Is there an Anti-Abortion Dogma in the Bible? Is the
Christian God pro-Life?
Written May 7, 1991, but ignored.
To
Mr. Hironobu Ishikawa
Editor
The Daily Yomiuri
1-7-1 Otemachi
Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo, 100-55
Letter to The Editor
In his appeal to journalistic integrity and objectivity, the Christian missionary Isaac Graham wants us readers to know that the pro-abortion article by Frances Kissling is not shared by all. As if we didn't know that!
We all know that the churches are against abortion. Although I understand that sexuality without guilt and worries is bad for the churches' business I would like the readers to know that God (if you have need for such an almighty father imago) himself is clearly pro-choice, actually, he is the greatest abortionist himself causing the lost of more than half of the fertilized ova before the end of the first trimester. And even if we tumble down the stairs from science to theology and take a look at the bible, we will not find an anti-abortion dogma. But we can easily deduce for example from Deut. 21:18-21, which allows the stoning of a disobedient son and from Deut. 13:6-11, which tells us that we should surely kill our children, relatives or friends for a difference of religion, that God is not too concerned about our or our children's life. Also Psalm 137:9 "How blessed will be the one who seizes and dashes your little ones against the rock" doesn't sound pro-life to me.
What is more, according to Deut. 28:49, 53, 55,
57 it seems to be OK to eat one's own newborn babies together
with the afterbirth during a famine, the lord even threatens to
create such a situation: "The Lord will bring a nation
against you from afar,... Than you shall eat the offspring of
your own body, the flesh of your sons and daughters... ...so that
he will not give even one of them any of the flesh of his
children, which he shall eat,... ...and toward her afterbirth
which issues from between her legs and toward her children whom
she bears; for she shall eat them secretly for lack of anything
else." Good appetite! Of course unlike the author of the
Deuteronomy I do not advocate eating little children, only legal
abortion.
I think we should see everything in proper
relation: The churches have a long history of torturing and
suppressing women and forcing women to have an illegal abortion
with a cloth hanger is as close as they can get nowadays to witch
burning.
The basic cause for the damage of our environment is: TOO MANY PEOPLE. If the churches succeed in their crusade against abortion, future generations will have to live in a hell worse than the Middle Age, of course the churches may very well have their heyday again.
We should show our gratitude to women who
abort. They are saving us from hell.
Holger Hermann Haupt,
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