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- From: gjh@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (Galen J. Hekhuis)
- Subject: Re: Christian Pro-Choicers
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.164056.19347@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Organization: University of Virginia Health Sciences Center
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- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 16:40:56 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan9.055403.19129@noao.edu> forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne Forgach) writes:
- }From article by gjh@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (Galen J. Hekhuis):
- }> As long as we are supposing about what Jesus would or would not do,
- }> I thought I'd play too...
- }>
- }> In article forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne Forgach):
- }>
- }> }Can you honestly picture Jesus Christ helping some woman abort a child
- }> }that His beloved Father is in the active process of knitting together?
- }>
- }> By the same token, can you honestly picture him an advocate of any
- }> secular law to attempt to ban or restrict abortion?
- }
- }
- }Sure: "Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's, but render unto God
- }that which is God's."
- }
- }He had no problem with earthly authorities. He even submitted himself
- }to trial and execution by them.
-
- In case you hadn't noticed, Suzanne, advocacy is a little different
- than submission. To make it a bit clearer, you can submit (even
- very peacefully) to something which you do not advocate.
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