Thursday, January 29, 2009

Is God Pro-Choice?

He will love and bless and multiply you; he will bless the fruit of your womb and the produce of your soil ...
no man or woman among you shall be childless nor shall your livestock be barren.
-- Deuteronomy 7:13-14

I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Choose life, then, that you and your descendants may live ... What I am commanding you is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach ... it is already in your mouths and in your hearts; you have only to carry it out.
-- Deuteronomy 30:11-15

From the Office of Readings for Thursday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time

So, if by "God Is Pro-Choice" you mean, He allows us to choose death, then I agree with you. If you mean, He thinks death is a good choice, then . . . perhaps you're reading from a very different translation from all the ones I've seen. "Choose life" seems pretty clear to me.

Please pray for Barack Obama, and all the confused Christians who give him advice.

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