Religion tends to divorce morality from the reality of suffering. Religion allows people to imagine that their concerns are moral when those concerns inflict unnecessary suffering on innocent human beings. Christians expend more “moral” energy opposing abortion than fighting genocide. It explains why Christians are more concerned about human embryos that about the lifesaving promise of stem-cell research. And it explains why Christians preach against condom use while millions die from AIDs each year.
Christians believe their concerns about sex have something to do with morality. Their efforts to constrain the sexual behavior of consenting adults and even discourage their sons and daughters from having premarital sex are almost never geared toward the relief of human suffering. Relieving human suffering seems to rank on their list of priorities.
If abortion is wrong does it matter how the fetus was conceived? Is the fetus any less human if it was conceived as a result of incest or rape, forcible or not? Do you think Christians know why they are against abortion? It appears Christians do not want abortions to be done unless they deem it necessary.
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