The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #55956   Message #881507
Posted By: Sam L
03-Feb-03 - 01:30 PM
Thread Name: BS: Roe v. Wade: Last Anniversary?
Subject: RE: BS: Roe v. Wade: Last Anniversary?
CD, as a reply to criticisms, all that is sort of a complicated non-reply. Explaining the difference between objective and subjective ideas of good and evil at great length does nothing to reply to the basic criticism of your posture. Lots of people feel and believe they know lots of assorted objective truths, and some sound a little more convincing, careful, and thoughtful, when they say so.

   Almost any comparison one can make with abortion tends to seem facile (even if it didn't sound like an old episode of Star Trek) because there's really just nothing else like it to compare it with. It's never really quite the same thing.

   The gist of the criticism is Who are you to decide for someone else? and unless you think you've provided a glowing illustration of a higher moral insight, I don't see how you think you've replied to that. Don't think, feel--feel the way I think you should feel. That's your answer, boiled down. Not that there's anything wrong with asking people to see your side of things, but I do think it could be more direct, and shorter.

   I'm sure Beccy is right that "judge not" is mis-used, that it doesn't mean Christians shouldn't have opinions. But it still probably means---something... ? invokes a caution, advises a degree of humility, at some point, somewhere between having no opinion, and presuming to speak for God (or deliver a general objective truth about what other people should do)... in a circumstance one is not likely to find oneself in? Personally I feel that men might back off a notch on this one, and I think it does make lots of sense to lend support to another side of an argument than what one personally feels. To me, that's just taking it more seriously than winning an argument, and wanting to be "right".

You seem to have found a comfortable corner to feel high moral sentiment about a particular issue. I allow myself to do that sometimes, too, but try to keep it to smaller, expedient things, like using turn-signals. That's something I feel pretty sure about, and feel comfortable delivering the commandment.
                                  use your turn-signals, Fred