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phanatic made a while ago. I found it quite interesting and wonder if more people know about this little tidbit. Kinda blows a wide and gaping hole in the christian-anti-abortion group doesn't it? Notice I call them anti-abortion, not pro-life, because if they were pro-life they wouldn't be trying to kill (or encouraging the deaths) of people who are pro-abortion. After all, if all life is sacred you wouldn't want to be killing anyone. Another point is this; if they are all fired up about saving "the innocent" but they are Christian... what happened to their belief in Original Sin? No one except Mary, mother of Jesus, was born without it. Supposedly. Well, it always seems that, if you make an argument claiming that the Bible backs up your opinion someone else is bound to find a counter argument within the Bible as well.
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The pro-life crowd, or at least the Christian subset of the pro-life crowd, tends to argue its case from a Biblical perspective, as one would expect. Generally, it's claimed that abortion is the moral equivalent of murder.
But there's a Biblical passage that seems to call that assertion into question, and in a big way: Exodus 21:22-25.
To sum up, if you beat a pregnant woman and she miscarries, it's a civil matter, punishable merely by a monetary fine. If you hurt the woman, then it's a criminal matter and you can be physically punished. If you murder the woman in the process, you yourself are to be put to death.
Kill the woman, you die. Simply kill the fetus, you're out some cash.
Isn't this a pretty substantial point of evidence that abortion and murder are not morally equivalent?
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So? Comments? Discussion?
phanatic made a while ago. I found it quite interesting and wonder if more people know about this little tidbit. Kinda blows a wide and gaping hole in the christian-anti-abortion group doesn't it? Notice I call them anti-abortion, not pro-life, because if they were pro-life they wouldn't be trying to kill (or encouraging the deaths) of people who are pro-abortion. After all, if all life is sacred you wouldn't want to be killing anyone. Another point is this; if they are all fired up about saving "the innocent" but they are Christian... what happened to their belief in Original Sin? No one except Mary, mother of Jesus, was born without it. Supposedly. Well, it always seems that, if you make an argument claiming that the Bible backs up your opinion someone else is bound to find a counter argument within the Bible as well.----------------------------------------------------------------------------
The pro-life crowd, or at least the Christian subset of the pro-life crowd, tends to argue its case from a Biblical perspective, as one would expect. Generally, it's claimed that abortion is the moral equivalent of murder.
But there's a Biblical passage that seems to call that assertion into question, and in a big way: Exodus 21:22-25.
"If men who are fighting hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman's husband demands and the court allows. But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise."
To sum up, if you beat a pregnant woman and she miscarries, it's a civil matter, punishable merely by a monetary fine. If you hurt the woman, then it's a criminal matter and you can be physically punished. If you murder the woman in the process, you yourself are to be put to death.
Kill the woman, you die. Simply kill the fetus, you're out some cash.
Isn't this a pretty substantial point of evidence that abortion and murder are not morally equivalent?
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So? Comments? Discussion?
