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swirlie Why do you have that view of Catholicism? It is a rich faith and understands the sacrifice Jesus made. It understands how God works. Catholicism is aware of the evils in the world. The sanctity of life matters in Catholicism.
Can you help me understand your point about Judaism? Are you saying it has fewer expectations? Fewer demands? That is never a good thing in religion, but you would be wrong anyway. Non-Jewish westerners tend to think that a Jew is a secular person from New York. Judaism does have demands, a lot of them. It has demands about whom you can marry, as in the ethnicity they should belong to. It is not enough for them to belong to your religion; they have to be born to Jewish parents, the same kind of Jewish parents. Jewish parents who are still Jewish, Hebrew Jewish. We have hundreds of laws, and traditional Judaism is strict. It is stricter than Catholicism.
Believe it or not, abortion also used to be a controversial practice in Israel. It is only in recent years that this has changed somewhat. Women still have to ask for permission from a committee, and the language used is what a modern woman like you would consider archaic.
“They are not your children. They are God's children. You are only the bearer of God's children and your children are not your possessions.”
They are not my possessions. We all belong to God. However, God gave us our children to raise, not for other people to raise. He also does not want us to be seduced by this material world, or think that it is necessary to our survival. What else does our child need beyond practical necessities and our love?
