Posted on 05/20/2024 9:54:01 PM PDT by Morgana
By slicing and dicing various demographics, Pew Research does some fascinating work, often coming up with conclusions you probably haven’t thought of.
Or maybe not.
“Views about abortion among adults who read scripture at least once a week by parental status” is one of those findings that would conform to your common sense.
By “parental status,” Pew means those adults who have kids under 18 versus those adults who don’t have children (“non-parents”).
The question they asked is the “% of adults who read scripture once a week who say abortion should be…”
For those with minor children
66% say abortion should be “illegal in all/most cases” and 30% say abortion should be “legal in all/most cases.”
For those without children
62% say abortion should be “illegal in all/most cases” and 33% say abortion should be “legal in all/most cases.”
What to think? For starters, the bar is not set terribly high to qualify: you read scripture “at least once a week.”
It would have been interesting to see how different the results would have been if they made the amount of scripture read at twice a week, or four times a week, or even every day.
That having been said, it’s very encouraging that 2/3ds of adults with children and 62% of adults without children who read scripture at least once a week would make abortion illegal in all or most cases.
Pew didn’t test to see whether these adults are activist pro-lifers, or women and men who vote pro-life, or simply people who know in their hearts that babies are not disposable refuse but vibrant, living, co-equal members of the human family.
It goes without saying that you don’t need to read scripture or be “religious” to enlist in the army that is fighting on behalf of unborn children. Our position is rooted in human rights.
As Paul Stark has written
The facts of science (showing that the unborn is a living human organism) combined with sound moral reasoning (showing the equal dignity of every member of the human family) confirm the pro-life position that abortion unjustly takes the life of an innocent human being. This truth — like the truth that slavery is wrong, or that killing homeless people is wrong, or that kindness is good and praiseworthy — is accessible to everyone, regardless of religious conviction
How could people who read the Bible regularly believe elective abortion is okay? let along 1/3 of them? That’s a lot.
It’s statistical, and there is necessarily a lot of slop in the numbers.
Still, it’s indicative of the outcome of getting into the Word of GOD.
The nuances get lost in the shuffle with these surveys.
For example, those who oppose abortion, but approve exceptions in cases of rape, incest, and to save the life of the mother, would all be grouped in as favoring abortion rights.
I wonder if people read the Bible but don’t understand it?
Maybe lowered IQ’s due to the school systems?
Yes, way too much.
That’s it, right there. The indoctrination centers known as public schools.
No. I believe that the Bible is written so that even the simple can gain wisdom.
And at the same time, those who are at the highest intellectual level can be challenged, and also gain wisdom and understanding.
I follow this reading list. It gets you through the Bible once per year, but skips around so you don’t get bogged down for weeks in Leviticus, etc.
https://www.alextran.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Into_Thy_Word_-_Reading_by_Genre.pdf
not surprising.
how do you know the Truth?
ans: get into the presence of Jesus Christ.
What is the easiest way to get into His presence?
ans: read Him.
‘In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God.’
anyone who continues to study Him diligently (and that is OT just as much as NT) is going to get closer and closer to the Truth and Wisdom.
Looks like 1/3 of those who read the Bible regularly don’t comprehend what they are reading. That or they’re retarded.
I would make it illegal in all cases, except for the life of the mother.
Would love the demos on the 33% who are fine with killing babies in the womb.
It’s that 1/3 that shocks me.
The 1/3 is too dense to see the light. Probably longtime believers in “democacy”
“Thou shalt not kill” is properly understood as thou shalt not murder. And a fuller understanding is to promote life.
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