A senator from Indiana (Richard Mourdock) caused a national
commotion when he, as a conservative Christian, stated that even a pregnancy
resulting from rape was the will of God and cannot be aborted since all life is
a gift from God.
In his defense, I can state that Christianity or at least
some Christian denominations, believe
that God is all knowing, all loving and nothing happens without God having a
hand in it so if you are taught that as a fact of life and believe it, you will
make statements like the good senator made.
The senator, like some Christians but not all, believes that
conception is not a mere uniting of sperm and egg, but something beyond nature
and biology, something divine. In that mode of thinking, even conception from
rape or incest must be something prescribed by God.
To many liberal Christians, the sex act and resultant
pregnancy is a biological event, nothing more, nothing less. Yes you still
thank God for making the pregnancy possible and call the resulting infant a
gift from God but you really never deny the fact that it was still an act of
nature and if you have trouble conceiving, you see a doctor to help that act of
nature happen and not a religious minister or priest.
Talking to some of my Christian friends about this particular
issue, the subject of EVIL came up and does one believe in the existence of
evil or not.
If one believes that God is all good and controls everything
that happens, you have a problem with a loving God allowing evil to happen and
that has been a dilemma for you and people that hold those beliefs.
Rape to many, is an act of evil and if it results in a
pregnancy, many can see why the victim would want to abort that pregnancy, not
wanting to associate the product of that pregnancy with the evil crime; forcing
that victim to deliver the baby would be a crime against her person as a human.
For this reason, our Founding Fathers made strict laws
keeping religion and government separate; your religious beliefs should not
cross over into government laws that apply to all of us. If you want to have
religious laws govern your life and behavior, that is OK but you cannot apply
your religious beliefs to those not holding your religious beliefs; the rest of
us.
In this election coming up, we have an obvious and definite
choice between political parties when it comes to religion and government.
The Republicans call for a small federal government that
does not intrude into people’s lives and yet they want their religious beliefs
to govern us all…I see that as a problem.
There are many reasons people prefer one party over another
but as much as I align myself with conservative Republican economic theory, I
cannot allow my vote to support a party that is trying to force their religion
on me and my family.
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