Well that might explain why she's atheist now.
Pray for her return to the faith. Thank God she has the conscience to know abortion is wrong.
This is true.
I go to church 2-3 times a month....for my kids....my wife...my shame
I believe and always have that Jesus is literally the son of God sent here to save us if we believe in him...and behave to varying degrees...I hope.... and I pray when I’m near death and for children and puppies
And it just makes more humankind sense to me compared to other faiths
And I raise my kids this way
But I’m no Bible thumper much and usually am drawn more by an old time preacher than the concept of church and church goers...though I like living amongst them....I don’t want to be them
But I’m strongly anti abortion....militantly
I find pro life tedious and easily pollyanna....plenty folks deserve to be kilt
But abortion....I’m sympathetic to stopping it by force if that would work
And I know non religious fallen born Catholic men....who feel the same way
So yes...as I southern Baptist hellion....I agree....plenty non Christians and non religious folks detest killing babies
I have to wonder about the drugs they are filling her with for ADHD/Aspergers as well. While I fully believe genuine cases of it exist, They pass that diagnosis out like candy, drug the kids and then their whole perception of reality is filtered through psychotropics and stimulants.
Great she’s pro life, not so great that she’s atheist, but are both REALLY what she believes or what she thinks she believes?
The famed atheist, Christopher Hitchens, also believed abortion was the taking of a human life. It was a conclusion he arrived at based solely on reason & logic.
That said, I do hope you find your way back to the Church and faith. God is real and calls us to Him — all you have to do is look for him in the ordinary. Far too many people look for Him to present Himself to us in some extra ordinary way.
Here is a post I put up @ two years ago, called God’s Sudoku.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2964965/posts
All the Best!
Bill
“Over the years, my views have changed, and I eventually became an atheist. “
And so your views can change anytime on any subject for any reason.
Mine can’t.
Stopped clock etc,
I was an “atheist” when I was 19, too. It’s so typical as to be hardly worth mentioning.
On the flip side - not all religious people are pro-life... or even wiling to follow Christ himself w/o a mortal proxy.
It’s not at all unusual for a nineteen year old to believe they are and declare themselves to be atheistic. They’re at the age when the vast complexity of becoming an adult begins to really hit, and figuring out God and their relationship with Him / matter of their own existence / purpose in being here can be seemingly simplified if they close their eyes for a bit and repeat “I don’t believe in ..., I don’t believe in ..., etc.”. Part of the normal questioning which can follow a “strict” upbringing in any belief system. I think it’s likely that at some point it will dawn on her to consider the source of the conscience and little voice telling her it’s wrong to devalue and discard unformed and innocent lives because they’re not “perfect”. Somehow I feel more hopeful about an “atheist” whose instincts are true than someone who professes a belief in God but without conscience can murder or support the murder of a child.
Well, I’m in my 50s and I’m a pro-life atheist. I became pro-life when I found myself pregnant. Women who kill their own babies are sick or scared, but it doesn’t matter what the reason is. I can certainly understand the scared part, but that’s no excuse for killing your own baby. Nobody thought I could raise a kid, but she turned out great.
One does not have to be a Christian to be Pro-Life (although I am BOTH!). St Paul teaches in the Book of Romans that all mankind has “Eternity in their hearts”, which gives all people a consciousness of Right and Wrong. Of course, as society is debased and degraded by sin, this Conscience becomes “seared”.
The original Hippocratic Oath (which was a Pagan oath to the God Aesculapius) forbids both Abortion and Euthanasia. Even the Greek Philosophers knew Natural Law.
I wonder if Medical Students even recite this oath anymore.
As for this young lady, I pray that the spark of “Eternity in her heart” will flare back up into Saving Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. This I pray in Faith, in Jesus Name, Amen.
I’ve made the point that the liberals real target is not religion. Their cult is trying to make our society lose its virtue.
Once virtue is lost, we have evil running this planet.
There used to be Atheists For Life. I don’t know if it’s around any more. It was never really big, but it really did exists in the 90s.
“she has the conscience”
That is the operative phrase. She is young and an atheist, but with a conscience, likely to return to the fold in time