When you hold up a sign opposing abortion, there is a good chance you will get some feedback. For reasons I have yet to figure out, seemingly rational people will get in your face to tell you that a mother has a right to pay to have her unborn child killed and evacuated from her womb when and where she wants. Some of them will even argue that it is the duty of the federal government to make taxpayes pay for a woman’s right to a dead baby.
The pregnancy center where I worked would hold an annual walk for life to raise money to provide women with better options than dead babies. And inevitably we would come across protesters who berated us for denying women the choice to have a dead baby if that was what she wanted. I always found these encounters surreal. I mean who can actually look you in the eye and argue in favor of dead babies?
Apparently, some of the people who occupy space next to you in the pew.
Just ask Todd Bullis who was kicked out of his church because he refused to repent for bringing up the problem of intentionally making dead babies. Because that might make us uncomfortable.
Now I agree that it’s infinitely more fun to sing worship songs and listen to inspiring sermons and just about anything else, including getting my teeth drilled, than talk about abortion. But just because we pretend the problem isn’t a problem doesn’t mean it isn’t. Because it is.
The real problem is that if we work too hard at convincing ourselves that we don’t want to see something we would prefer not to see, eventually we lose our sight altogether. That’s how vision works. It’s an all-or-none proposition. You either open your eyes and see the world as it is and deal with it or live with your eyes shut and, over time, forget how to see. “Their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes…”
Our attempt to see selectively – to see only that which pleases us – actually makes us blind.
And those of us who call ourselves the church in America are blind. Not only…but especially…to abortion.
We know what abortion is. When it comes to prolife activities, we’ve been there, done that and bought the t-shirt. Yet after 37 years following the national legalization of abortion, we don’t seem to have made a dent. There are almost as many dead babies now as there ever were.
I can’t fault Mr. Burris for wanting to shake the church out of our slumber. But holding a sign that says the equivalent of “look here” may not be espeically effective if your audience is blind.
More: http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/apr/10041905.html
