This weeks Clicki, Vidi, Linki (I clicked, I saw, I linked) is dedicated to the one social issue that those who preach a social gospel seem most silent on. In the book “Adventures in Missing the Point” by Mclaren and Campolo, the authors took the church to task for not being “liberal enough” (my words) in major issues that coincidentally align themselves with one particular political ideology. They say that the church has missed the point on these social issues (environmentalism, homosexuality, suffrage etc.) and in some areas they are right (and in other ways horribly off base). But time and again this one issue is given but a passing glance. This one issue deals with the one group of people that for the past several decades now have been the most oppressed with few to speak on their behalf, and many seeking their extermination.
Who are these people? What is this issue that seems so often neglected by the social gospel crowd? The people are the unborn, and the issue is the horriffic act of abortion.
This is on my mind recently because of the gall of the N.O.W. to attack an upcoming (hopefully) Superbowl ad celebrating the life of Tim Tebow, a life that if his mom had heeded her doctors advice wouldn’t exist.
Now, I do believe that in some ways the church has missed the point when it comes to abortion. They are absolutely correct in asserting it is evil and an evidence of the sinfulness of mankind. They are correct in promoting life and discouraging the culture of death surrounding the Planned Parenthood agenda. But alas, where some and fortunately not all, miss the point is that the issue dies when the baby is born. Promoting life needs to start at conception and continue at all stages of life!
Where I believe the social gospelers (and this is my stereotype I know) miss the point is in for a practical purposes ignoring it lest, I propose, they fall out of favor with their favorite political party. (Proposing such lunacies as reduce the number of abortions by making it legal)
With that I leave you with a few more links:
Mugged by the Ultrasound – by Al Mohler
Leave it to Joy Behar on “The View” to come up with the most ridiculous reason that this story has nothing to do with pro-life, as “Tebow could just have well grown up to be a pervert or rapist as opposed to a football star”. I’m guessing she was trying to make the point that a childs outcome has nothing to do with a mother’s decision to keep or abort.
First….why are you watching “The View”?
Second, The outcome of the child has nothing and everything to do with the mothers decision to not to kill her unborn baby. Nothing in the sense that the mother doesn’t know exactly what the child will grow up to be. Everything in the sense that she knows that the baby is, and will turn out to be a child with all the potentiality that is wrapped up therein.