To Build Pro-Life Culture, Christians Must Address Culture of ‘Self’: Evangelical

Jan 26, 2018 by Jill

Brandon Showalter , CP:

Building a culture that values life will be a “100-year project” that requires Christians to address our “protection of self” society, said prominent evangelical Russell Moore.

And promoting that culture of life means equally valuing the unborn as well as the elderly, immigrants and refugees, the poor, the vulnerable, and women, he stressed while speaking at Evangelicals for Life 2018.

Before hundreds assembled Thursday at the J.W. Marriott Hotel in downtown Washington, several speakers stressed the importance for Christians to articulate a value for life at every stage. Particular emphasis was given to the unborn as conference attendees participated in the March for Life Friday, the largest annual pro-life gathering in the nation. The conference was sponsored by Focus on the Family and the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, the policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention.

“The overturning of Roe v. Wade is necessary for justice but the overturning of Roe v. Wade does not by itself constitute justice,” said Moore, president of the ERLC in an interview with The Christian Post.

Overturning the contentious 1973 case that legalized abortion nationwide would simply send the matter back to the states and culture, he pointed out.

“But we also have to be working at dealing with the root of the problem as well. It’s a both/and not an either/or,” he said, mentioning a feminist leader and abortion rights advocate whose words haunt him; this feminist leader once said that “most Americans are pro-life with three exceptions: rape, incest, and my situation.”

“When one looks around and sees the culture in American life of the self and of protection of self it inevitably leads to an abortion culture. We have to address that as well,” Moore said, adding that “this is not a four- or five-year project. This is going to have to be a 100-year project.”

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