Thursday, October 25, 2012

RAPE IS GOD'S WILL?????





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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