Missing the Missed Point, part 1

Keely Emerine-Mix makes some good points in What's the Point, Anyway? but she also offers too many huge targets for me to resist the urge to blast away at some of the more egregious problems, so here goes --

First, before moving on to point out what she considers to be the deepest problem of all, she gives examples of things that she feels represent some of the most serious errors of American Christianity in the past half century:

• Slowness in getting on the Civil Rights bandwagon
• Giving too much influence to folks like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson
• Equating of Republican Party politics with God's politics
• Failure to address materialism, greed, bigotry, indifference to the poor, accommodation of the culture, and militarism
• Focus on fighting "sins of the bedroom" such as abortion and gay rights

Okay, from my perspective that's a mixed bag of grievances but regarding that last one, pardon me? Since when has abortion been a "sin of the bedroom"? The sin of the bedroom was fornication. The phenomenon of abortion that we are looking at here is murder, plain and simple. And as a societal phenomenon it is mass murder, to the tune of more than 50 million dead (and counting). To call it a sin of the bedroom is to lie. The idea is that sins of the bedroom are between two consenting parties and as "victimless crimes" they really should be nobody's business, but nobody asked any of the babies if they wanted to be murdered. For a Christian to talk that way is particularly disgusting. Some champion of the poor, the weak, the downtrodden, and the disenfranchised! Talk about accommodation of the culture!

She describes the opposition to abortion as "horrific" and says it manifests a "lack of Christlike love" and results in "very real, very painful blows inflicted on society in Christ's name."

Wow.

Okay, I'm going to have to stop there for now and resume in the next post, but just think about that for a while. To my ears those sound like the words of a moral monster. I suppose I shouldn't be, but I can't help being amazed that she could think such things, let alone say them, but if people were incapable of thinking like that, we wouldn't have the blood of 50 million babies on our hands, would we? It just goes to show how much inhumanity to man we become able to tolerate once we deny the full humanity of any group of people. It's scary -- in a fallen world, this is the human condition.