October 26, 2010

• Switched to pro-abortion based on the Bible?

       I was using StumbleUpon about an hour ago to search specifically for sites tagged with the words “Christianity” and “apologetics.” One of the sites it took me to was the home page of a Christian forum. There I saw a thread titled “Switched to Pro-Choice Based on the Bible.” It was written by a self-proclaimed Christian (obviously, or else why look to the Bible for affirmation of her beliefs?) who said she used to be pro-life. Her “Biblical” reason for her new pro-abortion stance can be read at the previous link, but her argument was essentially that the Biblical verses used by anti-abortionists to support their stance do not actually affirm their stance. In other words, she believes that because they use faulty logic, her logic is necessarily solid. I don’t need to explain the faulty logic in this reasoning, do I?
       Here was my response:

       We don’t need a Scriptural basis for making most of our decisions in life. For example, the Bible never tells us not to kick babies. Does that then mean it’s okay to kick babies? The logic on which you base your pro-abortion stance is the exact same logic that would make someone conclude, “Nope, the Bible says nothin’ about kickin’ babies, so let’s have a baby-kickin’ party!” The Bible does not explicitly, maybe not even implicitly, say abortion is right or wrong, but that does not in any way mean that abortion is automatically right.
       Three important questions for the Christian to consider:

       1) Who allows the grass to grow and our hearts to beat and all the other natural occurrences in the world to happen?
       2) Then who allowed the mother’s egg to be successfully fertilized with the man’s sperm?
       3) Who created an entirely new set of DNA in the fetus?
       4) Who put the fetus in the womb?

       The answer to all of these questions, if you’re a Christian, is God.
       More questions:
       Who are we to dare correct what God has done and remove that fetus, ending the life that God specifically created?
       Who creates life–God or humans? The Christian says God.
       And the most important question, I think, is this: Would Jesus say, “Sure, go ahead, avoid your responsibility and just kill the defenseless human child inside you that my Father in Heaven specifically formed inside of you and already has a plan worked out for his or her entire future. It’s okay, I don’t care, and my Father in Heaven wouldn’t mind one bit either.”
       Would Jesus really say that? Would he support undoing God’s will? Even an atheist understands Jesus, the historical figure, would never approve of abortion. The difference is that an atheist doesn’t care because he doesn’t believe, whereas a Christian does care that Jesus wouldn’t approve, and therefore a true Christian would not support abortion (though of course there are many non-religious arguments against abortion as well).
       You cannot be a Christian and support anything that Jesus would object to, plain and simple. Sure, you may believe Jesus is your Savior and that he is God, but that’s only one half of Christianity. Any serial killer can believe that stuff. But these beliefs are meaningless unless you actually walk the walk of Christianity, or at least genuinely strive to. And we should never try to rationalize our evil behavior by searching desperately in the Bible for vague statements that, when stretched, could be taken as showing approval for obviously heinous evils.

       I think there is something much deeper involved here, though. There is much to be said about this issue of someone taking something that they previously believed to be immoral, and then, after finding nothing in the Bible explicitly stating it is immoral, deciding to go all out and turn it into a political issue which she now supports. It seems very odd to me, that line of logic. It’s as if she wished abortion were moral just for the sole purpose of endorsing the pro-choice movement. Usually it’s the other way around: first someone has a pro-choice stance, and then he or she will try to come up with arguments for why it is moral. Her train of thought, if not psychotic, is definitely unintelligent.

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