The segue into moral relativism is a natural one I would think Sausage.


In absence of "God's law" or some secular law of the land, every decision made is based on individual need and preference and circumstance. (With laws in place we also weigh the punishment and chance of being caught)


Abortion is only an example of this. I think Michael summed it up really well by saying\inferring this is not a black or white issue. This is not an issue where one law, secular or divine, can possibly cover off all the circumstances, nor one where one over arching principle (all life is sacred) can be applied to all cases.


And exactly BECAUSE this is so, I think it should be left up to the individual couple, or in absence of a relationship, the woman herself, to make the decision and be guided by medical professionals and the broader guidelines in place.


As with EVERYTHING else that we believe about God and what God wants, we must leave it up to God and that individual. If we presume to judge others in God's name and act against people in God's name for any reason, I think we tread on a foundation of faith and belief, not fact and truth. And really, who is to say what the will of God is as applied to a specific situation?


If we believe God will be our ultimate judge, then why not let that process take its due course? Why not trust God to make the appropriate decision with respect to the choices made by individuals?


By all means, disagree where you feel you must. But to take action against someone because they made a decision they must themselves live with, and that we may believe they are accountable to God for, is a totally different matter.


Life is messy. There is ALWAYS a calculus at work. We can only make decisions we can live with. Big Jim and others say taking a life is wrong under any circumstance....well nice words and all, but I am all for Truman having made the hard decision to drop the A bomb on Japan because it saved more lives in the end. As for abortion, who should decide who lives or dies if the mother is in danger of dying because of the unborn child?


Was the 1990s sniper who was killing doctors who performed abortions somehow morally right? Was Ruby morally justified in killing Oswald? We know in both cases it was murder, and against the law of the land...but was it somehow morally right? I suspect for some it was.


Life is messy, choices are messy, situations are messy. Very little is black and white.

If writing ever becomes work I think I'm going to have to stop