There are three main things I remember about 1984; I graduated from a tiny Bible College in rural Florida, our first child was born and I read my first book by Francis Schaeffer.  The book was written in 1979 but I didn’t have it until 1984.  The title was, “Whatever Happened to the Human Race?”  Even though abortion had been legal since 1973 I don’t remember thinking about it very much until I read that book.  I didn’t know anyone who had been to an abortion clinic and I never heard of a Crisis Pregnancy Center.  I grew up in church and I’m sure it was mentioned but it didn’t register with me for some reason.  What struck me about Schaeffer’s book was the way he unveiled the bigger problem.  Abortion, as evil as it is, is actually a symptom of a much bigger problem.  I suppose one of the reasons I don’t remember wrestling with the abortion issue earlier was my upbringing.  I believed human life had value and the taking of it was obviously wrong, who would argue with that?  However, I had a well formed presupposition that God was God and what He said was truth.  The problem, I learned, was that there was a significant presupposition that many people held opposite to that.  Schaeffer referred to it as “humanism---man as the measure of all things.”   Once God is removed, true-truth is removed, absolutes crumble and objective, transcendent reality is jettisoned in favor of a so called social morality.  In other words, society determines what is right and wrong.  Thus, values change with the majority.  Humanism is the presupposition for the acceptance of abortion as a “life-choice.”  We are seeing the effects of this drift today.  A Supreme Court that abandons objective reality redefines “humanity,” “marriage,” and even “gender.”  Culturally, we are drifting further and further from the Judeo-Christian ethic once espoused by the majority of the people in this country.  Valuing human life is right when the majority agrees and when it doesn’t!  Even though we are outnumbered and over half of the Supreme Court has “checked out” from reality, truth remains truth.  The taking of human life is still wrong.  Marriage between a man and woman is still the only right version and men should be men and women should be women as God designed.  How we respond to the culture of humanism is the question.  What kind of people must we become to be salt and light in this madness?  This is the invitation of Jesus…more about that on Sunday.