Suppose a woman is pregnant and decides it is not a good time for her to have a baby. She does not go to a doctor and get an abortion; she prays to lose the baby. She actually does lose the baby within a week of this prayer.
I will also mention that she is a believer- that is to say, in her mind the prayer caused her to lose the baby.
And, she also believes (used to tell her daughter this as an explanation of why daughters shorts had to come below her knees) that if you think a thing, it is the same sin as if you actually did it. For example, if a man looked at said daughter and thought of premarital sex with her, he had sinned the same as if he'd attacked and raped her. (And if the girl caused these thoughts by wearing 'innapropriate' clothing, then she had caused the man to sin and therefore was equally guilty of the sin, but that's not relative to this question.) So- is the woman as guilty of murder as if she had scraped herself out with a clothes hanger?
2006-09-18
06:24:55
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