With a one-minute look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with

the point.

Recently, Joe Scarborough suggested that because abortion was common in the Roman world,

and Jesus never said anything about it, he must have been pro-abortion.

When that same reasoning is applied to any other moral issue, it's obvious just how ridiculous

it is.

Jesus never said anything about slavery or torture or the sexual abuse of children,

so he must have been for all those things? Look, the argument from silence simply does not work,

and it ignores historical fact. The Jews in Jesus' day all opposed abortion, as both the

testimony of the Talmud and the Roman critics of the Jews attest. Jesus did not address abortion because it wasn't an issue among Jews in the Holy Land.

But from its earliest days, the church did address abortion, starting with the Didiak, one of

the oldest surviving Christian documents outside the New Testament.

Wherever abortion has been practiced, the church has condemned it, we have to continue to

do that today.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.