By Judie Brown
We know that faith is a gift from God—“a supernatural virtue infused by Him.” But a person can believe something that is contrary to God’s commandments and feel that their view is correct. This is the tragedy that befalls too many in the secular world around us.
A good example of this is seen in the article about President Donald Trump, who told his wife Melania to “write what you believe” about abortion in her new book. Her views on abortion seem to be at odds with those of her husband, but a deeper look always reveals the truth. Neither of them appears to see the fact that every abortion kills someone.
This is typical in a political correctness sense, not to mention a descriptive sense, regarding the national attitude on abortion. This deadly act has become noncontroversial, and from the baby’s perspective, this is a horrific fact of life.
Some might describe the national conversation about abortion as nothing more than word salad, and there is legitimacy to that view. When those in positions of authority use language that obfuscates the truth about the victim who dies during an abortion, we see clearly that America is at a crossroads. And the babies are being leveled like roadway litter in the process.
This is why self-managed abortions are on the rise. People are trying to do it themselves simply because they cannot tolerate the idea of pregnancy. Sound silly? Perhaps, but it is a trend.
In Texas, a woman who was jailed for inducing her own abortion because the state had legally restricted access to abortion is now suing the state!
The truth regarding what an abortion is and why it should be illegal has become obliterated. As a society we have forgotten the basic facts about what constitutes the truth about where babies come from. Society prefers, instead, to believe that pregnancy is nothing more than a solvable problem similar to the common cold or a hangnail.
So when Trump tells his wife to write in her book what she believes, he is suggesting to her, and by extension the nation, that the reality of human personhood is a matter of opinion. This is the beginning of the slippery slope, as documented in several places. But one insight is worth repeating here: “‘The slippery slope’ doesn’t frighten very many people in Washington because that’s where a lot of politicians live. Life can be comfortable there, and it’s usually quite profitable. But it’s a dangerous piece of real estate for the rest of us.”
It is indeed most dangerous for the preborn, the elderly, and the infirm. This is so because, as Trump said to his wife, it is what you believe that matters, regardless of the facts of life, including the basic question of a preborn child’s human rights. When politics erases facts and replaces them with opinions, anything goes, including the baby who dies in the rhetorical disposal of political thought.
We cringe at the truth of this, but we also have to be ever present in our role as fact tellers. We are the unpopular people who cannot keep silent in the middle of a bloodbath disguised as a matter of choice.
This is why I love the words of commentator David Warren, who recently reminded us that “the statement of any of the multiple elements of the Christian creeds, and their application to ‘real world’ questions (such as baby-killing or abortion), is an example of the ‘badass’ approach, which will draw criticism from many of our contemporaries, including most bourgeois Christians, and the Catholic ones.”
But hey! We are badass Christians! We will never fail to tell the truth, and that truth is never a matter of personal belief, opinion, or irrationality. Thank God for that. Believe it!