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[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Gregg Cunningham, Executive Director of the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform writes:
“William Wilberforce used deeply disturbing artists’ renderings to depict the unimaginable privations of slavery. Photographs of children being mistreated in mines and mills and factories finally turned the public against child labor abuses after years of futile speeches and essays had been roundly ignored.
When Christians ask “Would Jesus use bloody pictures to make His point?” it is important to bear in mind that our Lord controlled every aspect of his arrest, trial and execution. He arranged to have Himself beaten nearly to death before stumbling through the most crowed part of Jerusalem on the most crowded day of the year. His bloody body horrified throngs of Passover pilgrims — which included large numbers of families with young children.
He then permitted himself to be stripped naked and tortured to death in full view of still more passersby, including more children. The Romans used executions to intimidate subjugated peoples. They located crucifixion cites conspicuously for maximum public exposure. Our Lord accommodated Cesar by going out of His way to make the disturbing spectacle of His death as public as possible. And in the process, He chose as the very symbol of our faith, a bloody instrument of torture. His point was to disturb us with the gravity of our sin but bless us with the grace of His forgiveness, despite the fact that many children would be traumatized in the process. I don’t believe we err in following His example.
Ephesians 5:11, says we are to “Expose the deeds of darkness.” When we hide the horror of great evils, we empower those who commit those evils. We make more vulnerable those who are victimized by those evils.”
When I use graphic imagery to expose abortion, it is not because I am “a sick christian” as I have been accused of but because I care more about the lives of unborn children then I do about the feelings of born people. I certainly don’t want to offend people, but if it’s between that and saving a baby’s life than I choose the baby’s life. I am simply using the same techniques in exposing this injustice as William Wilberforce, Martin Luther King Jr., the abolitionists of child labor and even animal rights activists use to expose theirs. The media and news has also understood the importance of graphic imagery and often use it to inform the public of what is happening.
I love people and I love being around people and certainly don’t enjoy upsetting people but when the life of a precious unborn human person is at stake than I will go to great risks to ensure that that baby lives and that the life of the mother is cared for.
Furthermore, I am also often bashed verbally on facebook for posting photos of aborted fetus’s but I have reason to believe that at least one abortion may have been avoided due to the pictures seen by one of my friends from high school and who knows what other babies may have been saved and minds that were changed because many men and women choose not to talk about a topic such as abortion due to its controversial and sensitive nature. I have also had many Christian friends tell me that they had no idea that “that” (the pictures) was what abortion really was and they were very grateful to know what the word “abortion” really meant and what it does to a living baby.
I’ll leave you with this question. What is one major injustice that has happened where the social reformer(s) and those speaking out and standing up against the injustice were liked at the time by the masses? Have Social Reformers ever been loved when they were doing their work? I can’t think of any, in fact MLK was shot and killed for what he did, as was Dietrich Bonhoeffer.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]
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