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My bumper sticker would say "God is love"

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Megan Stewart, Loveland

Published September 30, 2008 at 6 p.m.

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I saw a bumper sticker stating “God is Pro-life.”

Still, I hate to consider the burden on Colorado law enforcement agencies of defining personhood as beginning at conception.

My sister is a criminal prosecutor in Denver. She has her hands full with rapists, murderers, drug dealers, even one 9/11 terrorism suspect. Imagine her case load if miscarriages became involuntary manslaughter, frozen embryos demanded due process and prenatal ultrasounds became child pornography.

About that bumper sticker. Are we talking about the same God, the one who so loved the world he sent his only begotten son to die? Is this really the pro-life God?

My bumper sticker would say, "God is Love." If I wanted a pro-life god, I’d choose a fertility god like Baal. Baal worship taught that the mother-goddess Asherah gave birth to a daughter named Ashtoroth. The Holman Bible Dictionary says Ashtoroth became the Hebrew word for "womb" or "fruit of the womb" an ancient term for fetus.

By every definition, Baal was pro-life. Yet he caused all kinds of grief for Old Testament prophets like Elijah. This isn’t a problem in America. Not because we have no fertility gods, but because we have no prophets.

Comments

  • September 30, 2008

    9:54 p.m.

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    LetsThink writes:

    Megan
    You need to read the Bible.

    God talks about His wrath throughout the Bible against those who do evil.

    Let's not give people a false hope, and cause them to spend eternity separated from God.

    Please.

  • October 1, 2008

    12:04 a.m.

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    becca00 writes:

    My bumper sticker says: "Your God is a false God. Yes, YOUR God."

  • October 1, 2008

    6:11 a.m.

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    leftside writes:

    Megan, The conservative version of God has nothing to do with love. He is a God to be feared. A God that punishes. They live their lives under that fear and teach others to fear God.

    What it truly is is propaganda and as Americans we have to be able to see through that propaganda of fear to really understand the teachings in the Bible or any other book of faith.

    It's not God who threatens or creates fear it's human who seek to control others. Once human beings understand that then their relation with God improves drastically and becomes greater than love.

    Fight these people who preach fear and try to control your life with propaganda. Their the sinners and false prophets God warns about in the Bible.

  • October 1, 2008

    7:52 a.m.

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    SheikYurBooty writes:

    LT: "God talks about His wrath throughout the Bible against those who do evil."

    Since all people do evil (except the Virgin Mary maybe) your God has wrath against all people? Have you suggested some anger management classes for the old guy???

  • October 1, 2008

    8:01 a.m.

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    SheikYurBooty writes:

    BTW - my bumper sticker would read: "My god(s) and/or goddess(es) can beat up your god(s) and/or goddess(es). And yes, that includes Jesus Christ and Allah."

  • October 1, 2008

    9:10 a.m.

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    IronmanCarmichael writes:

    Yeah, read the Bible and learn all about God. The Bible depicts God as: possessive, jealous, vindictive, capricious, petty, selfish, defensive, cruel, egocentric, childish, vain, stubborn, and not very mentally or emotionally balanced.

    Maybe infinite power is too great a burden for any one being, no matter how supreme. The gods and goddesses of Greek and other ancient mythologies may have had their issues, but none so neurotic as the biblical God.

  • October 1, 2008

    11:12 a.m.

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    grandpaw writes:

    Another piece of interesting, and relevant, information from Malachi. While I don't think she is at all qualified to be vice-president, it's nice to see that she doesn't think that people who disagree with her abortion stance should be in jail and that it is a moral rather than a criminal issue. I expect that the "PALIN IS PRO MURDER" signs will come up at her next public appearance. Or will they?

  • October 1, 2008

    11:53 a.m.

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    me2 writes:

    We live in a physical, amoral Universe where everything must die so others will have food to live. Those facts are hard for many to except, so they invented a God, then a loving God, and Satan and Mother Nature to explain all those bad things they don't like. If the animals in the forest, especially those on the bottom of the food chain could talk, do you think they would call God "Love?"

    Can you just picture a bunny wearing a "God is Love" tail sign while running from a wolf? Are we to believe that wolves eat bunnies because of someone named "Eve"?

    Now picture a human with a "God is Love" tattoo running from a hungry tiger, or cancer. Now think!

  • October 1, 2008

    12:07 p.m.

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    ScienceGuy writes:

    The monkeys want to be something else, but they're not.

    Dance monkeys dance!

    http://iacs5.ucsd.edu/~pbang/dance_mo...

  • October 1, 2008

    4:31 p.m.

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    me2 writes:

    God is pro life and pro death. Can't have life without death. Unless we all are self replicating bacteria.

  • October 1, 2008

    8:07 p.m.

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    LetsThink writes:

    Several of you are mocking God.
    That's not smart.

    In a few years, your decision will determine your eternity.

    We pray that you will think about your decision (before it is too late).