Replacing the Cross With A Compassionate God

AND SO IT CAME TO PASS that Ireland dragged itself, kicking and screaming, into the twenty first century, legalizing abortion by a huge margin in a national plebiscite. Secular civic society supplants superstitious obsession with sin. Women are being liberated from the tyranny of religious dogma to pursue their own relationship with their own God in their own way, casting off the shackles of outdated dogma. Abortion is the murder of an unborn child. Either God approves of murder, is powerless to prevent it, or simply chooses not to. He most certainly does not give humankind "free will; he, or she or it intervenes directly in human affairs early and often, according, at least, to the Christian and Hebrew bible. Free will, with limits and qualifications and boundaries, if you will. The biblical God intervenes directly in human affairs throughout the old and the new testament, not to prevent human slaughter, but to engage in it. The god who gave people free will does not hesitate to override free will. God never intervenes to prevent our modern wars of wholesale slaughter, and he often seems to prefer that women murder their unborn children, by refraining from causing them not to, as He/she/it is presumably capable. A well known insurance company, Blue cross blue Shield, uses as its slogan "the compassion of the cross, the protection of the shield." A perfect metaphor for a religion based upon torture, pain, a fear. Compassionate cross? Before Christ was crucified, thousands of people were put to death on crosses by the ancient Romans, who borrowed to technique from their vanquished enemy, Carthage, who themselves learned it from some dark, unknown place, possibly within themselves. If the cross is compassionate, so are torture and slow death, which are all that it ever provided. And so is abortion therefore compassionate, the murder of the unborn, a choice between a pregnant woman and her God, not somebody else's dogmatic God of an anachronistic, primitive religion. The unborn dead will never suffer from the insanity and viciousness of the post natal world of our creation, and of God's creation, and for that, they should perhaps be grateful.