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The thing that gets me about this is that evangelicals considered this whole area to be an issue for catholics, and nothing to do with them and nothing of inter
by Nursie 4y ago
The thing that gets me about this is that evangelicals considered this whole area to be an issue for catholics, and nothing to do with them and nothing of interest.
But it was made a wedge issue, and became an artifact of the culture wars, and now here we are.
- hprotagonist 4y agoOpposition to abortion by the american evangelical protestant polity was a deliberate political choice, and it’s younger than the happy meal. from a 1979 issue of Christianity Today on contraception and abortion — in Billy Graham’s magazine for editor Harold “the battle for the bible” Lindsell: God does not regard the fetus as a soul, no matter how far gestation has progressed. The Law plainly exacts: “If a man kills any human life he will be put to death” (Lev. 24:17). But according to Exodus 21:22-24, the destruction of the fetus is not a capital offense. … Clearly, then, in contrast to the mother, the fetus is not reckoned as a soul. 10 years later, everyone acted like it was never said. Inerrancy and plain meaning for me, but not for thee, indeed.