Re: [media] Spam Punishment Doesn't Fit the Crime
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named in the Torah and is, irrefutably, an abomination in the eyes of
God.
Is abortion in the same category?
As a global civilization, here in the first nanoseconds of the 21st
century the present consensus would appear to be --yes, no and/or
maybe--. Half of us believe that abortion is in no way comparable. Half
of us believe that it is. To me, all that is relevant is God's opinion
and -- since medical abortion evolved well after the death of God's Last
Messenger and Seal of Prophets, Muhammad (peace be upon him) in 632 CE --
that is unknown to us. It is unknown to me and it is unknown to you and
it is unknown to Pope John Paul II, his predecessors and his successors.
Likewise with God's opinion on condoms (ribbed, coloured or plain) and
birth control pills.
On the Last Day when all is made plain to us, I would not be terribly
surprised -- from my present vantage point of self-admitted absolute
ignorance -- to find that abortions and birth control will be indictable
offences for some and non-indictable offences for others, based on God's
superior and perfect knowledge of each individual . . . just as I would
not be terribly surprised to find that abortion and birth control will
be deemed murder, High Crimes against one's own soul and (far worse) the
soul of another . . . or to find that abortion and birth control are
considered lesser transgressions against one's own soul: more comparable
to, say, smoking than to, say, murder. Genuine faith in God, it seems to
me, brings one face-to-face with the profound level of one's own
ignorance about what is right and what is wrong, post-632 CE. The fact
that the various church hierarchies refuse to acknowledge their own
ignorance in no way alters my own belief that we are all ignorant in
these areas. But, the bottom line, to me is a) we won't