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Thank you for your reply!

Indeed, if a woman who has had an abortion does not value the unborn as a human life - or if she does not value any human life - perhaps she would never feel regret.

you are assuming that they had "faith" to begin with.

Indeed, if she had no faith to begin with - the statement would not apply to her, i.e. she would have nothing from which to be driven away.

Personally, I think the fundamentalist christians do more to drive people away from "believing" than anything or anyone else.

You are certainly welcome to your views. I am a fundamentalist and disagree with you in part and agree with you in part.

Back in the days of Jesus, the Pharisees were the fundamentalists. Both then and now, some fundamentalists read the Word with their mind instead of their spirit. That leads to mental gymnastics which can be very troubling, especially to non-believers, IMHO:

And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God? For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.

And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I [am] the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err. – Mark 12:24-27

Reading the Word spiritually leads to the inescapable conclusion that we must love the Lord our God with all our heart, mind, soul, strength and understanding – and love our neighbor as ourselves. I have never known a person – believer or not – to resent such unconditional love.

I don't think that it's God that people have a problem with, of course one would welcome a diety that loved them unconditionally. However, I my opinion, that is not how most of the fundamentalists present themselves. I see them as waiting to punish anyone who they preceive of doing wrong. I see them as more hateful towards their fellow man(women in particular) than loving towards God. It is apparent everyday on the threads on this forum. Actually, it has come to my mind many times reading some thread that there is very little difference between those types of fundamentalist and the Taliban. They seem more intent on the laws and their preceived slights to God for anyone who "sins". It's as if they are the stand in for God,and need to protect him and his laws. I do not want to turn this thread on evolution into a debate about religion.

My orginal point was that one should not bring religion or God into a debate about evolution. Evolution is a sceientific theory, religion is based purely on faith and should not be used in a scientific debate. IMO

Thank you for your posts and your obvious gentle spirit.