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Letter to the Editor: Have you ever seen a pretty picture of a murder?
By Pastor Matt Trewhella
Why do we show those bloody photographs?
We were on campus last Tuesday, and this is why:
We do it because people need to see what a child looks like after he or she has been in the hands of an abortionist at a Planned Parenthood clinic. Without the pictures, the words which describe what they do to the preborn lack punch and are easily forgotten.
After 35 years of State-legal baby-murder, it is time for the American people to see who is dying. The media has censored the preborn child from the "abortion debate," and we are simply attempting to bypass that media blackout by going to the streets and showing the American people for themselves exactly what a preborn child murdered by abortion looks like.
We show these photos to inform our nation that it has violated God's Law, and to call its people to repentance. Our photos stand as a haunting indictment upon our nation. Some say our photos are disgusting and hurt our Christian witness. Our response: Have you ever seen a pretty picture of a murder? Murder is disgusting. Abortion is murder. Therefore, our pictures are disgusting.
Also, what hurts our Christian witness more: being silent while our neighbor is unjustly killed, or exposing the evil works of darkness [Ephesians 5:11] by showing the atrocities being committed against our neighbor? We think it is the former that does the most damage. What a pathetic people we are if we want to tolerate the oppression of an entire people group, but then become outraged when someone displays the suffering of that people group.
At the end of WWII, our American soldiers marched the citizens of Germany past the remains of those who died in the death camps. They marched men, women and children past the remains. Why did they do it? Because those citizens all stood guilty for having tolerated the atrocities that went on in their midst. So it is in America today, where we all stand guilty for being silent while this atrocity goes on in our nation.
May people be moved with compassion for the helpless preborn when they see these photographs, and may they act to see this bloodshed outlawed. Otherwise, God will use His sword of justice and bring retribution upon a nation of people whose hands are covered with blood.
Separated unto the Gospel, Pastor Matt Trewhella www.missionariestopreborn.com
> Comments
Margot on Oct 08, 2008 at 10:53 AM:
Load of crock.
HK on Oct 08, 2008 at 01:12 PM:
Margot you are a douchebag.
Mark on Oct 09, 2008 at 12:41 AM:
Religion is a hoax.
http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/
Johanan on Oct 09, 2008 at 03:27 PM:
"Religion is a hoax."
Which has precisely nothing to do with the underlying issue here.
Steph Bartell on Oct 11, 2008 at 02:38 PM:
Well I may disagree with your political and religious beliefs, I sincerely respect them. It takes great courage to be able to stand up in a public forum and share with people what you stand for.