Pro-Life Hypocrisy

A couple of days ago I posted this sentence as my Facebook status, “Eric is saying if you’re Pro-Life you should be Pro-Life in every aspect. This means anti-death penalty, ANTI-WAR, and anti-assisted suicide.”  I got a lot of response from it; some agreeing, some disagreeing and some confused on whether this view is Democrat or Republican.  To me, it’s neither Democrat nor Republican, it’s Christian.

 

I personally believe it’s hypocritical to be Pro-Life and not against the rest of these issues I listed.  Genesis 1:26a says, “Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness…”  and Genesis 1:27 says, “So God created humankind in His own image, in the image of God He created them; male and female He created them.”  Life has value not because a person is good or bad but because that life (every life) is created in God’s image.  It doesn’t matter if you’re a baby, a serial killer, a dictator, a Christian, a Muslim, a senior citizen, “The Enemy”, an atheist or a friend.  But let’s put some faces on the image of God; Sudom Husain, George W. Bush,  Britney Spears, Joe the Plumber, Timothy McVay, Osama bin Laden, Bono, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Paul Newman, Adolf Hitler, John McCain, or Martin Luther King Jr.  These people were all, whether you like them or not, created in God’s image.

 

Some people are pretty upset about the new movie W. because director Oliver Stone, who is known to be very liberal, presented President George W. Bush as a real human being with struggles that we should sympathize with.  I agree that George W. Bush is a horrible president but he’s still a human being and I applaud Oliver Stone for presenting him as one.  I think we loose sight of truly following the way Jesus when we stop looking at people as created in God’s image and start seeing them as something else.  Shane Claiborne says in his book Jesus for President, “If you want to see the image of God, look in a mirror.”  I agree with that statement, but I would add, “or look at the person sitting next to you on the bus.”

 

David Bazan sings in his song Backwoods Nation sarcastically, “Calling all rednecks to put down their sluggers. And turn their attention from beating the buggers. To pick up machine guns and kill camelfuckers, backwoods nation.”  I find it interesting that some (not all) of these people that want to kill these so called “camelfuckers” are some of the same people that are Pro-Life.  I just don’t understand it.  Especially, when Jesus said in Matthew 5:44, “But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you…” and the writer of Proverbs 25:21-22 says, “If your enemies are hungry, give them bread to eat; and if they are thirsty, give them water to drink; for you will heap coals of fire on their heads, and the LORD will reward you.”  I don’t believe it’s our job to kill “good” or “bad” people.  I believe it’s our job to love them and see them as a creation of God, in His image.  This is one man’s opinion, what do you guys/girls think?