Why is it in our culture that there is almost universal disgust at Michael Vick’s dog-killing, but at best only ambivalence toward the nearly 50 million unborn human babies that have been cruelly and legally killed in America since 1973? Only the most morally retrograde culture would be outraged by the former while thinking very little about the latter. God help us.
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Monday, August 17, 2009
Inconsistant Moral Outrage
Denny Burk asked a good question today:
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Because America has been doing wrong for SO LONG it has become RIGHT. The Bible tells us that in the last days this would happen. Those who walk in the light can see the difference between right and wrong but those in darkness (though it seems like light to them, Matt 6:22-23 also read Proverbs 4:18-19). It is heartbreaking to be able to see and knowing that the blind do not WANT to see. They prefer the darkness.
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