Sunday Sermonette: A digression to current events

The next two psalms are just the usual pleading for God to be good to me and to screw over my enemies, so I won ' t say anything else about them.  But I will take this opportunity to comment on the Alabama Supreme Court ruling that an embryo is legally a child, with Chief Justice Tom Parker writing that " human life cannot be wrongfully destroyed without incurring the wrath of a holy God, who views the destruction of His image as an affront to Himself. " Presidential candidate Nikki Haley said she agrees, that she believes an embryo is a baby. It is something of a mystery why this very weird belief has become central to the ideology of many self-described Christians, and that it is held so passionately. There is no biblical basis for this idea whatsoever. That abortion, at any stage of pregnancy, is any sort of a sin, is not mentioned anywhere in the Bible, Old Testament or New. Jesus is never said to have mentioned it, not do the epistles. In the Torah, unwanted killing of a fetus is a property crime against the father. Numbers 5 prescribes a ceremony for the purpose of inducing abortion in the case of an unfaithful wife. God repeatedly commands the Israelites to massacre pregnant women and children. As for the point at which an entity gains the moral status of a human, they couldn ' t even have speculated on that because they were unaware of the existence of embryos or the nature of conception -- which actually did not become even dimly understood until the ...
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