Yes, situational in this human experience. Spiritually there is only absolute right (And God saw everything he had made, and it was good). We are operating in a relative, limited, material, imperfect human environment (made by us, not by a perfect God) and we decide to accept the death of innocent civilians in war rather than completely renounce the use of lethal weapons and trust in God to protect us and keep us free. Or some women decide to end a pregnancy for reasons which may or may not be valid. One important difference between those two decisions is that the woman's decision has way less impact on you and me than does the group decision to wage war.
Or some women decide to end a pregnancy for reasons which may or may not be valid. One important difference between those two decisions is that the woman's decision has way less impact on you and me than does the group decision to wage war.
In terms of flawed human society the impact is the same. Both devalue and cheapen life. The abortion industry can be thought of as "war". Each aborted child can be thought of as an innocent civilian. You compartmentalize the entire abortion issue down to an individual. If you use that same compartmentalization in a fighting war, you would say that we can't condemn war because we can't judge the actions of each individual soldier. After all, we can't judge what that solider is thinking or doing, his situation, or his reasons for shooting at that time. Sometimes it may be valid, sometimes not. Therefore we shouldn't condemn war.
Cain killed Abel and warfare between human beings began.
If a mother cam kill her own child, the seeds of warfare will be sown by the millions into the next generation.
The late Dr. Conrad Baars, psychiatrist, wrote in his book “Healing the Unaffirmed”: “Abortion is a form of psychic self-destruction, and if practiced on a large scale it will have the gravest consequences for any society which condones it. Abortion is an act of aggression. Abortion is the ultimate denial of the child and the mother....abortion provokes a depression which, in our experience, is malignant and incurable.”
This makes clear that abortion plants the seeds that lead to warfare—just as Mother Teresa said it does.
My Lord and my God-—millions of babies looking forward to life, on the ash-heap, sacrificed to the gods of Molloch.
War is punishment for the sins of man, not the cause of them.