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For most of the history of the Catholic Church, one did not become a human being or a person until well after conception.
Defending abortion from a liberal Christian perspective
Seeded on Tue Dec 22, 2009 6:57 AM EST
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From reading the article it seems abortion being criminal or going against God's will has nothing to do with God but has more to do with what man dictates it to be at any given time.
It also seems that all churches follow the dictates of the catholic church and/or Pope and not their Bibles. If this is the case, that makes every religion a branch of Catholicism. If all religions are a branch of Catholicism then those who follow religion are not following their bibles but following the dictates of one man; therefore, these same people don't have a religious basis for arguing against abortion.
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#1 - Tue Dec 22, 2009 7:07 AM ESTPeople pick and choose what they want to believe. They focus on the verse that says I knew you even in the womb, and ignore other verses saying life begins with the first breath, or Jewish tradition that placed it as late as the first birthday as a way to accommodate high infant mortality rates in pre-Industrial society. We have an idea of when babies are self aware, we know when fetuses have upper brain function, we know when a central nervous system develops, know when the heart begins to beat, and even know when the first unique strands of DNA originate. Instead of debating the rather complex issue of what gives a person value, ethical questions about a woman's choice, and the scientific process of reproduction we get stuck in a ridiculous religious debate about God, souls, and when the magic fairy dust gets sprinkled on you in the womb. Honestly, it's one step beyond obfuscating to the point of debating abortion on the grounds that it's wrong to kill the stork carrying the baby when it's not bird season.
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I am among the confused, I thought when a baby was first born tbat it was actually a baby, but others say I am wrong.
They have it being a baby even before it is thought of. How can you say it is okay to have 7 babies and the mother not know who is the father of any of them and she takes dope, runs with a pack and welfare has to pay for the kids? The kids are beaten, starved (she trades the welfare food for drugs) and just let run loose around the neighborhood who doesn't even care about them. They grow up and do the same thing most of the time. Wouldn't it be better for abortion?
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#2 - Tue Dec 22, 2009 1:57 PM ESTSOME of the very same people who rant and rave about abortions being murder not only support the death penalty and cheer for those who would kill someone who performed an abortion, but they also scream to high Heaven if someone tries to ask them to help pay for a lunch for one of those kids they protested to ensure was born.
- 4 votes
The more I give to this article the more I'm convinced that all religions are Catholic. I say that because everything that's done in religions are done because the Catholic church came up with it first and the other religions are just playing follow the leader.
Those people who don't believe in abortion but believe in capital punishment are following the history of the Catholic church.
#3 - Tue Dec 22, 2009 7:48 PM ESTThe Catholic church in fact opposes capital punishment. It certainly doesn't rectify the fact that their stance on abortion is idiotic though.
The Catholic church hasn't always oppose captial punishment, have they?
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