Posted on 02/26/2018 12:01:25 AM PST by Morgana
There seems to be a concerted effort among abortion activists to pervert Christian teachings by using religious arguments to justify killing unborn babies.
A new book by Presbyterian minister Rebecca Todd Peters pushes the notion that killing an unborn baby is not wrong.
In “Trust Women: A Progressive Christian Argument for Reproductive Justice” from Beacon Press, Todd Peters argues for abortion from a religious perspective.
Todd Peters, who also is a professor at Elon University, wrote, “The starting point of our ethical conversation should be women’s lives, [yet] the problem that we face in this country is our failure to trust women to act as rational, capable, responsible moral agents.”
Here’s more from Publishers Weekly’s review of her book:
For Peters, who is open about having had abortions, there are big problems with the way Christians and Catholics frame moral questions around abortion and women. She writes that they employ a “justification paradigm” in which the default expectation is for women to bear children if they get pregnant, and they must “justify their moral decision” to do otherwise. Peters’s book is dense with the history of women’s rights, as well as analysis of patriarchal oppression and the ways the church, legislators, and businesses have tried to control and govern women’s bodies. This theologically astute and social justice–minded book will appeal to progressive Christians who are interested in reclaim-ing abortion as an issue of women’s health and could easily become part of the required reading for an array of university courses.
Elon University had this to say about her book: “Her most recent work is developing a Christian ethic of reproductive justice as the framework for thinking about women’s whole reproductive lives, including everything from access to contraception to fertility treatments to unplanned pregnancies. … This new project also focuses on helping people think in more sophisticated ways about how pregnancy challenges our existing moral categories of personhood and life.”
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Todd Peters is a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), a liberal protestant denomination whose pastors sometimes promote abortion in contradiction to traditional Christian church teachings about the sanctity of life.
Christianity teaches that every human life is created in the image of God and therefore is valuable from the moment of conception to natural death. The Bible describes the “shedding of innocent blood” as one of the seven things that God hates the most, and murder is wrong. The teachings are simple and clear: Human life is valuable, and killing innocent humans is wrong. Why can’t abortion activists put these two teachings together and understand that abortion is abhorrently wrong?
Another evil fake Christian , wolf in sheeps clothing. These baby murderers will find out that there really is a God
So many of them and so sad. They leading souls to hell. Pray for the people in these churches and the people who would read these books. Pray they won’t be fooled.
Yes. “3 Be not many teachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall receive greater judgment.” James 3:1
Can’t be a Christian and a Liberal...
Woman minister... pffft!
Must’ve been knocked up a time or two in her life. Nothing like revising Theology to rationalize one’s sins.
No, the starting point is babies' lives ...
the problem that we face in this country is our failure to trust women to act as rational, capable, responsible moral agents.”
Wrong. That's essentially what Roe v Wade did ... and the result is 3000 babies every day slaughtered on the altar of convenience. Moral agents??? Rational, capable, responsible???
Seriously???
This is why the Presbyterian Church is in the toilet. I can say that because I grew up there.
*Thou shalt not murder*
Is the only argument about abortion a Christians needs.
default expectation is for women to bear children if they get pregnant, and they must “justify their moral decision” to do otherwise.
Well yes to God! If she is a Christian minister she should surely understand that.
Thank you! And thanks for the correct translation, “murder”, instead of the usual,” kill”.
Is the only argument about abortion a Christians needs.
Yep...that covers it.
I’ve identified the problem:
“minister Rebecca”
although this may not be far behind:
“a professor at Elon University”
Add in PCUSA, and you have a hat trick.
They’ve molded Christianity to their leftist needs. They’ve created a version of Christianity that is NON-Christianity and which allows everything that is anti-Christian, to make their consciences feel better.
Unfortunately, the Catholic church, under francis, is doing the same thing.
The PCUSA is a lost denomination that nothing to do with the Gospel of Jesus Christ anymore.
Presbyterian apostates also think female and unrepentant gay pastors are OK. So that sums up the worth of this book.
Fixed it.
Guess that explains why all of the Presbyterian churches around here have been emptying out and closing-up shop.
PCUSA. PCA churches in Western PA have been growing.
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