Imagine the Potential
I love this video:
What are your thoughts?
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Evelyn’s Gotcha Slideshow
Here are some of our pictures from our trip. We still plan on writing more very soon, hopefully next week. Special thanks to Zach Cheatham for the airport pictures.
Josiah’s Gotcha Slideshow
I can’t believe we get to do this again. Even though this is our second adoption, it’s still frightening, as I assume it would be the third, fourth, or fifth time. It’s always scary to step out in faith into the unknown. But what we DO know is that God is, has been, and will [...]
Our Family Mission
Mary Beth and I sat down last night to design our Family Mission Statement together. It took us a while to come up with an idea, but Mary Beth was the one who decided to use verbs to define how we wanted our family to be. We both sat at the computer for a little [...]
I find it humorous that this commercial makes its own reverse point depending on who is watching it. It says to both the man who does not support Obama and the man who does, abortion would have robbed us of this future. While I find this humorous, I also think the concept is important to grasp. Abortion is not wrong because it robs humanity of a given “Potential”. Following that line of argument would provide no justification for why Hitler shouldn’t have been aborted. More frightening still, it leads to eugenics (saying one shouldn’t kill people because they have the possibility to do something great, begs the question, what about people one knows will not do anything great, but instead will do harm).
No, rather our justification for denouncing abortion must be stronger. It must go beyond the personality of the human being and stick to the fact that abortion goes against the laws of God. This argument, of course, only works for those who fear God and His laws.
Finally, I find the commercial itself insulting. Using a commercial, for one, belittles the argument by putting it in a medium that people are expecting entertainment from. Also, piggy-backing on Obama for support just rubs me the wrong way. I’m not sure if it’s the fact that usually there is an appeal to God instead of the President’s greatness. Or, possibly, it’s the fact that the Church, for the most part, opposed Obama and now we’re jumping on the band wagon for how great he is.
Quick clarification, I did not mean for that to be disrespectful. The Church should respect Obama because he is the president. However, I draw a line between respect and celebration.