But it's always about picking and chosing. That's why I won't call myself a Christian anymore. I saw too much hypocrasy. Those same people that say homosexuality and abortion are sins because of Biblical references leave out other laws that God writes. For example, if a virgin is raped she's supposed to marry the rapist after he pays her father. Also, women are supposed to keep their hair covered at all times. Of course the Bible says, Let he who is without sin cast the first stone and anyone that reads the Bible or studys it knows that Jesus died so that Christians can go to Heaven because no Christian is without sin, therefore, Christians have no right to judge homosexuals or people that have abortions because they themselves are sinners. But, alas, that's never going to happen, now is it?

The thing is, a lot of those rules made sense in the context of the time.

Then what's to say other laws weren't more for that time than now?

The thing is, a lot of those rules made sense in the context of the time. Take the masturbation is a sin rule. Back then, the Israelites were a minority. And they didn't know men produce semen every 24 hours - they thought you could run out. Therefore masturbationbating would be wasteful and could lead to them dying out.
these days we know men don't run out of sperm and in fact their bodies get rid of sperm in wet dreams if they don't care of them theirselves, so forbiding them to masturbate seems silly. Back then, they didn't know.

Same for the rule about the girl marrying her rapist - back then, it was a twisted sign of respect. See, if a girl wasn't a virgin, no one else would marry her. The marriege was making sure the girl would be taken care of. Now no one would think to make a rule like that [hopefully].

Yeah, Mouthpiece: I wonder if you're pro-death penalty? Not saying you are, but wouldn't that be considered murder too? So why is it that so many people who claim a religious basis against abortion also seem to be pro-capital punishment?

but when it comes down to it, the law should be one that is basically secular and doesn't impose one group's religion on the whole population.

A fetus conceived from a rape is "innocent" but you have a whole group of pro-lifers who are ok with abortion in that case. That's never made any sense to me and no argument explaining it has ever made sense either. Never will.

It's such a complicated and personal decision - the best reason why it should be left in the hands of the individual and not dictated by a Supreme Court Justice.

A person being forced to bear a rape child is so extreme that even a lot of pro-lifers won't insist on it. Plus I'm not sure everybody really feels a rape child IS innocent. I don't mean in what they think they feel, rather in what they really feel deeper down.

A fetus conceived from a rape is "innocent" but you have a whole group of pro-lifers who are ok with abortion in that case. That's never made any sense to me and no argument explaining it has ever made sense either. Never will.

It's all about punishing the woman for having sex for fun.