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Alexandra #295453 02/28/07 12:06 AM
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LL is referring more to the doctrine of self-defense. It's O.K. to protect your own life.

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To be honest I am fine with TD's beliefs it is the manner of force and making it illegal. It is a personal choice and belief and should not be government sacntioned. If you wish to discrease the number of abortions help create a better enviornment for those who feel they have no choice except abortion.


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texasdave7 #295503 02/28/07 04:21 AM
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Originally Posted By: texasdave7
LL is referring more to the doctrine of self-defense. It's O.K. to protect your own life.


First of all, I would hope that LL can answer for herself.... I wouldn't think that it would be possible for one Christian to enter the thought process of another, even though your opinions are virtually the same...unless of course, you ARE one and the same....

And secondly, your reply doesn't change what she meant. She meant that it's quite ok to 'protect yourself' even if it meand deliberately killing someone else....
Well, then she's as guilty as anyone advocating abortion. Sure it's conditional, but in her words, it's the rape of the mother and the murder of the child.... whatever the circumstances.

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Take ectopic pregnancy for example. If that is not aborted then it will cost the life of the mother and the child. Abortion is O.K. to save a life but just to abort because someone wishes the pregnancy to go away is murder. Abortion violates the Hippocratic oath and violates your buddhist faith...."do no harm"

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Oh good. well that's ok then.....

By the way, I have never said I agree with abortion either... I happen to be against it on the whole, and generally speaking.
But, I refuse to condemn anyone opting for this, whatever their reasons.
because whatever their reasons, I can assure you, it's the very rare woman who takes the decision lightly, and just "because she wishes the pregnancy to go away". And if a woman chooses to abort, then she has a right to have that reason respected, and to be treated with Compassion, Understanding and Love. Not as a murderer and criminal.

You claim to be a follower of Jesus.
Try being as non-judgemental as he was, instead of condemning those whom you do not understand, out of hand.
This is the kind of attitude that makes me glad I do not share your beliefs.
Even if I did, I would distance myself from your opinion.

Some of your posts come across as spiteful.

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Alexandra #295782 03/01/07 06:08 AM
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LL is not being judgmental. Agreeing with judgements God has already made is discernment, not judgement.

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Yes, but there are many good, faithful christians who don't wholeheartedly hang on every single word indiscriminately, because they know that just as the Bible has moved on, so has the broadened thinking power of those God has blessed with a brain...
Just as there are certain aspects of the Bible we don't promulgate within our modern and current society today (unclean menstruating women, stoning,) so there are other parameters that need to be appraised with a more magnanimous and forgiving attitude.
I haven't said LL is wrong to hold the opinions she does...it just strikes me as being very black-and-white with her, and excessively judgemental.
Abortion, for those who have one, is painful, distressing, heart-wrenching and desperate. Every single woman must know despair in her heart to consider such a move.
I just think that the attitude of others - even those violently opposed to the practise - should be more tolerant and loving...It's bad enough going through it, without the loud voices of those opposed, yelling 'murder' and 'rape' in their ears...
If the critics were able to directly experience the turnmoil and anguish of those concerned - Dirctly, physically feel it - then I think their voices might be less strident....
And we never know... we can never know what blows life will deal us....
We just need to be kind.

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God says in Malachi, " I am the Lord and I change not" Truth does not change with man's thinking. Man just distorts it. God was, is, and always will be the same. The Bible is His inerrant Word.

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As I said, I recognize my thoughts are a double standard. Can you lovelove? I just feel rape and incest would be horrible to deal with in and of themselves, add a pregnancy to it and you're asking someone to deal with surmountable issues, and lets just say...all at the age of 16?

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If we don't hand out death sentences to rapists or molesters why would we do so to the unborn children that have no fault in the situation?

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