I did an episode on abortion - it was an introduction of my story, as well as, some Bible verses. It certainly wasn't all the Bible verses – I just touched on what verses were out there that dealt with killing babies and killing pregnant women. In addition to that, there's so many other stories of killings in the Bible.

I ended the last episode saying, “If God really opposes abortion, why didn't God say so?” What's interesting is if you go through the Bible, you'll see that the death penalty has been handed down for all these different missteps and awful crimes, but there's a death penalty for little “wrongs”.

So…working on the Sabbath day - death penalty.

Collecting sticks on the Sabbath day - death penalty.

People who act as mediums or consult spirits - death penalty.

Rebellious children - death penalty.

Homosexuality (let's not forget how much God hates the gays) - death penalty.

Blaspheme the name of the Lord. I don't think I even know what that means. I had to look it up and it said the act or offense of speaking sacrilegiously about God or sacred things; profane talk. Um, I'm confident that I have engaged in profane talk and anybody who knows me and listens to this podcast - if they really know me, they know I am capable of profane talk.

The thing is, if there is a God, I think the only proof of a God is that I am not swearing like there's no-tomorrow. So, maybe there is a God. "Maybe there is a God. Gaia isn't swearing like a lunatic."

Speaking sacrilegiously about God… I just don't even know what that means. I think that the goalpost moves a great deal depending on who you're talking to. I'm not sure that it's ever understood what blaspheming the Lord would mean or blaspheming the name of the Lord means. I don't even know.

It goes on to list some other misdeeds, which is idolatry. At first I thought idolatry was like worshiping the golden calf, right? In Moses when… Mel Brooks did a really funny movie on Moses. Moses comes down from the mountain and he's carrying three tablets and he says, I have 15 commandments and “doosh”, one of the tablets falls and he says 10 commandments.

When that movie from Mel Brooks and then a number of other movies with Charlton Heston and a few others, when they do this whole thing in the desert, they're worshiping a golden calf. So, I always thought idolatry meant worshiping a golden calf or worshiping really anything else, like money and this and that and the other. But I guess in the Bible, it specifically was talking about sacrificing your children to a God.

There's also the list of other sins or wrongdoings to get put to death. Adultery is on that list. Murder is on the list as well. You know what’s not on the list? Abortion. So, killing your rebellious child and picking up sticks on the Sabbath and being gay – those things… you're gone. “We’re just going to have to kill you. We're just going to start hurling rocks.” If you sleep with someone who's married, “I'm sorry. We’re going to have to end you right here and now.”                  

None of the reasons to put someone to death are for abortion.  Out of all the criminal offenses and out of all the criminal violations and the supposedly criminal violations, abortion is not one of them, not one in the entire Bible. And that's not because there's no such thing as abortion. The Bible talks about forcing the death of a fetus and there's no condemnation.

Anti-abortion individuals will assert that human life begins at conception and therefore the fertilized egg possesses all the constitutional rights of a living person. It would follow that the destruction of a conceived embryo is murder and, this is the basis for the personhood argument.

If the fertilized egg is a person as pro-abortion extremists would claim then God is the greatest murderer of unborn children, because most fertilized eggs either failed to implant in the uterine wall and pass out of the body, or they implant and begin to develop and they're spontaneously abor