Posted on 06/05/2016 11:45:46 AM PDT by Morgana
Gallup released a new poll this week that examines people’s positions on abortion based on their religious affiliation.
The poll asked people about a series of moral issues, including abortion and doctor-assisted suicide, and then examined their answers based on their religious affiliation. Researchers found major differences among religious groups, with Protestants, Catholics and Mormons taking a pro-life stance and Jews and the non-religious taking a more liberal stance.
Gallup reports:
Jews and those with no religious preferences have virtually identical views on the morality of abortion, doctor-assisted suicide, gay-lesbian relations and cloning animals. Jews are somewhat less likely than nonreligious Americans to believe having a baby outside of marriage is moral, 68% to 80%.
Mormons, Protestants and Catholics believe that abortion, doctor-assisted suicide and cloning animals are not morally acceptable practices. Mormons are more conservative than Protestants and Catholics on abortion, gay-lesbian relations, doctor-assisted suicide and out-of-wedlock births, but not on cloning animals.
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… The United States is one of the more religious western nations, and Americans’ religious identity influences the way they view matters of morality. The Mormon religion and many Protestant faiths promote strict moral codes that frown on abortion and out-of-wedlock births, with those values mostly endorsed by adherents of those religions. Catholic Church doctrine also instructs Catholics how to think about moral issues, but American Catholics’ views on many moral issues, including premarital sex, the death penalty and gay-lesbian relations, do not reflect the church’s positions. Nevertheless, Catholics tend to be more conservative on morality than those with no religion and Jewish Americans.
Mormons were the least likely to say that abortion is morally acceptable (18 percent), followed by Protestants (33 percent) and then Catholics (38 percent), according to the poll. Jewish responders were the most likely to say abortion is morally acceptable (76 percent), with the non-religious at a close second (73 percent).
The poll found that people are less opposed to doctor-assisted suicide, a growing threat in the U.S. The poll showed 30 percent of Mormons, 43 percent of Protestants and 47 percent of Catholics saying it is morally acceptable. Those who are Jewish and non-religious called the deadly procedure morally acceptable 73 percent and 77 percent of the time, respectably.
The poll confirms research from previous studies showing the influence religion has on people’s moral beliefs. The Christian tradition teaches that human lives are intrinsically valuable because they are created in the image of God, and this belief has led to a strong Christian presence in the pro-life movement.
A 2010 Pew poll found a strong correlation between religion and abortion:
On the issue of abortion, 26% overall say religion is the most important influence on their opinion, including 45% among abortion opponents.
Just 9 percent of those who support legalized abortion say religion affected their conclusion about it.
Religion is more influential on abortion views compared with other hot political topics as just 19 percent say religion influenced their stance on the death penalty, only 10 percent said it influenced their stance on poverty programs, 7 percent on immigration issues and just 6 percent on the environment.
The Bible allows for plenty of “innocent life” to be taken. When the Jews took over Canaan, they were directed to kill every man, woman, and child.
You're moving the goalposts. You asserted:
Do you concede that God IS against abortion and the Bible backs that up?
As to God's orders to the Israelites to conquer the Canaanites = an ungodly, pagan and child-sacrificing society - is that not His to decide seeing as He made everything and everyone? Who are we to question why God does what He does? There is a difference between God's commands to annihilate a nation and a man, or woman, taking it upon themselves to murder innocent babies.
Indeed. Shortened,
And let me say, gentlemen, that if we and our posterity shall be true to the Christian religion...we may have the highest hopes of the future fortunes of our country..It will go on prospering and to prosper. But if we and our posterity reject religious institutions and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and recklessly destroy the political constitution which holds us together, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us that shall bury all our glory in profound obscurity.
The fact remains that “innocent blood” and “human blood” seem very flexible. They mean whatever you want them to mean.
Speak for yourself. I believe it is GOD who determines that and abortion is morally wrong - I've showed you where God's word says this. You don't even believe in God so why keep arguing about this? If there is no God then you get to decide if murdering your unborn baby is morally right or wrong.
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It depends upon just WHO gets to actually DEFINE these four terms.
Isaiah 5:20
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,
who put darkness for light and light for darkness,
who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
Just a mass of tissue.
Romans 1:21 - ESV
For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him,
but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
2 Chronicles 7:14
If my people, who are called by my name,
shall humble themselves,
and pray, and seek my face,
and turn from their wicked ways;
then will I hear from heaven,
and will forgive their sin,
and will heal their land.
Thank GOD that our 'god' did not prohibit being wary of 'mexican' judges!
Good explanation!
MAybe that was written down in some ancient text that Rome chose NOT to include in the 'bible'.
Good verse. God has defined what is good and evil. He has also put it into our hearts. We just want to change the rules.
And yet...
Exodus 21:22 (ASV)
And if men strive together, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart, and yet no harm follow; he shall be surely fined, according as the woman's husband shall lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.
She also 'owns' her left hand.
And yet; if she were to go to a 'doctor' to have it removed; she would be viewed as CRAZY!
I’m sure they could find two whackjobs out there who would support anything, even Hitler. Effin’ journalists!
Who said they were innocent?
The god that drowned all but 8 people?
Jews to this day are indeed prohibited from wearing “shatnez” mixed blends. There are many websites and any Orthodox rabbi can explain this.
You can make up your own views of the Bible and history of Jews all you want, but the fact is that Jews have always understood that birth control abortion is specifically prohibited for Jew and non-Jew alike.
Exactly!
If her baby is her “property”, why are pregnant women not supposed to smoke, drink or eat sushi? Aren’t those things her “choice”?
The unborn are seen as the property of the mother who has been given the “right” of life or death over her child.
She also ‘owns’ her left hand.
And yet; if she were to go to a ‘doctor’ to have it removed; she would be viewed as CRAZY!
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