Wouldn’t you like to expose your newer readers to some of your earlier posts that they might never have seen? Or remind your long term followers of posts that they might not remember? Each Friday I will publish a post I wrote on this exact date in a previous year.
How about you? Why don’t you reach back into your own archives and highlight a post that you wrote on this very date in a previous year? You can repost your Friday Flashback post on your blog and pingback to this post. Or you can just write a comment below with a link to the post you selected.
If you’ve been blogging for less than a year, go ahead and choose a post that you previously published on this day (the 15th) of any month within the past year and link to that post in a comment.
This was originally posted on April 15, 2018.
Is God Really Pro-Life?
I saw this bumper sticker above on a car the other day and it made me wonder how someone would know that God is pro-life.
Is this the same pro-life God who killed all the first born males in Egypt so that Pharaoh would “let His people go?”
Is this the same pro-life God who drowned all life on earth except for Noah and his family and the pairs of animals that gathered on Noah’s ark?
The same pro-life God who permitted the Nazis to exterminate more than six million living human beings (including, no doubt, pregnant women) during World War II? Who allowed hundreds of thousands of Japanese (including, no doubt, pregnant women) to die when the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Who stands by twiddling His thumbs while Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad gasses his own people (including, no doubt, pregnant women)?
So where, exactly, do people get the idea that God is pro-life? From the Bible, you say? Oh really?
The God depicted in the Bible is the greatest mass murderer of all time. He killed millions of pregnant women and their fetuses in Noah’s flood. And what about the conquest of Canaan, the incineration of Sodom and Gomorrah, and in numerous other major slaughters described in the Bible? When the entire populations of towns are massacred as part of “God’s will,” you can be sure that pregnant women and their unborn children were among the victims.
Why did God, who allegedly loves the unborn and hates abortion, kill so many unborn children — as well as living children, adolescents, and adults — throughout biblical history? What makes anyone believe that God cares about unborn children?
The anti-abortion movement continues to declare that, in the name of God, abortion is murder. Do those opposing abortion on religious grounds know that the Bible does not consider a fetus to be a full human life or the killing of a fetus to be murder? The Bible requires the death penalty for 60 specified “criminal” violations, but abortion is not one of them.
In fact, nowhere in the Bible will you find any passage that describes a prohibition or penalty for a woman who chooses to terminate her pregnancy. Not a single verse. Yet many politicians and advocacy groups claim that their belief that abortion is murder originated in the Bible.
So where, then, is the evidence that God loves the unborn and disapproves of abortion?
Better yet, where is the evidence that God exists?
I realize that this post may piss some people off and I may even lose some followers as a result. But as Pharaoh said, “So let it be written, so let it be done.”
This, That, and the Other 
Great post! And it’s especially timely now with all these governors signing anti-choice legislation 😞
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Oh well said Fan. For want of a better word …. amen!
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It seems to me, that God makes a lot of “choices” if you see where I’m going with this.
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I heard that there were a lot of sinners in Sodom and Gomorrah.
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Almost as many as in the U.S. Congress.
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This is a very relevant point right now as we see nations engaging in irradicating groups at this moment. I have always been concerned that the end game in reversing R v. W is to set the legal precedent that the government decides. And its reversal will soon be followed by some form of “population control” of poor people of color. Hints at this have been around for a long time. Remember Reagan speaking about welfare moms?
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But as God doesn’t exist even in your eyes, does it matter?
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It matters when a bunch of states have enacted laws banning abortions because of pressures from the religious right.
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That’s something you’ll never stop. The Will of God even be that of a false God is a very strong belief for the most of the time wrong manipulative reasons.
You can’t make many of these zealots see it’s wrong, they use God for their own gains as and when they want.
The church is one of the biggest hypocrits going.
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You’ll get no pushback from me on that, Rory. I fully agree.
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I had a dream, last night, wherein I told some young people they needed to READ the Bible instead of having just ideas about it. It wasn’t on this topic, though.
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When it come to God I thing XTC summed it up perfectly with the line “Did you make mankind after we made you?” in their song Dear God.
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=youtube+dear+god+xtc+vevo&view=detail&mid=972BC7BA5E4915129F67972BC7BA5E4915129F67&FORM=VIRE0&ru=%2fsearch%3fq%3dyoutube%2bdear%2bgod%2bxtc%2bvevo%26form%3dANNTH1%26refig%3df1b82da28f9d4689a5e59d3839479f94
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Good song. Never heard it before.
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Interpretation can result in many outcomes, most of them are justifications 🧐
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It’s Saturday. I guess I missed Friday again. Oh well.
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Well said Fandango!
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