If you want children to speak read or write English you start teaching them when they are VERY young. They will go through 13 years of schooling (K-12). They will regularly take tests, and each new lesson builds on previous things taught. If you want them to be proficient at math or science or any other subjects, you teach them in a comprehensive way. This is as common sense as it gets.
Why then do Christian school/education systems that are under the mantel of those denominations that profess to be “Pro-Life” not TEACH the sanctity of life. Why hasn’t the pro-life movement caught on in the 30+ years of this holocaust!? I challenge anyone to show where this is not a powerful way to destroy the culture of death.
I agree with the premise of promoting "the culture of life" however I think promoting this culture goes far, far beyond anti-abortion viewpoint.
For one example, children need to be taught in a gender-equal way that new human life is created by a man AND woman, and that BOTH are responsible for their offspring's existence and welfare. Inequality breeds inequality. In particular, any inequality presented to girls WILL be percieved as unfair, and make them vulnerable to adopting the pro-choice viewpoint later in life.
Just as children instinctively understand the value of life, they also understand the basic concepts of justice and equality. If we are saying ALL life is of equal value, we cannot then turn around and promote that some people are more responsible than others for the consequences of their actions.
The "culture of life" has to embody the concept of equal personal responsibility as an irrefutable moral premise.
Would like your thoughts on this. Is this a good or bad concept?