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few of you understand the motivations that drive those sorts of billboards.
the (in all likelihood) christian group that put up that billboard would stare at you blankly if you accused them of co-opting God's name for their own cause. they don't think of the cause as their own... but a fundamental mandate FROM God, not a personal observation ABOUT God.
to Christian's (like myself) the issue of abortion clearly violates principles that are directly derived from the Bible... a document that we believe to be God's testament of himself to man. so, it's useless and besides the point to whine about Christian's using God's name for their own benefit in this issue (i would agree with similar criticism in others) because the issue does not belong to them.
this is something that is misunderstood across a broad range of Christian/secular encounters. Christians are accused of enforcing their personal mandates on others... as if the Christian held that such values are their own to define. no. the Christian makes (hopefully) few value judgements based on their own preferences and instead holds that sacred scripture is the final authority of man, with God as its sovereign arbiter. there are times when i think organizations that put themselves under the Christian label extend the spiritual mandate to include their own dogmas, but i do not think abortion is one of them.
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