Slavery, Racism, Eugenics, Communism and Abortion

Our culture once accepted slavery. Some even thought slavery was necessary to the survival of our union. Our country was formed with a compromise position on slavery built in to the Constitution. Now only backwards cultures practice slavery. Now we know better.

Our culture once accepted racism. Organizations like the Ku Klux Klan were not so taboo many years ago. To wit, we even have a Democrat Senator who was a high-ranking member of that illustrious organization. Our culture is so hyper-sensitive to racism that it is now only acceptable to acknowledge racial distinctions when the result is to lampoon a white male, and occasionally Asians. Now we know better.

Our culture once accepted eugenics. Prominent members of society, including US Presidents, supported the idea of selective breeding to weed out genetic imperfections in the human race. It was only after the world witnessed the horrors of the Nazis taking the movement to its logical conclusion that those same people balked. Now history covers up that part of our past. Now we know better.

Our culture once accepted communism. While relegated to a minority of people, those espousing communist views felt free to voice them and even use the “c” word to describe themselves. Once the world saw the results of the failed experiment known as the USSR, communists went into hiding. They now refer to themselves as environmentalists. We haven’t quite learned our lesson.

Now we have abortion. This practice has gone from being considered scandalous to being considered a sacrament, or at least a rite of passage. What horrors will the world have to witness before we learn our lesson? 50 years from now, will you look back and see how foolish our culture was? Will you not see how abortion is worse than all of the previous errors?

We are not nearly as enlightened as we like to think we are. In fact, humanity gets more and more barbarous as technology provides us more efficient ways to kill each other. Christ’s kingdom will eventually triumph. The least we could do is to help bring that about. Humanism is perverse. Christ is the only way to human progress.

To my Christian brothers and sisters: If you had lived in any of these prior time periods, would you have adapted your convictions to the culture? Are Biblical truths and values eternal, or do they apply only insofar as match the contemporary culture? Societal approval did not make slavery, racism, eugenics and communism moral. Nor does societal approval make abortion moral. Do not adapt to the culture, but transform it.