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And does anybody else find comparisions of those controversies and practices to the Holocaust and the controversy over slavery and the Civil Rights Movement respectively to be weak?
I don't pay much attention to the abortion controversy or the controversy over homosexuality. It seems like 50% of what I see at Christian Forums is about those two divisive topics. It seems like 50% of what I see and hear from any source about Christianity is about those two divisive topics. It leaves me
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Of course, the minute that I say that I am going to be accused of complicity to evil. Indeed, people often compare the contemporary practice of abortion to the Holocaust. And people often compare the controversy surrounding abortion to the controversy over the institution of slavery in the first century in the U.S. Meanwhile, one can't read or hear about homosexuals without seeing and hearing comparisons to African-Americans' struggle to have their Constitutional and human rights upheld.
But those comparisons are weak, if not completely erroneous and/or dishonest. The Holocaust was about ethnic cleansing, was it not? The contemporary practice of abortion that has been so divisive has little if anything to do with ethnic cleansing. Slavery? I am not a History PhD, but I think that it is safe to say that slavery was an economic institution that a region of the United States depended on. I think that it is safe to say that it was people's livelihood that was ultimately at stake. I could be wrong, of course. But based on that understanding of the controversy over slavery I must say that the abortion controversy does not compare. And the comparisons between the Civil Rights Movement and today's movement for homosexuals' rights are extremely weak, in my humble opinion. Homosexuals are not--and as far as I know never have been--segregated like African-Americans were and to some extent still are. And African-Americans had no choice. It is no so clear with homosexuals. It is not clear if homosexuality is or is not a choice. And even if homosexuality is not a choice, a strong case can be made that homosexual behavior is a choice. I could probably write several paragraphs contrasting the two groups.
I am not saying that abortion and the mistreatment of homosexuals are trivial. I do think about those issues. But I think that an extremely disproportionate amount of resources are spent on the two issues at the expense of many other things that need our attention. And if we did not neglect other problems so much then the abortion and homosexuality controversies would likely be a lot more easy to resolve. Does anybody else feel this way?
I don't pay much attention to the abortion controversy or the controversy over homosexuality. It seems like 50% of what I see at Christian Forums is about those two divisive topics. It seems like 50% of what I see and hear from any source about Christianity is about those two divisive topics. It leaves me
.Of course, the minute that I say that I am going to be accused of complicity to evil. Indeed, people often compare the contemporary practice of abortion to the Holocaust. And people often compare the controversy surrounding abortion to the controversy over the institution of slavery in the first century in the U.S. Meanwhile, one can't read or hear about homosexuals without seeing and hearing comparisons to African-Americans' struggle to have their Constitutional and human rights upheld.
But those comparisons are weak, if not completely erroneous and/or dishonest. The Holocaust was about ethnic cleansing, was it not? The contemporary practice of abortion that has been so divisive has little if anything to do with ethnic cleansing. Slavery? I am not a History PhD, but I think that it is safe to say that slavery was an economic institution that a region of the United States depended on. I think that it is safe to say that it was people's livelihood that was ultimately at stake. I could be wrong, of course. But based on that understanding of the controversy over slavery I must say that the abortion controversy does not compare. And the comparisons between the Civil Rights Movement and today's movement for homosexuals' rights are extremely weak, in my humble opinion. Homosexuals are not--and as far as I know never have been--segregated like African-Americans were and to some extent still are. And African-Americans had no choice. It is no so clear with homosexuals. It is not clear if homosexuality is or is not a choice. And even if homosexuality is not a choice, a strong case can be made that homosexual behavior is a choice. I could probably write several paragraphs contrasting the two groups.
I am not saying that abortion and the mistreatment of homosexuals are trivial. I do think about those issues. But I think that an extremely disproportionate amount of resources are spent on the two issues at the expense of many other things that need our attention. And if we did not neglect other problems so much then the abortion and homosexuality controversies would likely be a lot more easy to resolve. Does anybody else feel this way?
I just get upset when I see so much bitterness and anger being expressed by both sides of the debate. I'd rather be discussing philosophical methods of hermeneutics or some such thing.
