Happy Easter!
I hope you’ve been enjoying the team’s thoughts leading up to our big ride! Tonight, I want to share a few thoughts that Danny McShane, Taylor Caputo, and I were talking about the other day.
And it is something that I’m going to call The Viral Power of Good.
Countless times, we’ve heard in conversations with friends… “Geez, I can’t imagine that people used to think slavery was okay…” or “Can you believe that only men used to be able to vote…”
What’s interesting here, is not so much the fact that we hope one day people will think the same about abortion, but rather this…
Imagine if the alternate scenario had transpired in history’s moral conflicts… if people today instead said, “Can you believe there was a time that people used to think that civil rights for all was acceptable?” or “Can you believe there was a time they nearly allowed women to vote?”
There is something about the inherent nature of these questions being absurd; to ask such a question, virtually 100% of the population would need to believe whole-heartedly in the injustice of civil rights or women’s suffrage…
Maybe my thinking this is merely a product of my contemporary perspective; I’ll leave your opinion on this thought up to you.
Consider the issue of life in this context though… “Can you believe that people used to think that not allowing abortions was okay?” In this context, virtually 100% of people would have to believe that, not only is abortion okay, but a good thing.
It’s crazy, don’t you think?
Consider our hopeful outcome, then, that some time from now, people will ask… “Can you believe that they used to allow abortions in this country?”
There’s something about that that just doesn’t seem quite so ridiculous. It actually does seem possible, right?
So, I think that’s the case, because of this “viral power of good”–the same thing that civil rights and women’s suffrage have, the same thing which ultimately made them take hold in each person’s heart.
Then, the question becomes, “How do we capture that? How do we share that?”
I suppose we approach it in the same way those who believed in equal rights for all people back then did…
We ought to take intentional steps to be a part of pro-life work.
Sometimes, I can get uncomfortable about taking more intentional steps, whatever those might be because I don’t want to be so “political” about something so important as life.
But, what can I say to myself… except reflect on those things about life which are not political… family, friends, faith, beauty, music…
And I think to myself, ironically, those are the very things that most threatened by something so “political” as abortion.