Posted on 12/08/2014 4:10:19 PM PST by Morgana
total nonsense...contraceptives today have to be more than 95% effective....and have been for years.
Speaking of spewing BS...
7x70
hahahaha!!! you're trippin'...
Well said. Yes, I've seen many such threads here.
that has not been the experience of the gals i have counseled... especially Christians... and having sex outside of marriage was something they wanted to hide... they were not proud of it... they did not want it to be known... therefore, there was no way they could have a baby... i am talking about Christian girls... girls who were involved in church--not just church goers... parents were involved, friends, etc--all involved in church...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAFZ2jyVxVs
AHA Nebraska Church Repent Project
This is a pro life group that protests churches that are Pro choice and support abortion. **warning barf alert**
That rang several bells in my head also
Jesus let them, but didn’t He also mention that they sould sin no more? Just curious.
One of the other reasons I have heard is that often the Christian university’s reactions to a pregnant unwed student is part of the problem.
When a girl turns up pregnant, she is kicked out of the school, and sent home in shame, all her plans and degree demolished, but almost always, nothing is done about the BOY who got her pregnant.
He is not forced to leave the school, he can finish his degree program and sometimes go on into the ministry. His whole life isn’t ruined by the episode.
It’s that double standard again that is so reprehensible.
That girl did not get pregnant in a vacuum. It takes two and yet she’s punished because of the simple fact that she’s carrying the baby. They BOTH committed the sexual sin and BOTH should have the same consequences but it doesn’t happen. But he doesn’t bear the stigma like she does and yet I’ll bet dollars to donuts that the reason they had sex in the first place was HIM putting the pressure on her to do it.
I still don’t believe that in general, the girl initiates sex in a dating relationship. There is too much of the emotional tie in it for girls to take it so lightly.
So, for the girl to not have her life ruined, she will often succumb to the pressure to have an abortion.
And sadly only find out later the true price that is paid when the bill comes due.
Because I am quoting you...
“Sin”... (mean like “go thou and murder no more”?)...
“One of the other reasons I have heard is that often the Christian university’s reactions to a pregnant unwed student is part of the problem.
When a girl turns up pregnant, she is kicked out of the school, and sent home in shame, all her plans and degree demolished, but almost always, nothing is done about the BOY who got her pregnant.
He is not forced to leave the school, he can finish his degree program and sometimes go on into the ministry. His whole life isn’t ruined by the episode.
It’s that double standard again that is so reprehensible.”
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I was just talking about this to someone to night GERRY.
I first heard about a story like that back in the 80’s on “Focus on the Family”. One Christian University had to stop doing just that because they found out the women were getting abortions. Of course they were! Christian Universities were not cheap. If it’s a toss up between loosing all their credits and tuition money and a baby they will get an abortion. Plus like you said the boy was never punished.
I tell you this. I heard a Protestant preacher once say “Don’t chase your daughter to the abortion clinic”. He knew the score.
Not to Peter in that context
I often get the impression that the general belief of “the right,” as illustrated by the FR sample, is that both abortion and childbirth are “really” wrong, while fornication and adultery are only “technically” wrong. (It’s just a piece of paper, after all.)
In my opinion, this makes it unlikely that “the right” as a political movement is going to generate many productive ideas to reduce either abortion or out-of-wedlock child-bearing. If you love the cause but bemoan the outcome, you’re going nowhere.
I really wish you would refrain from making so much sense. ;) Preach on Sister!
This article is irresponsible, to begin with.
There’s a lot in it that could be commented upon, but for the moment, at least, I’ll just say that it’s wrong how the author uses the opinions of one “recent graduate” (and to some extent, of the pastor, as well) as if her perceptions can simply be taken not only as representative of the women at this college, but apparently also of all college-educated or even college-aged Christian women. One single former student = all young Christian women.
But even worse than just taking this one woman’s opinion as “gospel,” is that she gives, and he prints, without any words of caution, her numerical estimate of “one in three” of the women, and maybe higher. (And “one in three?” That’s the title of a Planned Parenthood and/or “pro-choice” campaign right now, so was this woman a liberal on the Christian campus?) Such a “statistic,” if retold a few times without the source, can easily be mistaken as coming from an actual poll of the women on this one campus, or even from all Christian women of this age.
Certainly the picture isn’t very good anywhere in North America or Europe, but one person’s perceptions on something like this cannot simply be taken as the truth. And even though she’s anonymous, the question isn’t even asked if she has had an abortion herself (or did I miss that?)
Either way, though, the “statistic” she provides comes from her own life experiences with her tiny circle at college, and the article even says almost nothing about this one woman, and her actual beliefs. But places like Huffington Post are full of articles by or about ex-Christians who grew up Christian, with many even going to Christian colleges, and later saying they were atheist or doubters since they were children.
And, not all “Christian families” are the same, either. Once I became a part of evangelical churches, and began to know other people, and saw so many were parents, I also saw that however strong or weak (and sometimes possibly not even there) their faith was, their children would be influenced in their view of Christianity by that faith (or lack of it) in their parents, all though they were all in the same church.
All in all, this article is highly irresponsible and should not have been published as is. Christian journalism is so often very good, especially in bringing light to what secular journalism has wanted to hide, but this article is a definite exception to that.
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