I'll have to think about your thoughts on other religions some more. I find the study of religion fascinating myself. I don’t know you personally and I certainly am hoping this doesn’t come across as judgmental towards you. But I’m seeing you don’t give Christians a lot of credit for the amount of compassion and love they can offer along with their ability to not judge someone else’s sins. Me? I’ve got plenty of them…I’m the worst person I know. LOL I can never judge the condition of ones soul, but I can judge their actions or my own as “good” or “evil”. I don’t know too many bad “Christians” myself, and if they are bad “Christians”, they aren’t really Christians. Mostly I know very loving, compassionate ones.
The rock thing bothered me the most. Not because I’m opposed to other religions, but because the idea of a ROCK offering some kind of healing is ludicrous to me. A hard, cold rock in exchange for a baby is repugnant to me. Of course, it has something to do with my own personal belief that only THE “spirit” can provide comfort. Why wouldn’t they offer a woman a cross? Would it be because she would be reminded of what the man who died on it, said about murder? To me that would suggest, deny God (the Judeo Christian God) and everything he says, and you won’t suffer the guilt he imposes. Deny God and killing your unborn is OK. You know, the Ninevites didn’t know the Hebrew God, and they still felt guilt and shame when they were “slapped in the face” with their sins. It doesn’t matter what God you know…..you are still going to have feelings of guilt. Soooooooo…..offer her a rock and it will help her “not feel guilty”. A ROCK isn’t going to make it go away. There is such a thing as appropriate shame. That’s what is wrong with this country, IMHO. People have no “appropriate” shame for their bad behavior.
Deny God and you can do whatever you want and not feel guilty. Guilt, just like any other emotion, is God given. When the spirit is ready, it will move your heart into action of repentance or amend making. Existence of guilt can also keep you from doing something wrong. If human beings had no guilt at all, we would all be sociopaths, and anarchy would reign. Human beings would cease to exist without the feeling of “guilt” or "shame". Of course, that's just my humble opinion.
I have never personally witnessed a woman being “slapped in the face with guilt”. I suppose it happens. When I hear of or personally witness a woman confessing her abortion, I hear sad tears and I see arms wrapped around the poor woman. I’ve never seen smoke coming out of someone’s nose while condemning the woman to the innermost parts of hell. I think the Pro-Choice movement would have the world believe this happens.
About being closed or open minded. Abortion is probably the ONLY thing I will NEVER “open” my mind for. I’ve made up my mind. To be open minded for me personally would be questioning my stance. I do not question my stance. I believe it is wrong and I will always believe it is wrong. Wrong for the baby and the mothers life. Anything else, I can be swayed with a logical argument (not easily, but there is a chance). LOL