Mental gymnastics...

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Moral truths remain questionable even after thousands of years, be it biblical, Socratic, etc.

I find fault in the image of mental gymnastics due to the assumption that a person must find a complicated answer to justify a simple choice. Today I killed a fly, the morality was irrelevant, I wished it dead. If this is evil, so be it.

I find the biblical argument to be flawed in that the morality people find in the texts are so often cherry picked and selective, else contradictory. Some morality in religious texts are either completely morally corrupt or at least very questionable, and cannot simply be 'put in context of the time' as the texts are applied to modern day problems.

Thou shalt not kill is actually very complicated, which is why in law we have such a depth of definition for the terms of murder, manslaughter, etc. There must also be a line drawn as to when murder, or the taking of a life, can be attributed to that which may not be technically alive. Many will disregard the sperm as being alive and opt for a heartbeat, I might argue that a parasitic worm can have a heartbeat.

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Killing a fly is not the same as killing an unborn child. You are not a fly, but a human. Abortion is killing unborn humans, like you when you were still in your mother's womb. And God made man (not the fly) in his image. God made the child in the womb.

The unborn is like an unopened book that has yet to be read. And abortion is like censorship, destroying the book before the world ever had a chance to read it.

The commandment to not kill does not have to be complicated. Man, who perverts God's word, makes it complicated, because he wants to justify killing when God did not approve.

Here is how to make it simple: keep the Royal Law, which says: Whatever you want men to do to you, you do the same to them.

If you want men to destroy your flesh when society deems you to be a nuisance, like a bothersome fly, then continue to support abortion. If you want to receive mercy, then be merciful.

When Jesus Christ was being arrested by the Jewish officers, one of his disciples drew a sword and cut off the officer's ear. But God did not approve. Jesus healed the man's ear and rebuked his disciple, saying:

Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.

If you approve of men using sharp instruments to cut up an unborn child while it is still in its mother's womb, then you also will die in your sins. It is God's justice. You will get what you also want for others. This is fair.

As for me, I want for you to repent. I also did the same. And I want you to live, to be blessed, and to be happy.