More on being dead

The definition of human life is a profound cultural and political fault line. One end, of course, is when human life begins. This surfaces as a largely emotional debate, and facts don ' t enter into it very much. For example,here is Zack Beauchamp in Vox, discussing why white evangelical Christians find such an unlikely hero in the Resident. It turns out it ' s because they ' re racists, but we already knew that. However, he concludes with this:Typically, you expect evangelical ideas to flow from religion to politics: They have a deep belief that the Bible prohibits abortion, for example, and support bans on legal abortion as a result. But in this case, Sheila and Linda aren ’t starting from scripture; there’s no biblical reason to think Jesus hated the undocumented.Instead, it ’s the other way around. The sense of existential threat — that “the survival of the Christian nation” is at stake — is leading them toward a particular, racialized definition of what their faith means. The evangelical right, and the American right more broadly, is being reshaped to ma tchthe white backlash politics that powered Donald Trump ’s rise.While it is true that Jesus didn ' t hate " the undocumented " (and of course back in his day there generally weren ' t any visas or passports or border patrols), it is not the case that the Bible prohibits abortion. Beauchamp, who writes about politics for a living, evidently doesn ' t know that. In fact there is not one word about abortion...
Source: Stayin' Alive - Category: American Health Source Type: blogs