About Christianity

'abortion is wrong, immoral and absolutely forbidden in christianity.'

this is what many of you say. you can quote me a whole list of Bible verses, and come up with all the theories, to prove what you are saying is correct. oh well, this is not the point of today's post. actually, i do not think abortion is forbidden. but that, is also not the point. this is an endless debate. i am not going to change your opinion, and i am not going to tell you why i think abortion is not wrong. everyone is entitled to their own opinion.

at the end of the day, we just have to have an answer to God.

those against abortion will come up with phrases like murder, the fetus is a life...etc. actually, i want to say, for a woman who is pregnant, there is no need for you to tell her all these. i am not pregnant, and so i cannot say exactly what is it like. but i think, all mothers, all pregnant women would know what it means to abort a child.

so, when a woman aborts her baby, there is a reason. standard debate points in favor of abortion would be: rape victims, babies with disabilities, incest victims...etc. the list goes on. again, i am not going to argue whether it is wrong or not to abort a child.

what actually made me so pissed off is, the people whom i see who are strongly against abortion, they had no idea what they are actually saying. or maybe let me rephrase, they give no thought to the people they condemn, or criticize for abortion.

people abort babies for different reasons, and some of them are listed above. as we all know, abortion is a surgical process (i won't describe it here), and after which the body of the woman is damaged, slightly. in fact, it is a painful procedure. no woman would want to abort her baby happily, as far as i know.

'even if the baby is disabled, he is still a life.' 'even if the baby is the result of rape, you have to let her be born, because it would be wrong to abort it.'

for many of the people who say things like this, i always feel they are hypocrites. if you are one of them, i don't really care what you think. you can say your opinion in the comments section, but if you flame me or give non-constructive posts, i will just delete it away. to hell with free speech.

why do i say people like these are hypocrites? unless you experienced the same or similar situations like these people who want to take away their babies, you have no right to say such things. i help took care of my baby sister, and watched her grow up. i know how difficult it is to bring up one healthy baby. what if, the baby is retarded? or an unwanted baby? won't the mother be sad? won't the child suffer?

what do i want to say? people often throw laws at the people, without showing the tiniest bit of compassion and understanding. just because it is law (actually we don't even know if it is forbidden), people have to obey them, regardless of their suffering? if you say a woman have to give birth to a retarded child, would you help take care of the kid? obviously you won't. because you are not a saint. and because you have your own life to lead. so you only talk and say it is wrong, and leave the results of the birth of the baby to the mother, while you happily convinced yourself you did the right thing. is that it?

it is very easy to talk. i can also talk. in fact i can talk as if i am the holiest person on earth. who doesn't know how to talk? but, behind all our talks, where is the love and compassion expected of us christians? because we think it is law, we throw it out at the others, without even bothering to understand their pain? if that is the case, we would all go to hell. because it is law, we would go down to hell for all our sins. there would be no need for Christ to come.

because we were given compassion, that's why we can live on. but for many of us, we don't give others compassion. yes, maybe you can say compassion cannot make the baby healthy. compassion cannot reverse the time of conception. but, compassion can explore new ways to help the people. if at that time, Christ did not have compassion on us, He would not have offered to die for us. He could have just sent us all straight to hell. because of His compassion, a new way which was not available to us was opened. and He acted as a bridge between us and God.

when we throw out the laws at people, are we behaving like christians? 'christians should not abort babies.' we throw out a supposedly still debatable christian law, and talk like a christian. but do we act like one? do we speak as one who condemn, or as one who loves and is compassionate? Christ doesn't just talk about how He loves us. He proved it by His actions. similarly, we can talk all we want. but are we going to prove it?

if one day, you who condemn abortion, is raped or discovered your child is retarded or disabled (which for both cases i sincerely hope you don't meet this kind of situation), what are you going to do? throw yourself this 'chrisitan law'? or if others throw this law at you without showing the tinest bit of compassion, or a ton full of fake love, would you be angry and hurt?

in our attempt to keep all laws, do we forget the most important thing of all? love and compassion. in our bid to follow all these rules and regulations, have we become cold-hearted people who spare no thoughts for others? have we become, a worse hypocrite than what we usually are?

before i forget, like you, i am also one of the hypocrites. an insincere person who only knows how to talk. like what i always do on this blog. so if you are going to say what a hypocrite i am, there will be no need to do so. i understand it perfectly well myself. we are all just wallowing in that puddle of insincerity. the difference between us is, how deep are we sinking?