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What is the forgiveness here in the case of abortion? Specifically an elective abortion to kill a child whom is viable and poses no risk to the mother? What is the theological liberal forgiving in that case? Is the abortion itself somehow a redemptive purging of the consequences of the sex this woman had? Or is the theological liberal forgiving the abortion itself?
Conservatives are not opposed to forgiving others. What we would insist on is some sort of genuine repentance and need to change one's life.
Liberals do not include the demand (to genuinely repent and change ones life to meet somebody's standard) as part of the requirements of forgiveness.
For liberal the threshold of "poses no risk to the mother" is the decision of the mother and not the decision of the public.
For example, if a man threatens to kill his child after it is born. Sure, this never ever happens in a million years, but "For example" this would not meet your requirements so the female who would not want the fathers DNA to exist anymore, would have to endure the pregnancy as well as her mental state after bearing the child for the rest of her life.
Yes, her mental state is her own problem and not the child's. But a liberal would have compassion on such a woman and "forgiver her" to make her own decisions.
For example, when Jesus said to the woman "Go and sin no more" he didn't ask her to repent frst and didn't spell out any further demands on her like a good conservative would.
A good conservative Jesus would have asked if she regretted her sins, asked if she will change her ways, waited until she repented, then forgiven her and reminded her that her forgiveness requires that she live up to community standards from then on. Or else she faces further punishments.
That's why I no longer believe that Jesus was conservative. Because he didn't act like one.
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