Not to be cliche, but you don't need to defend abortion as it is extremely unlikely you'll ever need one.
My point is not so much that abortion is or is not justifiable as that it is a medical decision; not a political one. War tends to be a little more random in its target, and I would hope the death penalty is never considered unless it is anticipated leaving the person alive would have a profound impact on the rest of society.
As for defensive war, allowing another person to injure you or others who might rely on you can be just as much a support of violence as the act of aggression itself. It's at least collusion by inaction.
I've never been clear on the wearing of crosses, apart from the fact that the "wheel of the year" cross precedes Christianity and represents something quite different, and the Christian empirical movement adopted and "repurposed" a lot of pagan stuff.
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My point is not so much that abortion is or is not justifiable as that it is a medical decision; not a political one. War tends to be a little more random in its target, and I would hope the death penalty is never considered unless it is anticipated leaving the person alive would have a profound impact on the rest of society.
As for defensive war, allowing another person to injure you or others who might rely on you can be just as much a support of violence as the act of aggression itself. It's at least collusion by inaction.
I've never been clear on the wearing of crosses, apart from the fact that the "wheel of the year" cross precedes Christianity and represents something quite different, and the Christian empirical movement adopted and "repurposed" a lot of pagan stuff.