Reply #18: Something you should notice....

[bperci108]

...but it's probably lost on the fundie-mentalists who spout this sort of emotional crap, is that the focus here is on someone else's perceived sin.

I drive by a huge billboard put up by some religious group that shouts "Abortion is a SIN, it MUST stop!" over a pic of a fetus laid on an American flag. (Karl is designing billboards now?)

Okay....

So don't have one. Simple.

But that isn't good enough for these folks.....they aren't content with riding herd on their OWN "sin".

No, now they have to concern themselves with everyone else's "sin".

Which brings me to my point:

This isn't Christianity - this is Calvinism.

Christ told people to concern themselves with the log in their own eye before the speck in their brother's.

Conversely, Calvinism teaches that salvation is assured the elect and since they cannot have their salvation taken away, they then turn their guns on those "others" whom they perceive as the "lost" and the "sinners" unlike themselves.

(Read the parable of the Publican and the Pharisee for the error of this type of spiritual arrogance.)

Personally, I do think abortion is wrong. But this is an imperfect world and sometimes wrong things are the only course possible. War is wrong too IMHO, but sometimes there is no other recourse. You do what you have to do.

As a guy, I'll never have to personally face a possible aborted pregnancy, so it's easy for me to pontificate.

It's a decision that should be left to the woman, her doc and her own religious beliefs (or lack thereof). Everyone else should mind their own business.

Oh, and tend to "thine own beam", as it were.... ;)