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While studying to be a pastor in college I abandoned my faith. In fact, I abandoned everything I thought I believed and rebuilt.

To my own surprise at the time, I found that Christianity was much stronger than I had thought. As I rebuilt my belief system, I realized that there needed to be people out there responding to the questions people have. I had them myself. So, while not continuing on to be a pastor, I have focused on educating people about what Christianity is all about and responding to the various charges and accusations made against it.

There are some obvious challenges to being successful in that capacity, but a big part of it consists not in arguing with atheists and skeptics, but rather in providing Christians with accurate information in the first place to prevent them from leaving the faith in the first place.

Questioning is a very normal and natural part of growing up, and I am convinced that it is not wrong to ask questions of God at any age. God doesn't strike people down. On the other hand, if people are going to reject Christianity, it is my aim to at least make sure they reject the real Christianity and not a false view of it. Also, much heartache can be avoided by educating Christians properly to begin with. My experience has helped me... but it was unnecessary.

Paul said that some plant, some water, and others reap the increase. My job is to go out into the land and move rocks- or break them if necessary- till the land, and struggle through knee deep fertilizer... all in the effort to allow those who come later to plant, water, and reap the harvest. I look forward to the prospects of either serving you as someone who needs to haul rocks out of the field, or as someone who can look at the field, detect problems, and help farmers more effectively plant, water, and reap.

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Randall Terry is Wrong, Choose Life is Not Pro Choice

Posted by Anthony on February 5, 2010

Randall Terry, a prominent pro-life activist released a press release a few minutes ago that says among other things,

“‘Choose life’ is a ‘pro-choice’ message; it presumes it is ethically and legally legitimate to choose murder.

This is nonsense.

I do agree with him that we have as an ultimate goal the end of legal abortion and also that the Tim Tebow ad will probably be fairly ‘warm and fuzzy’ but it doesn’t follow in the slightest that it is implicitly a pro-choice assumption.

My wife and I have a story very similar to the one that Terry is denouncing. He says,

“The ad will be warm and fuzzy; Mrs. Tebow will talk on camera about how her doctor advised her to abort her pregnancy because of health risks; she will say something like ‘I just knew I couldn’t do it; I was going to have this baby no matter what.’ She will refer to prayer or her faith.

It is the part where Mrs. Tebow says she “was going to have this baby no matter what” that is most similar to the situation with my wife and I. We were told that our daughter had spina bifida and were given the ‘option’ to ‘terminate.’ We declined. (Read more: http://www.wechoselife.com).

If Mr. Terry is to be believed, we made the absolute wrong decision, here. Since abortion was legal, there was no value to choosing life. By choosing life and refusing to take part in a silent holocaust, we were, in fact, presuming that it is ethical and legitimate to choose murder.

This is absurd; dare I say, it is stupid.

I said before that it is an ultimate goal that abortion on demand be outlawed. However, there is something to be said for the notion that we could make the law unnecessary by persuading people to… choose life. Obviously, that is not realistic: nor is it realistic to suppose that if we outlaw abortion, abortions will end.

You see, we definitely need both. We need to restore a respect for life in the law of the land but we also need to change hearts. Mr. Randall seems to think that a strategy of changing hearts is an ethical compromise- which is nonsense- but I do wonder how he hopes to change the laws without first changing hearts.

Seriously. Mr. Randall, you need to think about that. How is it that you want to make abortion illegal without a population containing a critical mass of people who believe we should choose life- even if the government is willing to allow you to do otherwise?

It is head splitting to imagine that in Randall Terry’s mind all these people who chose life actually were endorsing a pro-choice position. I wish I would have known that before. Maybe at the ultrasound we just would have said, “Ah well. We don’t want to legitimize the pro-choice perspective so I guess you just gotta kill her.”