RE: Why is religion in the business of moral policing?
August 3, 2017 at 11:52 am
(This post was last modified: August 3, 2017 at 12:07 pm by Dropship.)
Another possibly valid reason for aborting might be if the father is a nasty sonofabitch who's likely to vent his spite on the kid if the mother gives birth to it.
I had first-hand experience of that myself, my parents had a shotgun wedding and I don't know if they discussed aborting me, but I had to suffer years of verbal cruelty from my evil shit of a dad all through my childhood, he once kicked me like a dog for throwing orange peel down the toilet, and he used to find fault with everything I did, and it's taken years to patch over the holes he shot in my self-confidence.
No doubt in his twisted way he blamed me for forcing him to marry my mother, whereas the blame was all his for not keeping his flies zipped up with her in the first place..
I was sent to Sunday school one afternoon as a kid but it bored the krap out of me so I refused to go again..
As for the soul, yes our bodies are simply "spacesuits" for it, then when the body dies, the soul flies!
It's the final step in human evolution, when we transcend from soft squishy bodies into purely spiritual life-forms-
"In the twinkling of an eye the dead shall be raised imperishable and we shall be changed" (1 Cor 15:52)
"So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable...it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.. flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God" (1 Cor 15:42-50)
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I had first-hand experience of that myself, my parents had a shotgun wedding and I don't know if they discussed aborting me, but I had to suffer years of verbal cruelty from my evil shit of a dad all through my childhood, he once kicked me like a dog for throwing orange peel down the toilet, and he used to find fault with everything I did, and it's taken years to patch over the holes he shot in my self-confidence.
No doubt in his twisted way he blamed me for forcing him to marry my mother, whereas the blame was all his for not keeping his flies zipped up with her in the first place..
(August 3, 2017 at 11:50 am)vorlon13 Wrote: So, where do people learn of the Immortal Soul and how it works if their instruction at Sunday School was deficient ?
The BIBLE !!
I suggest you start reading now.
I was sent to Sunday school one afternoon as a kid but it bored the krap out of me so I refused to go again..
As for the soul, yes our bodies are simply "spacesuits" for it, then when the body dies, the soul flies!
It's the final step in human evolution, when we transcend from soft squishy bodies into purely spiritual life-forms-
"In the twinkling of an eye the dead shall be raised imperishable and we shall be changed" (1 Cor 15:52)
"So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable...it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.. flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God" (1 Cor 15:42-50)
