Mother Theresa stated at the National Breakfast Prayer on February 3, 1994 to President Clinton and his wife Hillary that the "greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself. And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems."
I'd like some honest answers but please spare me the "it's not considered a child until so many weeks" speech because to a true Christian it's a child at conception!
2007-11-01 05:50:30 · 21 answers · asked by scml14 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
Thanks for all the responses! And yes abortion is about choice, the choice to believe in God and to follow his teachings. "I would rather live my life as if there was a God and to die and find out there wasn't, than to live my life without God and to die to find out there was." For those who are Christian and those who say they are, when you go to vote..... think WWJD!
2007-11-01 06:16:19 · update #1
My main concern is not about Dem or Rep but about the continued decline of acceptable behavior in our society. Mother Theresa WAS right! It starts with the acceptance of a mother killing her unborn child. The mother and child relationship is the greatest relationship of all and as a society we have already become desensitized by the act of abortion. Where is our shock and anger at the destruction of innocent life? Now we hear 11 year olds can get birth control and many in society are "shocked and angry" at the concept. How long before we are desensitized about this too? How low and how far do we travel before we realize its too late? Yes, Christians do have a difficult election ahead of them!
2007-11-01 08:52:10 · update #2
I am a Christian and will not vote for any candidate that supports abortion. It is THE issue for 2008.
2007-11-01 05:55:27 · answer #1 · answered by mustagme 7 · 2⤊ 10⤋
The biggest flaw I find in your argument is that you somehow think you have the right to say who is a true Christian and who is not. Very presumptive and egotistical of you.
But your main question is the root of the Republican candidate problem right now. Just how many evangelicals will stay home if Giuliani is the candidate, and how badly will that hurt the Republicans chances? They don't trust either Romney or Thompson on this issue either. Big problem for the GOP. Big, BIG problem. You are the voter the GOP is worried about and obviously they have good reason to be worried.
EDIT: In response to your add'l details. I never fail to be amazed at the Christian Right's continuation of shooting themselves in the foot. You all hate abortion, okay, got that. But you also hate the idea of birth control, which could alleviate much of the problem involved with getting pregnant to begin with when it's not desired. Why is it that most of you tend to ignore that heavy dependence on birth control could save the lives of many of the unborn by preventing pregnancy in the first place? I think a lot of the problem is that too many who think this way want it both ways and refuse to acknowledge that though abstinence is a good thing, it is not realistic to expect it will be followed by all teens and adolescents. Even good Christian teens will be human and fall prey to their raging hormones. It happens every day.
2007-11-01 06:23:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
This election your choice will be vote for a pro-choice candidate or don't vote. If you don't want to vote that is OK with me. Mother Theresa was wrong, intolerance is the greatest destroyer of peace in the world today. The abortion conflict is between privacy rights and pre-birth human rights. After thousands of years of conflict on the same issue the answer is still not clear but the current pro-choice position has been adopted by the majority. I have sympathy for your position but the results of enforcing it do not bring peace.
2007-11-01 06:45:43 · answer #3 · answered by Marlin B 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am against abortion but I don't mind voting for a pro-choice candidate because I am educated enough to know that the president can do nothing to affect abortion and that Roe vs. Wade will never be overturned. There are other more pressing issues that he actually has control over.
2007-11-01 07:08:24 · answer #4 · answered by Luv2Answer 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Christians, unfortunately, sometimes vote pro choice, largely as a result of the lies that have been propagated by the Pro Death (the opposite of life is death, not choice) people. Some of those lies are:
1. It isnt a baby, it is just like putting a fork in jello. (Not true, it stops a beating heart)
2. The aborted fetus feels no pain. (Not true, later womb studies show that fetuses do feel pain)
3. If they dont have a legal abortion, they will resort to an unsafe back alley abortion.
(Not true. All abortions are unsafe and pose risks to the mother. That same krapola could be applied to drug abuse..if the government doesnt give a druggie cocaine, he will get it elsewhere and may get a disease from it. Of course, there is truth to that, but does our government want to pass out cocaine so that people can be "safe" with this stupidity?)
4. The BIG lie is that a "safe" (MD supervised) abortion will not cause problems. Many, many millions of women have later realized they KILLED THEIR OWN BABY and some of them have wound up killing themself over it. There is no "safe" way of killing anyone, whether they be grown up or in the womb, it is very risky.
