Some of us can’t do both. I can pray for both, but give my money and or time to only one. Am I bad for picking one over the other. And does my choice have to agree with yours? Aren’t we each given different gifts and therefore different jobs? Don’t all things work to His good?
Speaking as a Canadian who was homeless once, I whittled away to 135 pounds while being six feet tall. It’s entirely possible for North Americans to become malnourished through lack of food.
Wow, you’re really reaching. I hate to break this to you, but a lot of kids starve here in the USA. Ever seen a malnourished, bony kid whose parents were drug addicts? I have. My wife and I were foster parents to a child who’d gone through this.
You really don’t see that a defenseless 1 year old kid starving to death anywhere in the world is just as evil as aborting that child? You really don’t see that a defenseless 1 year old child being blown to bits is just as evil as aborting that child? I certainly do.
They aren’t equally bad. To murder unborn persons is worse than unintentionally neglecting to feed people who are hungry.
Give to and serve the poor all you want, Sally. If that is where God calls you then who am I to say otherwise? The point is that in terms of gravity, abortion is clearly a graver evil than poverty or hunger.
Yes, it’s just as evil. Who is disputing that if it is killing the child and there are Christian Charities that feed the needy. I don’t see where this conversation is leading.
Of course not. They are both truly evil, but equating them is moral folly.
Of course it is different and both are morally wrong. I think that is the point. To make one evil the worse evil at least tends toward the political.
Uniintentionally?
Yes, that’s the point I’m making.
Really? It wasn’t a trick question. Intentionally killing an innocent person is equivalent to letting a child starve? First, the first is an act that kills. The latter is a failure to act that may let someone die. There is a huge gap. I seriously doubt Papa Francis would equate these morally.
Indeed. No disagreement here. But a morally sane person would recognize the two are not equivalent and one deserves priority.
And a morally sane person also knows that a kid being blown to bits in a war is just as evil as abortion is.
Amen!
I couldn’t have said it better myself.
Who murders a starving kid? Is it legal to do so?
Name a pro-life person that advocates for blowing up children. I can name several pro-“choice” advocates for the intentional killing of innocent unborn children.