Save the Trees....Kill the Children

While shopping at Wal-Mart earlier today, I came upon a large display of t-shirts with pictures and slogans that were all about loving and saving Earth. One such shirt in particular was decorated with a forest of trees and read "Save Our Future". I became agitated, even a bit angry when I saw this shirt. Here's why. First, I want to make clear that I do believe that God has given the earth to man as a stewardship, and that we are to do what we can to take care of God's creation. However, it is mankind that was created in the image of God, not these other parts of creation. So, what about our own kind? What about the hundreds of thousands of unborn babies that are heedlessly slaughtered every year? Are they not the future that we should be giving our lives to save? If we continue killing off our babies, there will be no one left to save the trees! As Casting Crowns has so wisely put it in their song While You Were Sleeping, "We're sung to sleep by philosophies that save the trees and kill the children." America cares more about trees, which have no soul, than about these little ones that, from the moment of conception, have a soul that is immortal. This is why these "Save the Earth" t-shirts make me angry. Not because I think taking care of the earth is a waste of time. But because our priorities are so mixed up. In some parts of Florida, it is illegal to even accidentally hit an alligator with your car. But a woman can go and have her unborn baby murdered...and no one can stop her. The Pledge of Allegiance to our flag states that we are "one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for ALL". This is no longer true. There is not liberty and justice for all people. There is more justice for trees than for little baby boys and girls. I don't understand this philosophy at all, and I am quite certain that I never will. All I can do is pray that God will arise and send forth justice for the unborn and mercy for those who are killing them.