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> I hope that whomever supported this ruling is happy right now, and I'd like to remind them that, while Jesus Christ never gave to abortion the slightest menti
by tablespoon 4y ago
> I hope that whomever supported this ruling is happy right now, and I'd like to remind them that, while Jesus Christ never gave to abortion the slightest mention, he was quite vocal about the fact that greed was not compatible with salvation.
Maybe so, but apparently it's been condemned from the earliest times in Christianity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Christian_thought_on_abortion#Early_Christianity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Christian_thought_o....
I don't really know the Bible, but I'm guessing Jesus probably didn't spend a lot of time condemning literal murder either, so it's probably not safe to assume that means he thought preventing greed is more important than preventing murder.
- pxc 4y agoThe very same paragraphs talk about it being comparable among early Christians to such 'grave sins as contraception and sterilization'. How should this inform the relative weight of the use of condoms and murder, for contemporary Christians? This doesn't at all support the notion that Christianity has always been concerned with abortion as a corrolary to murder, which is at the center of contemporary conservative religious discourse on the issue.