The following text was recently submitted as an
ad to several conservative college newspapers. The
idea was to challenge
David Horowitz's charges that many traditionally
liberal college newspapers are guilty of
censorship for refusing to run his ads against
reparations for
slavery... or at least to show that traditionally
conservative school papers are equally guilty given proper
provocation. It actually made it in to 1 (the
Hillsdale College Collegian) of the 11 (9%)
targeted papers, compared to Horowitz's 14 of 48 (29%). Since the author, David Mazel, was paying money to have this seen, I hope it's not destructively violating
copyright to air it here, since the argument's rather clever. (Several of my friends have pointed out that the
Bible verses used are taken completely out of
context -- I haven't personally checked to see how reading the surrounding verses would affect
interpretation on each. I was amused nonetheless.)
According to the Holy Bible
abortion is not murder.
THERE ARE ONLY TWO passages in the Bible that speak directly to the issue of
abortion, and both indicate
unequivocally that abortion is not murder:
* In
Ex. 21:22-25,
God tells us what to do if a man who is
brawling knocks against a
pregnant woman. If the woman dies, the principle of "life for life" is invoked and the man responsible for her death must be killed. If she lives but has a
miscarriage, then the death of the
fetus is to be compensated for by the payment of a fine, as demanded by the woman's
husband.
Thus has God revealed the status of the
unborn fetus: it is not an
independent, full-fledged
human life, whose destruction amounts to murder. It is a thing owned by the woman's husband-a thing whose loss, like that of any other thing, may be
compensated for with money.
* In
Num. 5:11-31, God commands a husband to get an abortion for his wife if he suspects she has been
impregnated by another man. A
priest is to make her drink a
potion and tell her, "If any man other than your husband has had
intercourse with you, may the LORD make an example of you . . . by bringing upon you
miscarriage and untimely birth."
To deliberately cause a miscarriage is to perform an abortion. And who brings about this miscarriage? Who performs this abortion? It is the LORD who does so. God is an abortionist.
THOSE INTENT ON
MISCONSTRUING the Bible for
political ends will no doubt persist in
denying the facts. But it is time for these
anti-abortion zealots to admit that their position
contradicts God's moral law as revealed in the Bible. They should stop misrepresenting the biblical truth.
In fact, God is an abortionist.
* For further information contact Americans for Biblical Truth at bibletruth1@hotmail.com *
text found at http://www.angelfire.com/co/eveningsun/biblead1.html