When great evils arise in the course of human history and become legally sanctioned, socially normalized, and morally justified, Abolitionists are those who stand up and speak out against them. Abolitionists are those who adopt an uncompromising spirit in the face of prevailing injustices. Abolitionists are those who seek to expose evils for what they are and work diligently to bring about their lawful abrogation and cultural dissolution. As the term was defined succinctly by the nineteenth century abolitionist of slavery Thomas Clarkson: an abolitionist is someone who “undertakes the removal of evils.” Abortion is today’s great evil, and we aim to remove it!
Abolitionists embrace a certain bold posture in the face of evil and utterly reject the widely accepted, largely ignored, or complacently permitted injustices that most people choose to ignore. Abolitionists make a point of bringing darkness out into the light of day, or rather, of shining light in the darkness that is already there.
In the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Abolitionists like ourselves brought the evil of the British slave trade (man-stealing) and American chattel slavery (dehumanizing a person to the level of a beast) into conflict with the practice of true Christianity. Today we are seeking to bring the practice of human abortion (modern day child sacrifice) into full blown conflict with true Christianity. The first abolitionists were told to keep their moral and religious beliefs to themselves and rejected as impractical fools, zealots, and incendiary fanatics.
We hear the same thing today, but we believe that not to speak out against abortion when it is clearly believed to be an evil, is itself evil. And not to act against it, is to act for it.
We desire to shine as lights in this present darkness and make ourselves seen and heard in this apathetic culture of child-killing-tolerance and abortion-as-birth-control complacency. We are against the world, for the world; and though we live in the world, we do not orient our lives around its principles. We are not concerned with fitting in with those who think pre-born children are expendable and that we are not allowed to cry aloud for our neighbors who are being taken away to be slaughtered on an altar of convenience. We could not care less about being labeled fanatics and fundamentalists by those who think that scraping a baby into pieces is the key to female liberation or those who agree with us and call themselves “prolifers” yet remain far more interested in football and keeping up with reality television.
We believe that abortion is an abomination in the eyes of God and an injustice to the rights of man as made in His image. Toleration of abortion is utterly inconsistent with the revealed will of God. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is the center and purpose of our actions. We're abolitionists simply because we are Christians attempting to live consistently with Scripture.
Abolitionists embrace a certain bold posture in the face of evil and utterly reject the widely accepted, largely ignored, or complacently permitted injustices that most people choose to ignore. Abolitionists make a point of bringing darkness out into the light of day, or rather, of shining light in the darkness that is already there.
In the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Abolitionists like ourselves brought the evil of the British slave trade (man-stealing) and American chattel slavery (dehumanizing a person to the level of a beast) into conflict with the practice of true Christianity. Today we are seeking to bring the practice of human abortion (modern day child sacrifice) into full blown conflict with true Christianity. The first abolitionists were told to keep their moral and religious beliefs to themselves and rejected as impractical fools, zealots, and incendiary fanatics.
We hear the same thing today, but we believe that not to speak out against abortion when it is clearly believed to be an evil, is itself evil. And not to act against it, is to act for it.
We desire to shine as lights in this present darkness and make ourselves seen and heard in this apathetic culture of child-killing-tolerance and abortion-as-birth-control complacency. We are against the world, for the world; and though we live in the world, we do not orient our lives around its principles. We are not concerned with fitting in with those who think pre-born children are expendable and that we are not allowed to cry aloud for our neighbors who are being taken away to be slaughtered on an altar of convenience. We could not care less about being labeled fanatics and fundamentalists by those who think that scraping a baby into pieces is the key to female liberation or those who agree with us and call themselves “prolifers” yet remain far more interested in football and keeping up with reality television.
We believe that abortion is an abomination in the eyes of God and an injustice to the rights of man as made in His image. Toleration of abortion is utterly inconsistent with the revealed will of God. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is the center and purpose of our actions. We're abolitionists simply because we are Christians attempting to live consistently with Scripture.