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Originally Posted by jfrog
I think you and Titus2woman ignored the main point. The point was that Christians have traditionally not treated unborns/stillborns as people in the few ways they can treat them as people. They don't name them and they don't bury them. Sure that's starting to change but it isn't there yet.
I can only think that if Christians had done their part and acted like unborns were people for the last 2000 years then abortion wouldn't even be a debate right now. So what I'm saying is stop pointing the finger at those who have abortions and saying "murderer" when you and your religion have not acted like unborns deserve the same ceremonies as born people. You're religion has kept and maintained that divide between born and unborn people and so it's no surprise when the world follows your example and principle. If you treat unborns differently than those that are born then don't condemn others for doing the same thing!
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I can't speak beyond my own 39 years of living, and the little corner of the world I've lived in. But growing up in the mountains, every still born we have ever known of, or unborn (assuming you mean miscarriages, or where the baby inside died because mom died or was killed), have always been named and been either a part of mom's funeral, or had one of their own. I can take you to countless cemetaries in the mountains of East TN where there are tons of graves where families we know have buried a still born baby, with names on them.... And can take you to quite a few for miscarried fetus'. So, no, I can't speak to 2000 years, but I can say that the broad brush your using doesn't paint over everyone.
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