How I got started blogging
Well, the main thing that got me started blogging was that I needed some way to keep people updated on my latest essays and what was going on with my website. I got tired of having to play with html each time, so I decided to do the updates in blog form. I also liked the idea of putting my thoughts out there without going into a full blown essay. So that’s how I started blogging. Nothing much to it.
The longer story is how I got started with a website. I owe that to my brother. He got interested in making webpages way back when Al Gore invented the Internet. I grew up in a somewhat Christian home attending a private Christian school. That pretty much sheltered me from the outside world and kept me from getting interested in what was happening outside of my sphere of influence. I couldn’t have cared less about abortion or attempts by secularists to rid the country of all forms of Christian expression. It just didn’t occur to me that such things actually concerned me.
Then I transferred to a public high school and was introduced to the real world. It was there that I realized I needed to be a positive influence on those around me. I realized that I needed to share with people the truth about abortion and other societal evils. I wore pro-life t-shirts to school, but that was about the extent of my efforts. I didn’t really care to argue with anyone or say anything about Christian morals unless someone asked me.
That’s the way it went, and that’s how I probably still would be had it not been for the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform. They came to my university with their Genocide Awareness Project (GAP). The pictures of aborted babies were shocking. At first, I didn’t know what to think about them, but I went to talk to Dr. Cunningham, and watching and listening to him interact with pro-choicers was simply amazing. He is the most intelligent debater I have ever seen. He had people yelling at him and in some cases threatening him with violence, but by the time he was done talking with them, they were on his side!
I volunteered to help them for the remainder of their time on campus, and I got to see a video of an actual abortion. It was the most horrifying thing I have ever seen. The child in the womb was frantically trying to get away from the doctor’s instruments and writhed in pain as he or she was being ripped to pieces. I was taught that boys don’t cry, so it is not often that I shed a tear, but I was weeping after seeing that video. It was then that I decided that wearing pro-life t-shirts was not enough. I decided that I needed to start voting and getting involved politically.
So my brother started a website for me on his webspace and did all the updates for me until I learned html myself. I’ve been trying to do my part to end abortion ever since. As for the other topics, as long as I was going to be doing a website, I figured I might as well add creation/evolution into the mix, since that is another subject that interests me, and it has branched out from there.
What an interesting story Casey. After fighting this one for over 25 years, how do you think the pro-life cause is going?