If Mainstream Christian Thought about Abortion is Right

When I consider abortion from a secular view, I see that both the political Right and Left have got some things wrong and some things right.

The Lefties are right when they say that elminating abortion tomorrow would have some catastrophic results. They are right that women suffer infinitely more than men when it comes to the results of “careless sexual behavior.” When they are Lefty Christians, they are right that compassion, mercy, and forgiveness are key components to showing Christian love to sinners and this certainly includes women who’ve had abortions.

The Righties are right that the process of abortion is abominable, it is clearly violence perpetrated upon the only true human innocents. If you have the courage to actually look at how abortions are done—if you literally SEE what it is we do to our conceived children to make sure they are never born—you MUST conclude that it is an incomprehensible cruelty and clearly the murder of human life at its earliest stages. The fact that we can carry it out and call it a right reveals how sick we’ve become, how callous and self-centered. By every rational measure, we understand what we are doing yet we do it in the name of “personal freedom.” Profoundly scary.

BUT!

Here is the great irony.

I have yet to meet a Christian who didn’t believe that the human soul of every aborted fetus gets a Free Pass to heaven (if you have an alternate view, I’d be interested to hear it).

If this is so, what it means is a moral irony of cosmic proportion.

It means that abortion is THE GREATEST MERCY ONE COULD EVER AFFORD ANY HUMAN BEING AS IT IS A 100% CERTAIN PASSAGE TO HEAVEN; WHEREAS BEING BORN LEAVES ONE WITH A TINY FRACTION OF THAT CHANCE!!!

This is a twisted consideration. Oh, I know, men can’t make that judgment but God can. I get that. Still, this means God’s plan of salvation has a MONUMENTALLY more tragic eternal outcome than SIMPLY EXTINGUISHING THE HUMAN RACE VIA ABORTION UNTIL NO ONE IS LEFT.

Explain that for me if you can.

To the last, I grapple with Thee

Religion, for most of my life, has meant a sense that there is a benevolent guardian lingering along the shadowy edges of everyday reality. The God of my Christian upbringing has been a consoling friend, a comfort, and a refuge. I can hardly think of a time when prayer wasn’t a central component of my life.

It still is.

In my adult years I began to struggle with the dual nature of what I’d been taught to believe.

One the one hand, Christianity was a kind of ultimate liberation because of the redemptive act of Christ on the cross. My trusting in his substitionary death meant that all my sin was forever wiped off the Creator’s record books.

On the other hand, most humans would never believe this. So, as it turns out, God’s “wonderful plan of salvation” is an abysmal failure (if statistics matter) and most people will spend eternity sufferring in a really bad place.

With this blog I’m really not looking to be corrected, preached at, denounced, excommunictaed, ridiculed, or condemned; nor do I seek to be validated, emulated, venorated, or celebrated. All of these sorts of input will be allowed in the name of free speech but you may find that I won’t engage in argument or debate (should anyone be so bold as to leave a comment).

Beneath the cool shade of anonymity, I intend to unload here the messy contents of my inmost self with a particular emphasis on the birth, evolution, and transmutation of my religious/spiritual beliefs.

I need to shout at the heavens a little.

Understand, I’m not bragging about being the worst Christian on the planet. I’m sure the self-given title is an exaggeration. Still, it is a gut feeling and it is honest. My purpose is total honesty. With myself and the God of my understanding.

I don’t know where it will lead. But it is a thing I feel I must do.

Here I go.

WCOP