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To: Rurudyne
There is no other way to say the truth about something that is exceedingly harsh and cruel to innocent blood.

Sure there is.

It appears you have too cruel a spirit to be able to find sympathy for a young girl who was essentially raped and then rushed into having an abortion.

It hardly seems to reflect the Spirit of Christ.

This is why I usually stay off the Life threads.

32 posted on 09/19/2019 3:42:35 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: Balding_Eagle

Telling the plain truth - sans euphemism - is sometimes necessary. Contrary to your assertion, soft-selling murder is a lie.

I have served in ministry. Have you? Have you paid a price for speaking the plain truth in love, instead of speaking a lie in the name of pseudo-love? (I lost the possibility of marriage to a woman because I refused to call abortion in the case of rape as an acceptable form of murder.)

Abortion is murder. Sin must be repented. Nota Bene: It cannot be repented if it is not acknowledged as sin!

Telling the plain truth is not necessarily cruel, and telling a cultured lie is not necessarily merciful.

If you actually read the Bible (do you?), you will find that Jesus was himself often “harsh” and “cruel” by your standard.

It is that very false spirit of misplaced (and selfish!) compassion that has allowed homoeroticism to gain such a strong hold in the institutionalized church.


34 posted on 09/19/2019 4:48:10 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: Balding_Eagle

There is nothing cruel about it. Nor is there any lack of sympathy. But to dodge the truth, which is a cold and hard one, does no one any good, least of all those needing to come to term with what has been done.

To dance around the issue, with the possible outcome that you’re too sensitive to their feelings to risk their disapproval of you (never mind that she is likely not in this conversation), would be unmerciful. Not just towards this girl but towards those who might read the article (who are in this thread, even if not commenting) and decide abortions can be when they never really are.

As for this woman: she revealed the matter herself. This wasn’t someone else’s doing. Moreover comments here are not necessarily directed to her and the conversation does not insofar as I know involve her. Should her asserted feelings, which you don’t really know, rule here where she is not?


37 posted on 09/20/2019 7:16:21 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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