A listener by the name of John writes into ask of this, pastor John, can we reasonably

draw moral parallels between abortion in America and the extermination of Jews by Nazis

in World War II?

There are non-parallels and there are parallels, and it might be good just to name a few,

because evidently the question is coming out of a sense of there are people that get

upset about this correlation and there are other people who feel it's natural.

So let me try to, let me try to get inside the skin of both people.

There are non-parallels.

The Holocaust was overwhelmingly a hatred of Jewish people, not only, but overwhelmingly

a hatred of an ethnic group and a religious group.

This is generally not the case with the unborn.

The unborn are killed across all ethnicities and religions.

Secondly, there's a non-parallel in that the Holocaust was carried out mainly by one nation,

while babies are being killed in every nation of the world.

There's a non-parallel in that the Holocaust was mainly carried out on mature, rationally

aware human beings, rather than pre-rational babies, and so the horror of contemplating

their end was vastly greater for those who were killed in the Holocaust.

There's a non-parallel in the Holocaust in that the Holocaust had a beginning and had an end,

though ethnic persecution, of course, hasn't ended while the killing of babies goes on.

So those are a few, and I'm sure there are more that we, if you just spent time, we could

think of the non-parallels, but here are the parallels that I think are, in fact, completely

valid. One, there's a parallel that both involve precious human beings created in the image

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