Wee Sprout 02

Randall Balmer, in his very powerful and thoughtful book "Thy Kingdom ," makes a very interesting, and yet puzzling dichotomy, when arguing . . . not exactly FOR abortion, but against the reasoning man's objection to abortion. I think Balmer is a good thinker and probably even a better writer (although he considers himself more an "historian," I find that quite a lot of his history is more tradition than actual history), but he proposes that instead of worrying so much about abortion, that Christians had better think more about DIVORCE. Balmer feels that the Bible says nothing about abortion, but is good and plenty against divorce.

See, to me, those are arguments not even related to each other. I think it might be better to say that instead of worrying so much about abortion, Christians should pay more attention to the fact that men often, historically speaking, KILL their wives. Balmer even hints that he does not like the very thought of abortion, but then hints on top of it that divorce is somehow worse than abortion, whereas I can't see it even

being in the same ballpark (if such things were sports).

It is playing on the belief that LIFE begins when the umbilical cord is cut, and the baby is thus separated from the mother. But anyone who has had a miscarriage could make quite a powerful argument against such bizarre thinking (and it is almost bizarre for me to even state it is bizarre thinking, as perhaps half the population of the world believes that life begins only after the umbilical cord is cut). Plus, when someone kills a mother, and also kill the mother's unborn baby, the criminal is generally charged with double homicide (not as one murder and one "taking away a woman's choice").

God DOES make it clear that He does not appreciate divorce, but then again, Biblically speaking, He provides for a Biblical grounds for divorce, that being fornication (Matthew 19:9). Whereas the Sixth Commandment (see Exodus 20:13) is fairly potent proof against abortion, under any conceivable condition.

- Oz Moses

“Truth that has merely been learned is like an artificial limb, a false tooth, a waxen nose; it adheres to us only because it is put on. But truth acquired by thought of our own is like a natural limb; it alone really belongs to us.”

- Arthur Schopenhauer

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