The women at work today were commenting on how it seems to them that we are heading back to the fifties (their era) and as I was doing their hair and listening they would periodically look to me for a sign that I too was listening. I finally said, well just remember that after the fifties came the sixties.
We got to talking Roe Vs. Wade and our clients know that I support Pro-life and Pro-choice concepts but feel that its not something that should be legislated. When Jesus took a look at a coin with Ceasar's face on it and tossed it back to the owner of the coin saying, "Render unto Ceasar what is Ceasar's," I took that to mean that government is in charge of legal issues while God is in charge of spiritual morals etc. I believe this was the first clearly defined precept that shows the separation of church and state.
I believe God gave us free will so why do we keep trying to legislate the conditions of freedom? Ahh darn. My next client arrived. I need to scoot, but would very much like to reason through this again. Later gators.
2 comments:
Freedom is worth fighting for on all fronts. There can be no greater or more important freedom than those concerning one's own body. I think the reason that R-v-W keeps raising it's ugly head is because it really satisfies no one. It says nothing about a baby's right to unconditional love, the right to be seen through the eyes of a parent, the right to see him/herself in the grownups who surround every day life. If you think I am saying that a child born into a world without even the hope for love, respect and dignity may have been better off not having been born at all, you might be right.
To our moral purists who often find themselves supporting freedom for Iraq an yet would deny personal freedom to women--let me ask this question--given that at the moment of conception cell division begins to take place and if left for full term a baby could be born, at what point in the process does God breath into that body it's soul? And is not protecting the soul our most important task?
To our journal keeper--in our country, where we the people make the rules, we might be held to a higher standard than those in the days of Jesus.
Sorry purists. but I see the Bible as a living thing, that changes as we change. S
Whoa! Lookin Good there Chelle!
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