an actual blaspheme
I suddenly had the great idea to try to produce a biblically grounded argument demonstrating that abortion was demanded of the faithful. My thought was that I could find a suitable passage concerning the "original sin" and then link it with some passage somewhere about the necessity of casting out evil from within. I got about as far as determining (from a google search) that the doctrine of original sin comes mostly from Paul's letters in the New Testament. I started perusing the relevant chapters - actually just one of them, Corinthians - and I was quickly distracted by this kick ass passage:
"Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not G_d made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since, in the wisdom of G_d, the world did not know G_d through wisdom, G_d decided, through the foolishness of our proclamation, to save those who believe. For Jews demand signs and Greeks desire wisdom, but we proclaim Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of G_d and the wisdom of G_d. For G_d's foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and G_d's weakness is stronger than human strength"
and further ...
"Consider your own call, brothers and sisters: not many of you were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But G_d chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; G_d chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; G_d chose what is low and despised in the world, things that are not, to reduce to nothing things that are, so that no one might boast in the presence of G_d. "
Numinous.
Of course, directly after this Paul starts blathering about the "spiritual" and the "unspiritual" (also translated, according to my Revised Standard Version, as "the natural") before degenerating completely into a discussion of sexual morality, thereby reminding us that he is, after all, just a confused Pharisee.
"Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not G_d made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since, in the wisdom of G_d, the world did not know G_d through wisdom, G_d decided, through the foolishness of our proclamation, to save those who believe. For Jews demand signs and Greeks desire wisdom, but we proclaim Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of G_d and the wisdom of G_d. For G_d's foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and G_d's weakness is stronger than human strength"
and further ...
"Consider your own call, brothers and sisters: not many of you were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But G_d chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; G_d chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; G_d chose what is low and despised in the world, things that are not, to reduce to nothing things that are, so that no one might boast in the presence of G_d. "
Numinous.
Of course, directly after this Paul starts blathering about the "spiritual" and the "unspiritual" (also translated, according to my Revised Standard Version, as "the natural") before degenerating completely into a discussion of sexual morality, thereby reminding us that he is, after all, just a confused Pharisee.