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Mosby

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37. It's a small point, but it bugs a lot of Jews.

Sat Feb 6, 2021, 01:56 PM

Feb 2021

Jews do call the torah the bible though, I generally say Christian scriptures and Jewish scriptures in mixed groups.

This is how it's referenced at usa today:

It’s common in this debate to hear the Christian perspective. But what’s often left out of the conversation is how Jews, who read the Hebrew Bible – referred to in Christian circles as the Old Testament – argue that their tradition condones abortion. Sometimes, if the mother's life is at stake, it even insists on it.

“This is a big deal for us,” Ruttenberg says. “We’re very clear about a woman’s right to choose. And we’re very clear about the separation between church and state.”

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/07/24/abortion-laws-jewish-faith-teaches-life-does-not-start-conception/1808776001/

It is odd how Christians follow parts of the Torah but not others. I don't understand how that works.

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Here it is ... abortion sanctioned in the Bible ... [View all] Miigwech Feb 2021 OP

I never knew that! Ha! lindysalsagal Feb 2021 #1

K & R & Bookmarked! SunSeeker Feb 2021 #2

Bookmarked also. Man, the title, God promotes abortions. Lol. Right now I put up a mansplaining LizBeth Feb 2021 #14

Interesting. What happens to the unfaithful husband? yonder Feb 2021 #3

"Verily, I say unto you, boys will be boys." MineralMan Feb 2021 #9

LMAO. That's about the truth in the all male version of the Bible. Hoyt Feb 2021 #11

What he said...☝️ Heartstrings Feb 2021 #12

+1 LizBeth Feb 2021 #15

Wink, wink, nudge, nudge nilram Feb 2021 #27

WOw, more pure evil from the 'Good Book' consider_this Feb 2021 #4

Oh dear, all this time I thought God was a loving God, now we find out 42bambi Feb 2021 #5

Aha! You're a thorough reader of the Bible. MineralMan Feb 2021 #6

... Ferrets are Cool Feb 2021 #20

***ALSO*** Exodus explains what happens when a person causes a woman to have a miscarriage (link) uponit7771 Feb 2021 #7

This, to me, is the more compelling Biblical verse intrepidity Feb 2021 #25

Yep, watch a anti choice head explode as they try to twist this to mean something else uponit7771 Feb 2021 #33

Very interesting, I never realized that was what they meant in the book of Numbers. FM123 Feb 2021 #8

Yeah, using an abortion forced by the authorities isn't a great argument imo. WhiskeyGrinder Feb 2021 #10

ah yes... handmade34 Feb 2021 #13

We only wish! BComplex Feb 2021 #19

A trial by ordeal, with the ordeal being forced to drink an abortifacient. Mariana Feb 2021 #16

It reads differently in hebrew. Mosby Feb 2021 #17

What? They even had Fox news back then, LOL Miigwech Feb 2021 #22

Looks like "bitter water" is dirty water and it's a gamble on how dirty the floor is. Hermit-The-Prog Feb 2021 #18

Sounds to me like Satanic Rituals msfiddlestix Feb 2021 #21

Look at it this way: religionists claim that god designed the human body. stopbush Feb 2021 #23

There's a tons of bonkers shit in the Bahbull. lagomorph777 Feb 2021 #24

no one else going to point out stopdiggin Feb 2021 #26

Yup, written numerous times Politicalgolfer Feb 2021 #28

Yeesh mindfulNJ Feb 2021 #29

3.5 liters of ground barley PurgedVoter Feb 2021 #30

Numbers is in the Old Testament - Ms. Toad Feb 2021 #31

For Christians, which is why you and others call it the "old" testament. Mosby Feb 2021 #32

And which religious group is it that believes abortion is a sin? Ms. Toad Feb 2021 #34

It's a small point, but it bugs a lot of Jews. Mosby Feb 2021 #37

There are also more verses that also don't forbid abortion DLCWIdem Feb 2021 #35

And next we had witchcraft BSdetect Feb 2021 #36