2007-11-01 07:04:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
The debate goes on and on. Now the true question is when does a new born get a soul? Is it from the conception or the birth? Now as a christian would you vote for someone who is against abortion but is for worshipping money and does not care about the poor, health care, and love thy neighbor. Would you vote for this person if they are for torture and war? As a christian you can not pick one thing only and decide that is more importain than any other issue. As Jesus said a sin is a sin. There is not one candidate out there that is a true christian. name one that is against war, against abortion, willing to feed the poor, care about the elderly, love everyone and enemies, and ect... So what you are saying is that you would vote for Satan if he was against abortion. PS if the republicans are against abortion howcome when they were in power in the whitehouse and congress they did nothing? Thats because they get votes by saying they are against abortion. As jesus says beware of false prophets.
2007-11-01 06:05:45 · answer #6 · answered by john a 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Apparently the Clintons did not really HEED Mother Theresa's admonition, for they still support abortion !! I could never vote for anyone who supports abortion. May the Lord have mercy, and send a candidate on the scene who is worthy of our vote......who will not okay the killing of unborn babies !!! God, have mercy on our nation.
2007-11-01 11:45:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well it's a choice a chocie to kill a baby.
Like it is a choice to shot someone in the head albeit a bad one.
We allow women to kill their childern in the USA after they are born post partal depression or hovwer iit is spelled.
In the 70's we were determined to get religion into Russia now we can't even practice it here the issue is largerthan abortion it is the slow pathway to out lawing Christianity. We also talked about this in the 70's but there were just not enough people to push the issuse.
I recall taking a bible to school to read and even try to be protected but it was treated like a porno mag. by the VP.
Abortion is small part of the war on religion.
2007-11-01 05:59:56 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋
How can a christian vote that way...the question may be, are you a christian?
Got a great website...
http://valuesvoterdebate.com/
Very informative-get the answers from the candidates themselves...the ones who chose to show up to answer the tough "Moral" questions!
You can get copies of the debate and make as many copies as you want to pass it around!
Mitt Romney is a flip flop, clinton-I won't even capitalize her name...there are good ones out there it really is not the ones they are waving in your face!
If The Christian come together and look to God, He will reveal to us the one to vote for...He will be on the ballot-it is up to us to get him in office!
2007-11-02 06:59:36 · answer #9 · answered by Blaze 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Let me begin by saying I am a rock-solid conservative, a Christian, and am personally opposed to abortion. However, it is but one issue among many that confront me when I am choosing a candidate for public office, and I think I can make a fair case for why Christians need to look at the broader picture here.
Abortion is not the only issue in which governent interfaces with your faith. For example, one might easily assert that a growing federal government which saps the lifeblood from the economy, and uses taxes to subsidize the dissolution of families by taxing married couples disporportionally and paying larger subsidies to single-parent households on welfare presents an enormous threat to Christian ideals of family.
As generally speaking it is the Democratic candidates which promote increased taxes to support these sort of programs, and who are promising to expand them if they gain the White House, how can you justify, as a Christian, playing any role that results in them expanding their political control?
What it comes down to at the end of the day, is that the Republican Party needs to put forward the strongest, most electable candidate it can to attempt to retain control of the Executive Branch. If that candidate is not "right" on abortion in your view, he likely will still be more "right" on such other issues as you should be giving equal if not greater weight.
You can, of course, look at the political landscape through the prism of one issue, and withhold your vote and your support if that one issue is not addressed to your satisfaction. And then, after Mrs. Clinton is elected, you may sit at home and smugly watch as she works to remake the whole of our society in a manner that I think will not be very much to your liking, knowing you played a role in her ascension to power.
If you advocate the transformation of the Republican Party into a one-issue party, the only thing you will in the end acheive is a narrowing of its appeal to the point that it becomes an ineffectual political entity. Then you will see anti-Christian policies in government the likes of which you have not heretofore even contemplated.
2007-11-01 06:40:01 · answer #10 · answered by anonymourati 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Just because your a christian doesnt mean everybody else is, and tolerance is another moral teaching stressed in teh bible. Just because an abortion is legal doesnt mandate that you HAVE to get an abortion. Its simply giving a person the personal choice to decide for themselves, and thats part of what this country was founded upon.
2007-11-01 05:59:25 · answer #11 · answered by Austin n 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