Dear Reza,
I don’t know if I would be considered “by most” to be “christian” or not. And to me it doesn’t matter.
But anyway, in a quasi-answer to your question about the Beto-Abbott race today at the Court Street Coffee Shop (in Seguin) …
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I do believe Jesus of Nazareth, or the “personificated” focus of the myth of Jesus of Nazareth, … was a great humanitarian in a very profound and holistic sense. Therefore I believe true “christians”* support the values “attempted to be exemplified” by democratic eco-socialism, the Green Party, … and … less so, the Democratic Party.
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(*versus the bunch of Christians we have in this world who do not de facto believe in socio-ecological justice and humaneness, or real efforts toward quality life for all including other species, for as long as possible)
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Now … sanctity of life, or sanctity of various life systems including–life stages immediately after conception, life forms of other species, and dynamic homeostatic symbioses–is of the utmost importance, and should be thus in the minds of every human! Nevertheless, in concerns with the life form in a human mother’s womb, decisions dealing with that life, the mother, and associated living systems … should be left up to the “informed, and morally- and ecologically-educated” mother.
(I tried to deal with this a bit in: http://www.paulpeaceparables.com/2018/10/17/to-kill-or-not-to-kill-by-paul-b-martin/ and in a slightly better-developed piece in our book on applied ecology, https://www.kite.pub/sustainability/games-we-play/ .)
Connected with this business of “sanctity of life,” I would hope that we immediately work much harder and smarter to get rid of (energetically-expensive & wasteful and socio-ecologically destructive) guns, arms, armaments, military, and War. AND BETO IS MUCH CLOSER TO THIS (christian) MINDSET THAN ABBOTT.
Moreover, even though the critical thinking, decision-making, and necessary policy-development & actions ain’t easy, making the needed decisions concerning the banning of guns, including AR-15s, is much easier than those dealing with aborting or not aborting.
THEREFORE, I’LL VOTE FOR BETO (AND MOSTLY OTHER DEMOCRATS) ON NOVEMBER 8, 2022. And I absolutely do not understand why all other Texans would not do the same!
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Related newspaper article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/19/us/beto-orourke-texas-governor.html
Thanks,
paul
pbm
7 S’s / VV->^^
