Postman
I sent out the following message to our family’s prayer list in April 2008:
A little internet research just turned up an interesting factoid. The combined American casualties in World Wars I and II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Civil War, the Revolutionary War, the Mexican-American War (of 1846-1848), the first Gulf War, and the War of 1812 are estimated to be 1,372,678 [1]. Almost exactly the same number of Americans were killed by abortion in the year 1996 alone (est. 1,370,000 deaths, see [2])!
Gosh, there’s lot of interesting stuff on the internet isn’t there?
Hmm, I could really use a snack. Hope we’ve still got some of that peanut butter and banana bread left.
Hey, Happy Easter everybody! The weather sure has been nice out here in Longmont.
Zach
PS
[1] Wikipedia contributors, “United States casualties of war,” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=United_States_casualties_of_war&oldid=294166076 (accessed June 3, 2009).
[2] Facts on Induced Abortion in the United States, Guttmacher Institute.
One friend responded to this message telling me that when he read it he was disgusted by my transition from the first part of the message to the second. I told him I was delighted to hear of his disgust. That was precisely the intention. In our contemporary TV age, we have become far too accustomed to allowing our minds to transition from heavy, life-and-death matters to triviality in literally a flash (e.g. the flash of the screen cutting from world news to a commercial break). For more on the dangers of flippancy, see my post And Now This! But please, when all is said and done, forget everything else I’ve said and remember the 1.37 million. Remember the 1.37 million, remember the 9 wars including two world wars, and let the enormity of the abortion Holocaust sink in!!!