Santorum to ban pornography if elected!

[richardhutnik]

bouzane said:

sperrico87 said:

bouzane said:
I saw some discussion about abortion so I have to make a quick point. A friend of mine pointed out the fact that the Bible states that life is in the blood and that there is no blood in the fetus until the start of the second trimester. I tried to confirm this independently but my Google-fu is weak. :/

The Bible states of LOT of things.  Best not to get into all of that. If we're to do everything the Bible says, life would be a lot different than what it is today.  So let's not pick and choose which little sentences to follow and then ignore others that we don't agree with.

Either ignore the Old Testament or strictly adhere to everything contained therein. I hate cafeteria religions in which people pick and choose what rules they want to follow. Deciding to obey whatever is convenient while ignoring the rest. Even this wouldn't be so bad if these people weren't often so judgmental. Oh well, it's not like the Old Testament has anything to do with the teachings of Christ whatsoever.

Christ teachings (my assessment of them at least, and hopefully in keeping with Christian thought) do a summing up of what the Old Testament said, if it operates in a context of people not living in a political theocracy where people don't have control over the rules.  The heart of what the teachings said are what are drived at, particularly from what the prophetic texts of the Old Testament were on.

I do believe also that cafeteria religion is one of the most disrespectful things that can be done.  People should have enough respect to let the religion say what it says and leave it at that.  Of course, there is practical considerations on actually doing it, when faced with conflicting demands, but that doesn't mean one can't respect the religion.  People to use, for example, the Christ and Christianity as an escape pass from Hell, and then go around and selectively pick what they want, and beat those over the head of those who disagree.  They will dogmatically be set to defend something, and then prooftext to justify it.  Doing that is some of the worst things that can be done and does damage to what a religion stands for and thus is one of the most disrespectful things that can be done.