Following a link from Dr. White’s blog, I read this article about abortion in New York City. This got me to thinking. Why is it that Leftists normally support animal rights, but they have no problem with abortion? Why is it that you can save the whales but not the unborn?
I think perhaps the answer is found in Romans 1. We read:
“For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles” (Romans 1:21-23).
So why is it that people would want to exault fuzzy animals while killing off unborn humans? Could it be because mankind is created in the image of God, and thus to denegrate man is yet another way (an underhand way, perhaps a subliminal unconscious way) of trying to denegrate God Himself? In other words, to mar the image of God and to treat it as less than the worth of the animals is to say that animals (created beings) are of higher value than that which is created in the image of the uncreated God. It is simply yet another means by which men can exchange the glory of the immortal with the things that are created.
Naturally, if you take this argument as implying that mankind is basically divine you have misunderstood this post. I am not saying that men are gods. However, consider the depravity and the hatred of the one who would stoop so low as to not only ignore God, but to also denegrate His image. This is truly the state that we are in.
So save the whales (collect the whole set, only $19.95!) if you must. But remember that humans are worth more because they are created in the image of the Almighty Lord. Forgetting this, our depravity will only increase as we are given even further into the reprobate spirit.
