Reply #6: I will be messaging you. [View All]

[The Traveler]

We can continue this on a more private channel.

For you and all of your other "coreligionists", please understand I was merely pointing out what I find to be a stunning dichotomy between Biblical tradition (which represents an injection of reason and compassion for the cultures of those times) and modern practice. To emphasize a derived doctrine (i.e. not one directly rooted in the teachinys) and ignore a primary doctrine (i.e. one explicitly discussed) seems amazingly inconsistent to me, and it puzzles me.

And it makes me wonder ... if the energy that has been devoted to this topic of abortion had been instead focused on caring for the poor ... a task clearly appointed in the Bible ... where would we be now?

I think that is a perfectly appropriate point of discussion, and I raise it without any disrespect.

Trav