what Job is saying here tells us that the treatment of persons as non-persons is something for which we will give an account to God. At the day of judgment, when we are faced with the billions of unborn children who have been murdered for the sake of convenience or fear, “What then shall we do?” When God rises up to ask us to give an account for our ambivalent response to human trafficking, to the sex trade, to pornography and adultery and countless other variations of sexual objectification, to the marginalization of the elderly and the disabled and the poor, to racism and discrimination,
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