A doctor is performing a late term abortion and killing a baby which is an objectively human life, then would an individual have a moral right to kill them in defense of human life? (Just as some may argue that abolitionists had a right to kill slave owners in defense of the lives of slaves?)
(The state is of course a social construct and has no inherent rights but what the people give it, so while it might be illegal to kill an abortion doctor, if it's done in defense of an innocent life, I don't see why someone wouldn't have a right to do it).
Wrong.
An embryo/fetus is not a ‘baby.’
Abortion is not ‘murder.’
This thread exhibits the reprehensible right’s propensity to lie, their desire to compel a woman to give birth against her will through force of law in violation of the Constitution, and their contempt for the rule of law.
It shows Christianity is almost as insane as islam. Christians have only recently become less violent in the last couple hundred years but slowly. But we see what religious people are capable of. You know they'd make perfect nazis
Dear
sealybobo What are you referring to when you use the term "Christianity"
Can we distinguish terms here, or this is like mixing Muslim faith with Jihadist terrorism and saying it's all the same under Islam.
No it's not.
Christianity means charity, and yes there is FALSE charity done for personal benefit reward and show.
But the TRUE meaning is TRUE charity, especially offering forgiveness to those who do not deserve it as an act of grace.
Some of the most common ways Christianity is abused
(1) confusing forgiveness with condoning and enabling injustice to continue.
True forgiveness compels correction, not enabling which is out of fear of confronting the problem and not real forgiveness
that embraces and opens the door to resolve the root cause of the problem.
(2) taking laws out of context and judging others in ways that contradict the meaning and message in Christianity
(3) mixing beliefs about Christianity (or other religion/beliefs) with secular authority that is supposed to remain neutral and all inclusive to defend all rights and not
abuse authority to impose one set of beliefs at the expense of any other group or individual
If you are talking about any of THOSE types of abuses,
YES those are wrong, whether it's Christians, Muslims, Liberals, Constitutionalists or anyone doing that,
it is NOT unique to Christianity, and is NOT the fault of Christianity but of the person/groups guilty of RELIGIOUS ABUSE.
More people do more good practicing Christianity or Charity without abusing religious authority.
All groups I've seen, especially corporations and govt, have been caught abusing "collective authority"
Not just Christianity, Islam or other religions that get the most publicity.
it's a flaw of human nature that when we get into groups, the mob mentality or pecking order politics
can kick in, and leads to one dominant group BULLYING the runts or lesser groups into submission.
I think the Christians and rightwing get jumped on the most for this because they have and claim
greater responsibility for correcting it. if Jesus means Justice for all, whoever claims to invoke
that authority has got more work to do to establish justice by law than those who don't claim such authority or know how to invoke or apply it.
C_Clayton_Jones
your insistence that abortion is not murder, and not recognizing the beliefs of others that it is,
reminds me of the people who don't recognize beliefs that are foreign to them either,
such as how can transgender people really be born that way, that can't be real for them, and has to be mental illness.
Just because we don't believe or agree with someone's beliefs,
doesn't give us the right to abuse govt to censor those beliefs and force people
to either change, comply or be penalized for not complying due to their beliefs.
Why can't we find a way to accommodate beliefs equally WITHOUT imposing or denying/depriving one side or the other?
Why this need to censor to the point of insulting and excluding people just because we disagree with their beliefs.
How is that bullying even necessary, especially when we don't agree with being bullied when it's our beliefs being denied.
Why can't we write better laws that allow all sides to have and defend their own
beliefs and not be forced to fund or support private beliefs of others that conflict or violate our own?
Shouldn't that be the standard of law in order to have equal justice and equal protections from discrimination by creed?