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From: kiki@isieng.UUCP
Newsgroups: talk.religion.misc,soc.women,talk.abortion
Subject: Re: Feminism and Abortion
Message-ID: <313@isieng.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 2-Oct-86 13:33:49 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  2 13:33:49 1986
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References: <2710@burdvax.UUCP> <5833@ut-sally.UUCP> <311@isieng.UUCP> <50@oliveb.UUCP>
Reply-To: kiki@isieng.UUCP (Kiki Herbst)
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In article <50@oliveb.UUCP> rap@olivej.UUCP (Robert A. Pease) writes:
>In article <311@isieng.UUCP> kiki@isieng.UUCP (Kiki Herbst) writes:
>>As we develop our life with God as the center, we begin
>>to approach life in a different way: The way God approaches life.  Now imagine
>>the ideal situation where everybody reacted to life in this way, wanted the
>>best for others.  If everybody lived their lives in that way, I think we'd
>>have a pretty good idea of what heaven is like.
>>
>>Kiki
>
>The intention is a nice one, but  the  idea  frightens  me.  My  first
>question,  of course, is who is going to decide whats best for me?  If
>I am to decide, then you need to know of my decision and abide by  it.
>If  you  are  to  decide, then I am to be bound by something that will
>very likely cause me great amounts of discomfort.
>
>Be careful with this  idea.  It  can  be  easily  used  to  justify  a
>lifestyle  akin to that depicted in "1984".  I think what has a better
>outcome is to live and let live.  Its like I tell my kids, "Don't  you
>worry  what  she's  doing,  you take care of yourself and let her take
>care of herself."
>-- 
>					Robert A. Pease

That is exactly my point in why we should base our decisions on what God
wants.  Every person can make his or her decisions based on many different
elements.  Take the extreme example of Hitler who slaughtered the Jews
because he thought he was doing the right thing.  Everybody else thought
he was doing the wrong thing!  People make decisions based on many different
factors.  But they are not always the right decisions.  One person's decision
on what is right may be completely different to what is really right.  Jesus
said that He is the Truth.  If Jesus is God (like he said) than He knows
what is right.  If we base our decisions on His Truth, then the will not
fluctute with the whims of man.  This does not mean that we become a monotaneous
unthinking society, but that we put the Love of God as our primary goal and
react to people with that Love.

Kiki