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You can find puritans jailing abortionists for explicitly religious reasons in the 17th century but you do you https://twitter.com/joshuagrubbsphd/status/1332750574719283201
You can find puritans jailing abortionists for explicitly religious reasons in the 17th century but you do you https://twitter.com/joshuagrubbsphd/status/1332750574719283201
Abortion was not an evangelical talking point until the Antenicene Fathers made it one
Surveys show that when asked to rank issues evangelicals often don’t rank abortion #1, which suggests Mitch McConnell is just a political rookie who has catastrophically misread his base for his entire career.
The reason we’ve seen less change in abortion opinions than any other social issue is because when you get right down to it people really just care about abortion less than other issues
Or something
Or something
What makes many conservatives see progressives as genocidal maniacs bent on exterminating them is that really marginal tax rates are too high; it’s definitely not based on a belief that the genocide has already been ongoing for several decades
You can see these beliefs as crazy of course but it’s just wild to me the effort expended to act like they just don’t exist at all.
Again, this is false. Protestant and Catholic religious leaders were pretty much of one mind on population issues until the 1910s or 1920s until Lambeth in 1930 which yielded an extremely surprising result that shook Protestantism. https://twitter.com/bettspbetts/status/1332763735363100680
Even then Lambeth was intended only to permit birth limitation among married couples and mostly via coitus interruptus. It was never envisioned as having its actual effect: opening a broader Protestant rejection of the historic Christian family model.
The speed with which Lambeth metastasized into a “mainline” consensus that fertility limitation was fine and good, and in many churches that abortion was gauche but not wicked, was shocking to almost everyone involved.
Ultimately, Protestantism’s flirtation with abortion began in the 1930s, and basically fizzled by the 1970s; 80s at most. As a heresy it wasn’t even a very durable one in historic comparison.
Every since the 1970s, the parties have been realigning on religious and fertility lines, with differentials in age at marriage and childbearing, number of kids, and religiosity growing ever wider.
The historic Protestant association with fertility is so strong in fact that you can use 1850s church density as a strong predictor of birth rates, and some historic Protestant groups (Lutherans and more traditional Reformed) predict MUCH higher 19th century fertility.
