Originally posted by Tassman
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Considering Evangelicalism has only been around since the 1800s, your claim is laughable.
Previously the issue was open to rational discussion and numerous Evangelicals were pro-choice as evidenced by the quote from Baptist minister W.A. Criswell, pastor of First Baptist in Dallas, TX.
As I have said before... so what? He was wrong, and admitted that he was wrong later in life. Criswell also vehemently held to a young earth. You want to use the same standard for discussions on age of the earth? Where is the "rational discussion" on THAT Criswell belief? Fact is, like the age of the earth, we know much more now about human embryology than we did in 1973.
These are very sensible sentiments in my view and in keeping with the traditional Jewish attitude to which Jesus himself probably adhered.
It was not until the late 1970's that abortion was turned into the highly charged emotional political issue we see today, thanks to the likes of you.
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