Be Careful: Baby Killing is Contagious!
Posted on 06/05/09 11:26
It was one of those news reports I couldn’t read. The headline said enough.
“Man Throws Baby From Car.”
My body reacts physically to incredible evil. Something happens when knowledge of the unspeakable hits my temporal lobe, the place where we all experience God in our brains.
A sensation not unlike electric shock shot down the back left side of my skull, just reading the headline. Later in the day, I heard someone on television say that the three-month old baby boy died.
A wasted life, literally thrown away.
Social commentators will spend some time analyzing why and how this happened, but the truth is that baby killing is contagious.
Nonsense, you may think. But is it really? I contend that baby killing is just as contagious as swine flu.
Malcolm Gladwell talked about what causes...
epidemics in his outstanding book, The Tipping Point. He gave as example an epidemic of suicide in Micronesia. Suicide, an individual act, should have no inherent ability to be contagious. But Gladwell argues that social rules govern actions like suicide, causing more suicides shortly after the first notable event.
History proves this is true for many destructive actions, such as school shootings. Educators and police braced themselves and publicly warned against copycats following events like the Virginia Tech massacre or Columbine.
Baby killing is no different. Only this time, the government of our country establishes the social rules by officially sanctioning baby killing.
Before you think this is nonsense, listen to Gladwell’s words on the epidemic of suicide: “The kind of contagion…isn’t something rational or even necessarily conscious. It’s not like a persuasive argument. It’s something much more subtle than that…The decision by someone famous to take his or her own life has the same effect: it gives other people, particularly those vulnerable to suggestion…permission to engage in a deviant act as well.”
The United States government decreed 36 years ago that abortion is legal. What group is more influential in the entire secular world than the US government?
And what has happened in these past 36 years? Those who are vulnerable to the suggestion that there is nothing wrong with abortion have had abortions. Those even more vulnerable to suggestion have unconsciously assimilated that no longer is this country about the right to life for every citizen, it is only about the right to life for those who are wanted, those who aren’t in the way.
And so, a precious baby boy, who just happened to be in the way of an impulsive unthinking man-child, is thrown to his death on an interstate.
Gladwell also writes that not only are we sensitive to the subtle suggestions made by the influential, but we are also sensitive to context. We are sensitive to the broken windows in our environment, and our behavior degrades in their presence.
We can ignore the broken window of abortion, and continue to see crimes like this and the rest of the incredible violence in our culture. Or, we can fix the problem of abortion, through concentrating our prayers, resources and voices against it.
Before you lament the near-lock pro-abortion forces have in the Senate, Congress, the judiciary and the White House, remember that God values life. (Sorry Nancy Pelosi, abortion has always been considered the taking of a life in both Judaism and Christianity). And He hears our prayers. Church, we can change this.
William Wilberforce worked his entire public life to end slavery in Britain, and it took that long to accomplish his goal. Was it worth the ridicule and sacrifice? I suspect the multiple millions of descendants of slaves would say so. I suspect the Church would say so.
God doesn’t care much about our comfort, but He does care about how we help and value our fellow man. So get into the fight. Take a stand against this seemingly unconquerable giant. Offer help to girls with unplanned pregnancies. And expect unexpected victories in the battle.
I predict that one of the victories, an unintended consequence of the death of abortion will be a resurgence of civility, responsibility, and morality. I predict that, with the death of abortion, peace will prevail and the new contagion will be righteousness.
And I predict that with the death of abortion, mercifully, there will be no more headlines proclaiming evil that electrocutes the brain.
“Man Throws Baby From Car.”
My body reacts physically to incredible evil. Something happens when knowledge of the unspeakable hits my temporal lobe, the place where we all experience God in our brains.
A sensation not unlike electric shock shot down the back left side of my skull, just reading the headline. Later in the day, I heard someone on television say that the three-month old baby boy died.
A wasted life, literally thrown away.
Social commentators will spend some time analyzing why and how this happened, but the truth is that baby killing is contagious.
Nonsense, you may think. But is it really? I contend that baby killing is just as contagious as swine flu.
Malcolm Gladwell talked about what causes...
epidemics in his outstanding book, The Tipping Point. He gave as example an epidemic of suicide in Micronesia. Suicide, an individual act, should have no inherent ability to be contagious. But Gladwell argues that social rules govern actions like suicide, causing more suicides shortly after the first notable event.
History proves this is true for many destructive actions, such as school shootings. Educators and police braced themselves and publicly warned against copycats following events like the Virginia Tech massacre or Columbine.
Baby killing is no different. Only this time, the government of our country establishes the social rules by officially sanctioning baby killing.
Before you think this is nonsense, listen to Gladwell’s words on the epidemic of suicide: “The kind of contagion…isn’t something rational or even necessarily conscious. It’s not like a persuasive argument. It’s something much more subtle than that…The decision by someone famous to take his or her own life has the same effect: it gives other people, particularly those vulnerable to suggestion…permission to engage in a deviant act as well.”
The United States government decreed 36 years ago that abortion is legal. What group is more influential in the entire secular world than the US government?
And what has happened in these past 36 years? Those who are vulnerable to the suggestion that there is nothing wrong with abortion have had abortions. Those even more vulnerable to suggestion have unconsciously assimilated that no longer is this country about the right to life for every citizen, it is only about the right to life for those who are wanted, those who aren’t in the way.
And so, a precious baby boy, who just happened to be in the way of an impulsive unthinking man-child, is thrown to his death on an interstate.
Gladwell also writes that not only are we sensitive to the subtle suggestions made by the influential, but we are also sensitive to context. We are sensitive to the broken windows in our environment, and our behavior degrades in their presence.
We can ignore the broken window of abortion, and continue to see crimes like this and the rest of the incredible violence in our culture. Or, we can fix the problem of abortion, through concentrating our prayers, resources and voices against it.
Before you lament the near-lock pro-abortion forces have in the Senate, Congress, the judiciary and the White House, remember that God values life. (Sorry Nancy Pelosi, abortion has always been considered the taking of a life in both Judaism and Christianity). And He hears our prayers. Church, we can change this.
William Wilberforce worked his entire public life to end slavery in Britain, and it took that long to accomplish his goal. Was it worth the ridicule and sacrifice? I suspect the multiple millions of descendants of slaves would say so. I suspect the Church would say so.
God doesn’t care much about our comfort, but He does care about how we help and value our fellow man. So get into the fight. Take a stand against this seemingly unconquerable giant. Offer help to girls with unplanned pregnancies. And expect unexpected victories in the battle.
I predict that one of the victories, an unintended consequence of the death of abortion will be a resurgence of civility, responsibility, and morality. I predict that, with the death of abortion, peace will prevail and the new contagion will be righteousness.
And I predict that with the death of abortion, mercifully, there will be no more headlines proclaiming evil that electrocutes the brain.
