Bob Blaylock
Diamond Member
- Banned
- #21
When you don’t believe in the God of Jacob and have a world view this is what happens.
It's also an example of man doing what the devil offered—to be your own god (Gen 3:5) and thus determine what's "right" or "wrong" for yourself.
Coming to America soon.
Indian court orders abortion on teen girl: 'The fetus wouldn't wish to be born'
An Indian judge said a 15-yo's baby wouldn't want to be born, saying the greatest desire is "liberation from the cycle of births and deaths."www.liveaction.org
As messed up as this is from a Western perspective, it seems to me that it is based on a seriously-defective interpretation of Hinduism, which is the dominant religion in India. From the article:
“While we do celebrate life, the foremost spiritual prayer is that there should be liberation from the cycle of births and deaths,” he said, before quoting a verse from the Thirukkural (a book of poets’ ideas) which means: “If anything is to be desired, it should be freedom from birth.” In India, 79% of the population is Hindu, in which the belief in reincarnation — with the goal of escaping the cycle of birth and death — is central.
Now, I'm not a Hindu, and my understanding of Hinduism is elementary, but it seems that this judge thinks that killing this unborn child will help it toward the goal of “escaping the cycle of birth and death”; but that does not reconcile at all with my understanding of how Hindus think this works.
My understanding is that how well one lives whatever life one is given in one cycle, determines what kind of life they will be reincarnated into the next cycle. Do well with your life, and next time, you'll be born into a better life. Do badly, and next time you'll be born into a worse life. Somewhere below the lowest caste of humans, you get born as an animal. Above the highest caste, you don't get reborn at all, and get to move on into whatever the Hindu ideal is of the final afterlife.
Now, here's a child that would be born into a low caste, the child of a poor, unwed mother, and of a lowly criminal for a deadbeat father. By my understanding, killing this child only deprives him of the opportunity to try to do as well as he can with the life he was given, and hope next time around to be born into a better life. By my understanding of Hinduism, all that killing this child will do, now, is condemn him to be born into another bad life, comparable to what the judge purports to be sparing him this time. And of course, by sanctioning the murder of an innocent child, this judge is only bringing bad karma on himself, which, by my understanding of Hinduism, helps to condemn him, in his next reincarnation, to be born into a lower caste than he had this time.