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Other writers say that early Christians considered abortion a sin even before ensoulment. [31] According to some, the magnitude of the sin was, for the early Christians, on a level with general sexual immorality or other lapses; [4] according to others, they saw it as "an evil no less severe and social than oppression of the poor and needy". [32]
Some scholars have concluded that early Christians took a nuanced stance on what is now called abortion and that at different times, and in separate places, early Christians have taken different stances. [15] [16] [17] Other scholars have concluded that early Christians considered abortion a sin at all stages; although there is disagreement ...
There has always been much debate over the 'Christian views on suicide', with early Christians believing that suicide is sinful and an act of blasphemy. Modern Christians do not consider suicide an unforgivable sin (though still wrong and sinful) or something that prevents a believer who died by suicide from achieving eternal life. [1] [2] [3]
Other writers say that early Christians considered abortion a sin even before ensoulment. [148] According to some, the magnitude of the sin was, for the early Christians, on a level with general sexual immorality or other lapses; [149] according to others, they saw it as "an evil no less severe and social than oppression of the poor and needy ...
In Theravada Buddhism, for a monk to so much as praise death, including dwelling upon life's miseries or extolling stories of possibly blissful rebirth in a higher realm in a way that might condition the hearer to die by suicide or to pine away to death, is explicitly stated as a breach in one of highest vinaya codes, the prohibition against ...
The early Christian work called the Didache (before 100 AD) says: "do not murder a child by abortion or kill a new-born infant." [67] Tertullian, a 2nd- and 3rd-century Christian theologian argued that abortion should be performed only in cases in which abnormal positioning of the fetus in the womb would endanger the life of the pregnant woman.
Abortion is far more complex than the false binary choice between one or the other. To ratify abortion on demand does not exhibit God’s love fully any more than does prohibiting all abortion.
He advocated mandatory exposure (to the elements) of children born with 'deformities,' and deemed abortion advisable when a couple had exceeded a quota of children, or when a couple had conceived passed their optimal childbearing age, [8] [9] as he believed that the eudaimonia of the individual was entwined with the welfare of the state. Plato ...