Well, let me see...I agree with you up to here klaatu 100%...
I dont believe there is a common ground on Iraq... either we belong there doing what were doing for a stated and firm reason... or we dont belong there at all. Energy policy .... I believe energy is vital to the Nations Security..on level with the Military ..therefore it is vital that the Government take a proactive step towards development and eventual commercial use... same with stem cell research... we are losing several major Scientific minds to the European Community because of this single issue... this should be removed from the arena of poitics and replaced with common sense. This is where I am firmly on the side of Science... siding with the position of facts..Scientific Facts.
I agree that Abortion is snuffing out ones own future offspring...But I do not agree that the FEDERAL government should be involved in this....
As a religious person, I think that this is where free will comes in....Jesus described sin as being equal....as an example he compared Adulterers with Murderers and basically said there was NO DIFFERENCE...(His saving Grace redeems ALL sin equally is what the Messiah, the Christ...did for us....is the whoe story of believeth in Him)
With Abortion and with Childbirth, it affects two people in the physical sense. The Mother and the Child. In the old law it is my understanding from reading scripture, the mother is considered of greater significance over the unborn child, in most all instances that I found.
This means something and needs to be taken in to consideration, when it comes to abortion...because both Humans, the child to be and the mother are involved..NOT just the unborn child.
This is not a sin, that affects most of our "Born already society", as with Murder or theft. This is a sin that hurts no one living already, but the parents of the child to be... and it is their sin and their cross to bear, and NO ONE ELSES....
What would God's strength be, without alowing for one to have free will to choose?
I know from very personal experience that life's mistakes are there to learn from...and however repulsive my mistakes may have been to someone like you, they are MY MISTAKES, NOT YOURS!
And without these mistakes of my OWN that have HURT ME only, (not you?)I would have NEVER changed my own life and my own relationship with God, would not have known repentence, or learned what humbling oneself is and would have NEVER truely understood how much Christ loved us to forgive someone LIKE ME, for some of the things I have done. That is the message of Christ, the message of forgiveness, the message of Love.
We need to change people's hearts regarding the consequences of aborting ONES OWN offspring and the joys of motherhood, not GOVERN IT, and if they have chosen to have one, we need to be there for them, if and when it all mentally falls apart for them.... This is where being Godlike or doing God's will comes in to play...it gives us a chance to show them that we follow Christ and forgive them TOTALLY, not point fingers and call them murderers...
or by intimidating them with shouts and with signs and in a few cases with Death of the Doctor....this is doing the bidding of the devil as far as I am concerned and not the bidding of Jesus Christ, who died for ALL SIN....
As far as Social Security, I disagree with you and President Bush's plan...not that I do not believe that there may be benefit to privatize some of this SS money, but because the plan was totally knee jerk andincomplete and I felt the SS did not need a plan that was not comprehensive in looking at the outlook of SS's solvency....and security. Plus it did not address the spending of SS money by congress, putting a lock box on what was being spent today of the SS surplusses.
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