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An evangelical worldview, and why abortion is still the issue Date published: 9/7/2008
WHEN John But when I expressed this to a friend of mine, a person I enjoy and respect, her consternation was apparent. "Why does it have to be that one single issue," she asked, "and why does religion have At that point, I realized we had some 'splainin' to do. Why is abortion such I was motivated back then by my concern for my friend, pragmatism (having the baby would have profoundly disrupted her life), and a decidedly secular worldview. I had been brought up in a mainline church, and my knowledge of the Bible was minimal. It took personal failure and a disruption in my own circumstances to change that. Think of "worldview" as the basic presuppositions we have about life--the grid through which we filter information and synthesize our responses to it. Most Americans see life through either a secular worldview or a religious worldview. Either man is the center of all things and the arbitrator of right and wrong, or The extreme of the former is expressed by British professor Richard Dawkins: "The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is at the bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, and no good--nothing but blind pitiless indifference. DNA neither knows nor cares. DNA just is, and we dance to its music."
Date published: 9/7/2008
Republicans love voters like you. They just have to say they are pro life and you will vote for them, no matter how anti-family they are toward things like affordable health care and no matter how much money they take from corporate lobbyists to vote for policies that are harmful to working Americans. You just look the other way, smugly thinking you voted pro life, But after years of Republican control, have they outlawed abortion? No. They are just using you. Congratulations. Keep up the good work.
When you presume to have the right and moral authority to deny a woman her personal sovereignty over her own body and reproductive choice based on a very flawed mythology, then you ARE, in fact, advocating theocracy. You also need to consider that late-term abortion becomes more necessary when the anti-choice movement puts increasing numbers of obstacles in the way of early abortion and even the use/ obtaining of contraceptives.
Why can't one be for life and choice? Seems that the Palins are by CHOOSING to have that baby that Bristol is carrying. (By the way, did you notice in today's article on the good Governor that she, too, had premarital sex? Great role model, uh?) And if you are going to wear your so-called pro-life badge on your sleeve, then I'd like to hear these Evangelicals speak our against the death penalty and the war (which is also killing innocent kids). You can't be pro-life and pro-death.
your hero Sarah Palin, used the line-item veto to slash funding for a state program benefiting teen mothers in need of a place to live. When the "Ownership" society of McPalin is voted in, does it mean that unwed mothers are "on their own." Is this the Republican party so lovingly endorsed by Evangelicals?
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