National Hypocrisy!

Sorry to be a downer this week, but I have to address our national hypocrisy about life.

In his address to the nation at the memorial service for the victims of the senseless shooting in Arizona this past week, our President stated in that he wants everyone to “sharpen our instincts for empathy” towards others.

A great idea, but it seems to me that as a nation we have succeeded in dulling our empathy for the unborn and their parents over the past 38 years through legalized abortion with the full ascent of the government. Because we kill over 4,500 pre-born citizens each day, our nation needs to take the “log out of its own eye” [Matthew 7] before we start searching for and casting blame at one group or the other.

The 9-year-old little girl (and others) who died in that senseless act of violence were given the chance to live and someone took it away – what a waste of the natural resource of lives created in the image of God! This week all eyes were focused on the carnage in Arizona, while the carnage of governmentally sanctioned abortion continues across the country, day in and day out! These humans are destroyed not by chance with stray bullets, but by choice with surgically accuracy! Abortion deaths continue, hidden and discounted.

When will be wake up and realize that ALL human life is sacred!? Our hearts should ache, not only for those already-born humans who die in horrendously public and reprehensible ways, but for every life lost!