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On billboards and feeling unsettled

We were driving back from northern Minnesota on Monday, and along the first stretch of our drive through a series of small lakes and small towns, we also drove through a series of faith-laden billboards. One of them simply said "God Loves You" in some seriously fancy script. Cool. Unfortunately, it was followed by two or three pro-life, anti-abortion billboards. Let me say, from the get-go, that I despise the culture of anti-abortion advertising and maneuvering. Let me also say from the get-go that I am usually very quiet about my opinions on this matter. If I had to define myself, I guess I'd say that I live with a pretty expansive pro-all-life ideology. Meaning that I value life in all forms. So if you pushed me, I'd want there to be fewer abortions rather than more abortions...but I also really want wars to stop and guns to be controlled and violence to end and the death penalty to be revoked. And if you really really pushed me to put a more political bo