02/15/2026
Morning Rant On Evil of This World: The War On The Imago Dei
You know what absolutely wrecks me some mornings?
We live in a world where huge portions of our society are completely comfortable, even proud, to advocate for the annihilation of innocent lives in the womb, and then we act shocked when the Epstein files and everything like them show that innocent children, God’s image bearers, are being violated outside the womb.
Why are we surprised?
If we can look at a child in the womb and say, You are disposable, you are optional, you are an inconvenience, then we have already agreed with hell’s logic. We have already signed the permission slip for the devaluing of human life. The only difference between the child in the womb and the child on the island, on the street, on the screen, is location and visibility.
Same Imago Dei. Same innocence. Same spiritual enemy.
So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him, male and female He created them. (Genesis 1:27)
The Imago Dei, the image of God, is under full scale assault.
First, in the womb:
Not a person.
Just tissue.
Choice.
Then, outside the womb:
Groomed.
Used.
Trafficked.
Violated.
Discarded.
And we clutch our pearls and say, How could this happen?
It happens because we have been discipled for decades to see human life as negotiable.
It is the same evil entity running the whole show. The same serpent that whispered in Eden is whispering now: Did God really say?
Did God really say life is sacred?
Did God really say male and female?
Did God really say the body matters?
Did God really say children are a blessing and not a burden?
This is not just bad politics. This is not left versus right. This is the kingdom of God versus the kingdom of darkness.
The same demonic hatred of God that celebrates abortion is the same demonic hatred that fuels child exploitation, p**n, trafficking, grooming, and every other vile thing happening to children today. Different manifestations, same mastermind.
And then, to make it worse, we have got a whole culture manufacturing identity crisis and gender confusion. You are not who God says you are, you are whoever you feel like today. Your body is a costume, not a gift. Truth is whatever you declare it to be.
This is not liberation. This is satanic marketing. Confuse the image bearer, detach them from the Creator, and then use and discard them. That is the pattern.
The enemy does not care if he destroys the Imago Dei through a clinic, a camera, a classroom, a courtroom, or a culture. As long as he distorts, degrades, or destroys what looks like God, he is pleased.
And Christians, we need to stop acting like we are dealing with a minor difference of opinion. This is spiritual war.
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age. (Ephesians 6:12)
Our enemy is not the confused teenager, not the woman pressured into abortion, not even the activist who is shouting the loudest. The enemy is the kingdom of darkness that is discipling nations to hate what God loves and to love what God hates.
So what do we do?
We repent for our silence, our compromise, our comfort. Judgment begins in the house of God. (1 Peter 4:17)
We pray, not as a weak last resort, but as people who know heaven actually intervenes on earth.
We speak in love, with tears in our eyes, but with a spine made of steel. We call evil, evil, even if the world labels it progress.
We protect children in the womb and out of it. We support crisis pregnancy centers, foster care, adoption, trafficking survivors, and biblically grounded discipleship.
We confront lies with truth about life, gender, identity, sexuality, and purpose. No more watered down gospel that is afraid of being unfollowed.
If you are more outraged by the Epstein files than you are by the daily, sanitized, publicly funded destruction of children in the womb, your outrage is incomplete. Both grieve the heart of God. Both spring from the same well of hellish hatred for His image.
This world is getting darker. But Christian, that is when light actually matters.
Do not be numb. Do not be neutral. Do not be discipled by the culture. Lift your eyes, open your Bible, engage your mind, and guard your heart.
The Imago Dei is under attack. But the King whose image we bear is still on the throne. And He will have the final word.
And do not think it stops there.
When a culture learns to call death a solution in the womb, it eventually starts calling death a solution at the bedside. The same spirit that says, End the life of the inconvenient unborn child, soon says, End the life of the inconvenient sick, elderly, disabled, or depressed adult.
We have watched the whole idea of so called assisted death and dignified dying being pioneered and normalized in parts of Europe, then imported into places like Canada, and held up as the next enlightened step of a compassionate society. But it is not compassion to help someone die. Real compassion is walking with them, caring for them, relieving their suffering without eliminating the sufferer.
First it is framed as a rare exception, only for those in extreme circumstances. Then the categories widen. The line moves again and again. From terminal illness, to chronic pain, to mental anguish, to disability, to people who are simply tired of living. Once you have accepted the lie that some lives are not worth protecting, it becomes very easy to keep expanding the list of who qualifies for death.
This is just the same war on the Imago Dei wearing a white coat and using medical language.
The unborn child, the trafficked teenager, the confused young adult drowning in gender confusion, the elderly person who feels like a burden, the disabled person who has been told they are too expensive, too difficult, too unproductive for society, all of them bear the same image of God. Hell does not care if you are killed in a clinic, on a screen, in a back room, or in a hospital bed with paperwork signed and stamped. The goal is the same: erase, deface, or destroy what looks like God.
But from Genesis to Revelation, God is very clear. He is the Author of life. Our days are in His hands, not the state’s, not a doctor’s, not even our own. Human worth is not based on utility, productivity, age, or health, but on His image.
For You formed my inward parts, You covered me in my mother’s womb, in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them. (Psalm 139:13, 16)
So in a world that preaches, Your life is yours, end it when you want, the church must proclaim, Your life belongs to God, and He is near to the brokenhearted. In a world that says, Death is mercy, we must say, Christ is mercy. In a world that increasingly sees people as problems to be solved, we must see them as persons to be loved.
From the womb to the nursing home, from the foster system to the hospital, from the confused teen to the forgotten elderly, followers of Jesus are called to stand in the gap and say with our mouths and with our lives:
Every life matters.
Every life is sacred.
Every life bears the Imago Dei.
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