Christian Democrats in the United States
Domestic Issues - Abortion Make abortion undesirable by providing healthcare, family planning services, well-managed adoption programs, education and child care, a living wage, and justice. Offer your hand, and people will choose life. As for moral edge-cases like the doctor saving the mother's life, we support the right of human beings to make difficult decisions in service of life to the best of their abilities when those decisions are presented by the face of death. Outside of these cases, regardless of our individual views on personal rights, we maintain that abortion is never a good choice in the wealthiest country in the world. We believe it is possible to construct a society in which abortion is not absolutely prohibited by law, but no one wants one. We seek to resolve real-world problems to decrease demand for abortion, and not to divide people with our religious views. Subscribe to Posts [Atom]
Thursday, August 27, 2009
8:30 PM
It's in Christ that we find all life to be valuable, even that of mothers who chose abortion, because "they know not what they do," life is complicated and painful. It's not a moral excuse, but most of them probably made the best choices they thought they could at the time, given what they knew from their experiences, because that is what people do.
It ought to be Christians who would lend a hand, not an accusing tongue, and then those accusers would have no reason to hate Christianity. In any case, if we live in a free country, then certainly any soul has the right to believe in God, and Jesus, as much as in the tooth fairy. We are free to believe in Jesus, and since Jesus is true, that belief overpowers negative beliefs in time. We are free to believe in falsehood, and limitation, but that turns out not to be true in the long run.
Negative, destructive beliefs are so unpleasant to the mind, that the mind cannot live with them forever, it will reflexively turn to the good. Focusing on the sense of good can always return you to a good state of mind.
Unfortunately, opponents of philosophy have made religion their scapegoat. Our public education systems are so embroiled in conflict over ridiculous creationist pseudo-science, that teachers feel it is too risky to teach the substance of the morals and ethics embodied in philosophical history, which includes religious and non-religious writers. Instead of leading students to approach that dialog with an open mind, they declare the entire question off limits, because of the annoying tendency of some teachers to use the podium as a bully pulpit. (...)
As a result, young people in America have no idea how to form self-identity, little ability to ask questions about their own minds or to challenge their own assumptions, and no clue how to think through their decisions to see how they will affect others and themselves. Systematic, balanced philosophy is reviled, replaced by feel-good, self-help pulp steeped in esoteric symbols, and paradoxically, logic is shunned as a tool of clownish alchemists, the brunt of jokes and burns. Any such culture is ripe for milking by "dark spirits," dark patterns of thought, which they allow to rule their minds. They may not be aware at all, or may believe the shallow explanatory theories that leave the impossibility of their mind untamed, trying to explain away the thing they fear in the corner of their mind. Then that fear grows, until it consumes them, like thorns may consume a seed sown to the side of the path.
Many opponents of abortion quickly resort to the answer "because it is," when asked "why." Well, "why" is in fact an extremely difficult question. Yelling at scared girls is not going to help anyone answer that. Patiently loving them, the way the Lord loves them, will probably help a lot.
god loves all souls
Those women who choose abortion can lose themselves in guilt during "moments of clarity" when their integrated mind fully feels the obvious truth that they terminated what would have become their child. These same women are taught by abortion promoters that Christians are the evil ones, who seek to restrict their "choice." Some might even be suicidal, or fractured.It's in Christ that we find all life to be valuable, even that of mothers who chose abortion, because "they know not what they do," life is complicated and painful. It's not a moral excuse, but most of them probably made the best choices they thought they could at the time, given what they knew from their experiences, because that is what people do.
It ought to be Christians who would lend a hand, not an accusing tongue, and then those accusers would have no reason to hate Christianity. In any case, if we live in a free country, then certainly any soul has the right to believe in God, and Jesus, as much as in the tooth fairy. We are free to believe in Jesus, and since Jesus is true, that belief overpowers negative beliefs in time. We are free to believe in falsehood, and limitation, but that turns out not to be true in the long run.
Negative, destructive beliefs are so unpleasant to the mind, that the mind cannot live with them forever, it will reflexively turn to the good. Focusing on the sense of good can always return you to a good state of mind.
Unfortunately, opponents of philosophy have made religion their scapegoat. Our public education systems are so embroiled in conflict over ridiculous creationist pseudo-science, that teachers feel it is too risky to teach the substance of the morals and ethics embodied in philosophical history, which includes religious and non-religious writers. Instead of leading students to approach that dialog with an open mind, they declare the entire question off limits, because of the annoying tendency of some teachers to use the podium as a bully pulpit. (...)
As a result, young people in America have no idea how to form self-identity, little ability to ask questions about their own minds or to challenge their own assumptions, and no clue how to think through their decisions to see how they will affect others and themselves. Systematic, balanced philosophy is reviled, replaced by feel-good, self-help pulp steeped in esoteric symbols, and paradoxically, logic is shunned as a tool of clownish alchemists, the brunt of jokes and burns. Any such culture is ripe for milking by "dark spirits," dark patterns of thought, which they allow to rule their minds. They may not be aware at all, or may believe the shallow explanatory theories that leave the impossibility of their mind untamed, trying to explain away the thing they fear in the corner of their mind. Then that fear grows, until it consumes them, like thorns may consume a seed sown to the side of the path.
Many opponents of abortion quickly resort to the answer "because it is," when asked "why." Well, "why" is in fact an extremely difficult question. Yelling at scared girls is not going to help anyone answer that. Patiently loving them, the way the Lord loves them, will probably help a lot.
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