{"id":228493,"date":"2020-08-06T14:38:57","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T19:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=228493"},"modified":"2020-08-06T14:58:22","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T19:58:22","slug":"christian-author-porn-addiction-devalue-human-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/christian-author-porn-addiction-devalue-human-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian author says past porn addiction drove him to pressure ex-girlfriend into abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Popular Christian author and speaker Stephen Arterburn<\/a>\u00a0says his past addiction to pornography led him to dehumanize women and, by extension, preborn children. Those actions eventually drove him to pressure an ex-girlfriend into an abortion after an unintended pregnancy. Now, filled with remorse, Arterburn is speaking out<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Arterburn, author of multiple books including the wildly popular “Every Man’s Battle: Winning the War on Sexual Temptation<\/a>,” recently spoke at a virtual conference hosted by Promise Keepers<\/a>, an organization dedicated to forming Christian men. In his speech, Arterburn talked about how many men who consider themselves Christian frequently use pornography, and how it affected his own life.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn any given Sunday, of us men that are sitting in church, more of us have looked at pornography than have opened God\u2019s word to look at his truth,” he said. His experience with porn started when he was a child, when he saw photos of pin-ups on the walls of his grandfather’s office. This, he said, led him to objectify women.<\/p>\n