Facing the "Culture of Death"

Inspired by Pastor Allen's frequent quotations from Peter Kreeft, I am now reading his book, How to Win the Culture War. In the first chapter, he points out that not long after Ronald Reagan had the chutzpah to call the Soviet Union
"The Evil Empire," Pope John Paul II prophetically called this generation "The Culture of Death." This is cetainly reflected in the discussions we have been having on abortion and euthanasia in the Manhattan Declaration class.

Here is Kreeft's commentary on "the culture of death":

"If the God of life does not respond to this culture of death with judgment, then God is not God. If God does not honor the blood of the hundreds of millions of innocent victims of this culture of death, then the God of the Bible, the God of Abraham, the God of Israel, the God of the prophets, the God of widows and orphans, the Defender of the defenselss, is a man-made myth, an ideal as insubstantial as a dream."

Naturally, Kreeft believes that God is God, and spells out the terms of engagement in our war with the culture of death.

My concern is not that God will fail to judge the culture of death, but that many who have named the name of Christ will have compromised and wound up on the side being judged. May it not be so among us!