Welcome to Every Thought Captive, I’m Phil Steiger.
An advice columnist on Slate.com recently advised a reader who was in her 30s and recently married that she may want to reconsider her position on having children. Before she was married she didn’t want any, and now she and her husband were considering it. The backlash to that advice was vitriolic. Angry readers wrote the advice columnist and, “expressed contempt for those deluded enough to want to reproduce.”
This is one of those worldview moments when we clearly see the differences between a self-absorbed point of view informed by Darwinistic Naturalism, and one influenced by a Christian ethic and view of human nature. The angry childless readers were happy with their lives full of self-indulgent pleasures. The columnist wrote that though they saw parenthood has a mountain of diapers, they would never understand the daily and overwhelming joy of being a parent. Following Christ means we appreciate the value of all human life, even ones that may vomit on the carpet.
This has been Every Thought Captive. I’m Phil Steiger pastor at Quail Lake Community Church and Director of Dayspring Center for Christian Studies. For more information, please visit everythoughtcaptive.org.
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