Hard to argue with

Chris Tollefsen writes:

Augustine pointed out that the faith, to truly succeed in the world, must succeed by being believed. And how, he asked “can there be any believing one who thinks it is sometimes right to lie, lest he haply lie at the moment when he teaches us to believe?”

Why is this thought of Augustine’s applicable to the pro-life cause? Isn’t it enough that our tactics stop abortions from happening? No, it is not. To truly be in the service of life, our movement cannot be satisfied with anything less than a culture of life, and such a culture can only be founded on a commitment to the truth about the humanity of the unborn, and a commitment to love unborn human beings just as we love ourselves and our neighbors.

But how can that lesson be taught, how can we bring a culture of life to the world, if we are willing to lie for it?

Yup. All–and I mean all–the Church has to offer in the end is faith. It is by faith we are saved. It is by faith we believe that Jesus Christ is God, was raised from the dead, and offers us the hope of eternal life. It is by faith we have hope and love, including the love of the unborn who are, apart from the vision of faith, biological organisms of no more significance than the mold on a petri dish. To entrust the message of faith to a strategem of lying is beyond folly.