Today's anti-abortion movement is the spiritual descendant of the victors in the ecclesiastical debate regarding wealth of the (Christian) church. This is evidenced by the stunning hypocrisy of the anti-abortion movement. For virtually all self-avowed members of the movement are actually very much "pro-choice". Do they not preach that abortion is a crime? Do they not preach that abortion is murder? Do they not prattle on that being pro-choice is being pro-death of innocent babies? Blah, blah, blah. These are the same people who choose to buy ice cream instead of saving a child from an agonizing death from starvation, or from an easily treatable disease. Make no mistake, it is a CHOICE to expend resources on luxuries rather than save children from suffering and death. Their defense is that while, "choosing to have an abortion is murder," choosing to let a child die of starvation is (somehow) completely different. And they are good with their choices and appear pathologically incapable of seeing any hypocrisy. Therefore, undoubtedly, they are the spiritual descendants of the winners in the wealth debate.
'It is easier for a rope to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God.'1
1] Considering that Jesus was largely speaking to a bunch of fishermen, I've always felt more comfortable with this translation from the Aramaic bible, rather than the vastly more ubiquitous translations from the Greek. It is virtually impossible to know what may have been the vernacular of the day and all arguments about this are arguments about vernacular. Therefore, I go with what seems timelessly logical.
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