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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Although not totally clear, the bible strongly supports a conclusion that: (1) a husband who suspects his wife of infidelity can force her to take an abortifacient (the ordeal of bitter waters); and (2) if someone causes your wife to miscarry, it is not akin to murder, but rather something that should be subject to a civil lawsuit where the husband may be compensated for injury to his property.

I am not sure where the strong Christian objection to abortion even comes from.[/quote]

It came from racism. Evangelicals didn’t like that the public schools were integrated so they started their own religious schools to keep their kids’ schools segregated. It started messing with their tax status, so they needed voters to elect people who’d let them keep the segregated religious schools and their tax exemptions, but it wasn’t an issue that drove people to the polls. They figured out that abortion would, so they changed their stance that it’s a private medical issue to it being an issue of murdering babies, and that’s how it took off. Eventually the school stuff sort of resolved, but the abortion issue stuck around. I believe it was billy graham who previously supported abortion as healthcare but changed his stance when conservatives needed him to, and I know it used to be seen as necessary healthcare in the Southern Baptist Convention’s  doctrine. So like most political things conservatives do, it’s rooted in evil. [/quote]

And the prosperity gospel.

White Evangelical Christians who just after superficial emblems of the American good life while shutting out the needs of the many who are being left behind can delude themselves that they are actually morally virtuous.

The Bible should not be taken literally as there are some imperatives that are outrageous by today’s standards - but overall, it is pretty clear that morality means:

(1) loving God with your whole heart and others like yourself; and

(2) pursuing wide spread social Justice in practical ways with humility.

All the judgment against women who choose to abort due to heart breaking circumstances is theologically unsound.[/quote]

That’s not how it became a political movement though. That’s how they misinterpret the Bible to justify whatever nonsense they’re selling to the congregation at any given moment. The political movement to deny women access to abortion was rooted in racism. It’s as simple as that. [/quote]

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