2 Issues for Post #2
Two subjects for my second entry (I don't want to post twice). One is abortion and the other is the current violence in response to the cartoons from Denmark.
In regards to the voilence in response to the cartoons, we already know that there's just no excuse for it. Islam WAS a religion of peace and knowledge back in its promising beginnings as it helped to bring the Renaissance to Europe... but in modern times it has fallen into a dark age. Christianity followed a similar road. It began with a strong start, progressing Europe into better days (during the rise of the Byzantine Emp.), then fell into the Medeival period and rose again through the Reformation. Sure enough... Islam NEEDS its own Reformation. The extremeists pull the strings of this religion (15 of the 19 hijackers of 9/11 were from our long-time ALLY nation of Saudi Arabia). The people of this faith are just freakin LOST from being so divided. GOD willing theyll get this Reformation, though it may take a century or two...
Second is something I want to get off my chest that explains my view on Abortion. My belief is that though the fetus is most definately alive in the biological way we know it to be, it still doesn't possess a soul until first breath. The Bible glances upon this the same way it glances upon Evolution (Gen 1:20). It doesn't proclaim it outright on both theories, but all you need to do is take a close look at a few select verses. On inspection, things start to add up.
Exodus 21:22-23 (from NIV):
"If men who are fighting hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely (or she has a miscarriage) but there is no seriously injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman's husband demands and the court allows. But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life..."
King James Verion...
"If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her..." and it goes on to say the same thing. The point is that the fetus is killed but the man who struck the woman only gets fined and doesn't recieve capital punishment for it. There is no capital punishment for the willful killing of a fetus. Bringing this into our world today -- our country today -- I think about the women in our poorest neighborhoods who aren't given a choice not only in this, but throughout their lives of being poor. You just can't tell her not to have sex (easier said than done). And when she has this child, but not the resources to raise that child, she won't have those people, who told her she couldnt have an abortion, to help her out. She's on her own.
I can't stand these people (who among them aren't of the religious right-wing?). And there's no need to get into the "why" other than they say they properly represent our highest moral values, but in reality they aren't anything like what they say they are.
Until next time.
In regards to the voilence in response to the cartoons, we already know that there's just no excuse for it. Islam WAS a religion of peace and knowledge back in its promising beginnings as it helped to bring the Renaissance to Europe... but in modern times it has fallen into a dark age. Christianity followed a similar road. It began with a strong start, progressing Europe into better days (during the rise of the Byzantine Emp.), then fell into the Medeival period and rose again through the Reformation. Sure enough... Islam NEEDS its own Reformation. The extremeists pull the strings of this religion (15 of the 19 hijackers of 9/11 were from our long-time ALLY nation of Saudi Arabia). The people of this faith are just freakin LOST from being so divided. GOD willing theyll get this Reformation, though it may take a century or two...
Second is something I want to get off my chest that explains my view on Abortion. My belief is that though the fetus is most definately alive in the biological way we know it to be, it still doesn't possess a soul until first breath. The Bible glances upon this the same way it glances upon Evolution (Gen 1:20). It doesn't proclaim it outright on both theories, but all you need to do is take a close look at a few select verses. On inspection, things start to add up.
Exodus 21:22-23 (from NIV):
"If men who are fighting hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely (or she has a miscarriage) but there is no seriously injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman's husband demands and the court allows. But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life..."
King James Verion...
"If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her..." and it goes on to say the same thing. The point is that the fetus is killed but the man who struck the woman only gets fined and doesn't recieve capital punishment for it. There is no capital punishment for the willful killing of a fetus. Bringing this into our world today -- our country today -- I think about the women in our poorest neighborhoods who aren't given a choice not only in this, but throughout their lives of being poor. You just can't tell her not to have sex (easier said than done). And when she has this child, but not the resources to raise that child, she won't have those people, who told her she couldnt have an abortion, to help her out. She's on her own.
I can't stand these people (who among them aren't of the religious right-wing?). And there's no need to get into the "why" other than they say they properly represent our highest moral values, but in reality they aren't anything like what they say they are.
Until next time.
posted by Omar at 9:40 PM
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