Regarding the now-notorious “a lot of people want liver” video, revealing that the sale of organs from unborn humans killed at Planned Parenthood affiliates is commonplace, one blogger writes:

If the First Lady of the United States could say 8 years ago that for the first time in her adult life she was proud of her country, then I suppose I can say that for the first time in my adult life I’m ashamed of my country. If the price of being publicly loyal to it pretending that I’m basically okay with sharing a national identity with the people who have allowed this monstrosity to continue unchecked since 1973, or that my disagreements with people who are okay with the sale of baby parts are “mere politics,” then count me out of this ridiculous charade. [ea]

Here is where Christians will have to show a more excellent way. We must say, not “count me out,” but “count us in.”

There is nothing in America today that even comes close to the darkness and evil of the first-century Roman Empire. Killing babies? Check! They killed them not only in the womb but out. “Exposure” of infants for any and every purpose, including if you got a girl when you wanted a boy, was routine. Selling human flesh? Check! We call that “slavery” and it was also routine, including the most barbarous mistreatments.

Yet Paul did not say “count me out.” He said, “I am a citizen by birth.” We must say the same.

Confronted by a mob seeking approval for its own evil, he said, “We also are men, of like nature with you.” We must say the same.

We must keep our holiness, but God’s holiness is a loving holiness, just as his love is a holy love. God was not ashamed to join himself, in the person of his son, to this dark and evil world. He did it at the cost of literally infinite suffering. Shame on us if we are ashamed to join ourselves, at the cost of far less suffering, to our own civil communities.