Conversation in God’s Waiting Room

28Sep/094

Conversation in God’s Waiting Room

Geriatric Jewish Woman with Bone Cancer: I always wondered if one of the souls murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust might've gone on to find a cure for Cancer.

Geriatric Catholic Man with Macular Degeneration: I wonder the same thing when it comes to all of the aborted babies. Maybe a cure for MD.

UNCOMFORTABLE SILENCE

Geriatric Jewish Woman with Bone Cancer: Well, a woman has a right to do what she will with her own body.

UNCOMFORTABLE SILENCE

Geriatric Catholic Man with Macular Degeneration: Usually, one can only own something they've bought or created. Do you own anything you haven't bought or created?

Geriatric Jewish Woman with Bone Cancer: I don't follow, doctor.

Geriatric Catholic Man with Macular Degeneration: We are tenants. I neither bought nor created my body. Can it be said that I own it?

Geriatric Jewish Woman with Bone Cancer: We'll have to agree to disagree.

Geriatric Catholic Man with Macular Degeneration: We'll find out the right of it soon enough, I am afraid.

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RC
September 28th, 2009 - 06:46

Poor argument, you can also own things that have been gifted to you. Surely your parents, especially your mother gifted you with being. Perhaps a supreme being was also involved but is not necessary within the bounds of the conversation of whether you own your own body. That, of course, does not argue that it is right for a woman to kill the unborn child quickening within her it’s just not the correct argument. The correct argument is not at all ownership of the woman’s body, rather the rightness of killing a child that has been conceived.

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Enoch_Root
September 28th, 2009 - 07:21

I thought about that too. Meaning the “gifted” aspect. But, it does not follow that life is gifted to you. It is rather on loan to you, me thinks. But point taken.

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Bob Reed
September 28th, 2009 - 08:17

I agree with you Enoch, that our while our souls are gifts created by the Almighty, certainly the element of our existence that is represented by our life on this earth is time loaned to us; just as is everything on this earth. It all belongs to God ultimately, and we are simply stewards of it…

But, I think that Orthodox Jews are also against abortion; as with Christians, it’s only the “cafeteria” type of believers that are willing to submit to the moral compromise.

Still, it’s an interesting dialogue. And the truth is, one day many of the mysteries that baffle us here on earth, will be revealed in their entirety.

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meep
September 29th, 2009 - 03:48

Seems there’s another body involved in an abortion.

Doesn’t matter if I “own” my own body or not.

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