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To: Rarebird who wrote (1497971)	11/2/2024 10:53:41 PM
From: Heywood40	2 Recommendations Recommended By pocotrader Waitress Respond to of 1571885

I had a good friend who was a Dead Sea Scrolls scholar. He had a double Doctorate in Ancient Hebrew and was fluent in ancient Greek. He was one of a handful of people who had hands-on experience with the Scrolls. It was fascinating to discuss scriptures with someone who had read the Scrolls in the languages they were written. I once asked him what he believed about abortion, based on his studies of the original writings of the scriptures. He began by stating it was important to understand that then, as now, religion has always been shaped by, and contextual with its contemporary society and sociology, and that as a result, it has continuously evolved and adapted. What he had observed was that as time passes, beliefs and interpretations change, along with society. Someone here recently wondered if all the Catholics who went to hell for eating meat on a Friday had been sent to heaven after the Catholic church relaxed its position on that particular sin. That's a good example of religion evolving with society. It's interesting that your religion incorporates (for the most part) the christian Old Testament, but not the New Testament. But Judaism has evolved since the time of Christ, too, even without the New Testament, as witnessed by the different levels of adherence to the old beliefs. You probably know more about this than I do, but I'm aware of Jewish friends who consider themselves Hasidic, Kosher, Observant or non-observant. I know people who live in neighborhoods where there is a wire strung in the streets that somehow makes it OK to do things that would violate the Sabbath if that wire wasn't in place. That seems pretty bizarre to me, as a non-believer, but, hey, it's not my religion, you can run it however you like. Unless it infringes on my rights. In a society where children are allowed to go hungry in ever greater numbers, and where unwanted children are abandoned, neglected and abused, abortion takes on a different light. If none of our children were being starved, abandoned, neglected and abused, perhaps I'd see abortion in a different light, but as that's not the case, in my belief system, any unwanted birth we can avoid is to our benefit and credit as a society that continues to evolve, along with its religious beliefs.