My Western Charm Coming Through

All right, hit pause here.

All right.

Now,

first of all, the idea that the Bible is silent on abortion, really what he...

I don't want to beat up on Protestantism here, and I don't think this is going to be beating up on Protestantism, but he is definitely approaching this from a certain kind of...

Don't

blame this guy on me.

Come on, John.

Okay, all right, all right, all right.

But he's approaching it from...

Honestly, I don't think it's even fair to characterize this as Protestant, but I think there's a certain kind of liberal Protestant that is almost totally relativist...

They wind up actually being relativists about the Bible.

Right.

Basically almost to say that, well, for almost any disputed point, you can marshal your Bible verses, I can marshal my Bible verses, and we might disagree, and that's okay.

It's like, well, no, it's not okay.

Right.

you're legalizing a practice that involves killing a bunch of human beings.

Either it's murder or it's not.

Either it's state-sanctioned murder or it's not.

Like, our biblical textual dispute doesn't change the objective nature of what we're doing here.

And I don't think it's an academic exercise or a...

It's not like there isn't a truth out there that can be discerned from the Bible about whether this is right or wrong.

There is an actual correct answer out there.

And I dislike this tendency to act like, well, you can marshal your verses on your side, and I can marshal my verses on my side, and you know who's to say.

Well, no.

All right, hit pause here.

All right.

Now,

first of all, the idea that the Bible is silent on abortion, really what he...

I don't want to beat up on Protestantism here, and I don't think this is going to be beating up on Protestantism, but he is definitely approaching this from a certain kind of...

Don't

blame this guy on me.

Come on, John.

Okay, all right, all right, all right.

But he's approaching it from...

Honestly, I don't think it's even fair to characterize this as Protestant, but I think there's a certain kind of liberal Protestant that is almost totally relativist...

They wind up actually being relativists about the Bible.

Right.

Basically almost to say that, well, for almost any disputed point, you can marshal your Bible verses, I can marshal my Bible verses, and we might disagree, and that's okay.

It's like, well, no, it's not okay.

Right.

you're legalizing a practice that involves killing a bunch of human beings.

Either it's murder or it's not.

Either it's state-sanctioned murder or it's not.

Like, our biblical textual dispute doesn't change the objective nature of what we're doing here.

And I don't think it's an academic exercise or a...

It's not like there isn't a truth out there that can be discerned from the Bible about whether this is right or wrong.

There is an actual correct answer out there.

And I dislike this tendency to act like, well, you can marshal your verses on your side, and I can marshal my verses on my side, and you know who's to say.

Well, no.