Editing Talk:Fast Fridays: 30 Minutes for God (section)

== Christian and pro-Abortion?  ==

We are all sinners. At some point, we regularly compromise our Christian principles out of pride, lust, fear, or some form of hypocrisy.

Abortion, however challenges a Christian believer in it far more profoundly.

Take the death penalty: scripture neither condemns it nor hides it: it's all over the Bible, especially that little part about the Crucifix. Think about it: Christ does not condemn the execution itself (a grotesque and cruel punishment), and neither do the Apostles. Peter condemns the Jews killing God, not the two thieves. The Catholic Church burned heretics starting in 1022 and various principalities adopted it as matter of law in the 13th century. (Joan of Arc, of course, was burned at the stake; the remains of proto-Protestants John Wycliff were exhumed and burned in 1428 and Jan Hus was burned at the stake for heresy in 1415; others were burned for crimes other than heresy, such as treason, sodomy, bestiality, witchcraft, with that last conducted mostly under protestant regimes; England outlawed burning in 1676 under Charles II.)

Yet, one gets a sincere hatred of putting a fellow man to death. However, to love you neighbor is not incompatible with the consequences of sin. Sin is, after all, death.

With abortion, there is no ambiguity: the infant committed no crime; the Bible condemns child sacrifice; and Scripture is clear that the life of the soul starts at conception. Look no further than the Annunciation.