Pence calls out Roberts

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(08-06-2020, 01:38 PM)Dill Wrote: Just to be clear, "pro life" ideology is not "Christian policy."

It is not endorsed by all Christians nor supported by the Bible (so far as I can remember).  Abortion was debated in the early Christian church for centuries, with differing views on when ensoulment occured (conception or later) and whether abortion was a sin at all, and if so, to what degree. Augustine did not believe the fetus had a soul at conception, and neither did Aquinas, who adopted an Aristotelian view of development stages. (The Church's Medieval injunction was, in my view, an alignment with feudalism, with the conception of a population viewed like cattle, with no right to limit production of serfs/workers, an extension of the Roman view of abortion as the father's "right to choose.") The purist position we see now really didn't appear until after 1869.

In the 40s and 50s it was not an issue for Evangelicals at all. It became an issue as the Evangelical movement was steadily politicized. during the '60s and especially the '70s.

Neo-cons and neo-Jim Bakker style Christians.  I should have specified.  Today's christians would cheer the Romans beating Jesus to death for being a status quo challenging snowflake thug. 

Speaking of feelings?  Handing out free healings?  Love they enemy surrendering is so unappealing.