by Which Biblical Christianity has Justified 40 Years of Abortion Apathy
By: Rolley Haggard
“If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!” Matthew 6:23
Cardinal Henry Edward Manning once remarked that in the end all problems are theological. I couldn’t agree more.
One of Mankind’s Greatest Problems
Just a few weeks ago we all saw an example of what is arguably one of
mankind’s greatest problems. You can probably guess the event I’m
alluding to: the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. You are
unlikely, though, to guess why I cite it.
Contrary to what you might assume, I don’t cite it because of the raw
display of murderous rage that drove Adam Lanza to gun down more than
two dozen innocent people.
Nor do I cite it because of the sad circumstances of Adam’s life that resulted in his carrying out these horrific acts.
No; there was, coterminous with what happened at Sandy Hook, a more
fundamental and pervasive problem occurring across America, indicting
all but a percentage who have awakened to the passive monster in us all.
Sandy Hook provided an opportunity for us to see it in sharp relief.
Yet lamentably, still relatively few actually see the problem, which
is this: that certain unutterably great evils can be committed on a
grand scale right before our eyes and yet most of us, even Christians,
though we know it is going on, act as if nothing is happening. We are inexplicably untouched, unaffected, and unmoved, and as a consequence we do practically nothing to stop it.
Surely, we ought to be convulsed with moral outrage every
time something as horrifically evil as Sandy Hook happens. Instead, we
too readily and too often accept the commission of certain great evils
with something bordering on nonchalance.
Abortion in America, on this 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, provides 54 million cases in point.
Rolley Haggard is a feature writer for BreakPoint.
BreakPoint is a Christian worldview ministry that seeks to build and
resource a movement of Christians committed to living and defending
Christian worldview in all areas of life.
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