It isn't though, especially if you follow the teachings of Jesus.
Most self proclaimed Christians just use it as an excuse to justify their hate and don't actually know what's in the Bible. Imo Episcopalians get it the most right.
For instance, the Bible says in like 3 different places that life begins at the first breath. It also literally has abortion ritual instructions.
Being Christian has little to do with following Jesus. There's a whole death of that religion that is very against his teachings.
In fact, if people really followed Jesus, you wouldn't even know they were Christians. They'd just be good people.
If most people of a specific religion are incompatible with modern society, then the religion is incompatible with modern society.
If I was in a gang where most of the gang were murderers, it would be safe to say that is a murderous gang even if I myself have never murdered anyone.
There's a famous saint, Brigid of Kildare, who was an "abortionist." She was an Irish abbess who performed miracles. One of her nuns got pregnant (legend is spotty about how, if it was rape, consensual, or if the man was a priest or a layman) and Brigid stopped the gestation just by touching the nun's abdomen. Conservative people will argue and say "no, it wasn't an abortion, it was a time warp back so the fetus had never been conceived" or something... But... It seemed to be an abortion to me. Of course there's no record of Brigid's own memoirs or diaries, just those of her followers and some of the nuns who reported to her, so her life is somewhat mysterious. There's other saints out there with similar stories about aiding in reproductive choices, but Brigid is the first to come to mind. And as far as the prophets go about the welfare of babies, Solomon encouraged two mothers to split a baby in half. He was somewhat joking as a test to see who was the true mother of the baby, but still, it's kind of a sick joke and he's supposed to be one of the good guys. (Also, the false mother is the one who is content about cutting the baby and that makes no sense to me. Even though the King determined the baby wasn't hers, why does she have no humanity or knowledge of what happens when humans are split apart? Being horrified by his joke isn't really a requisite to being a real parent).
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Christianism is fundamentally incompatible with modern society.
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