I came across this while chasing links (how else?) and while I prefer arguments to anecdotes these stories were illuminating. If blatant hypocrisy makes you angry, steer clear.
http://mypage.direct.ca/w/writer/anti-tales.html
UPDATE: I have just been reading about belief systems, a guy I only know as "Green 1971" states that often belief systems exist as clusters that are only internally coherent. Contradictions in the overall belief system (between clusters) are rarely detected as the clusters are never set side by side and examined for inconsistency.
In the case of the Pro-Lifer who suddenly 'needs' an abortion we have an example of two belief clusters being set side by side for the first time.
Belief cluster 1: Abortion is always morally wrong and it should be illegal.
Belief cluster 2: I need to make choices that are best for my individual situation.
The result of being confronted with conflicting belief clusters in this case appears to be (if one believes all the anecdotes) passionate justification of one's own choice while remaining convinced that it is wrong in all other cases.
This is almost proof that religion teaches one not to examine one's belief system despite the intimate presence of a contradictory reality. If it weren't for the number of intelligent, articulate Christians I know, I would say that it is proof that religion cannot afford an intelligent population.
"Judge not lest ye be judged." There are, despite the misogyny and hypocrisy, some beautiful bits of wisdom in the bible. Sadly, the folk picketing outside abortion clinics, labeling women and doctors 'murderers', appear to feel they are exempt from this particular teaching. I'd listen to their justifications for it if I thought they'd make the slightest bit of sense.
Sunday, 27 July 2008
The only moral abortion is my abortion: When Pro-Lifers have to choose.
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This verse is the most oft-slung piece of scripture used by people to justify doing things which people indeed should judge as wrong.
If you read the whole scripture (nay, the whole Bible), you'd see that God does not forbid making judgements, but desires those judgements to be righteous.
Here is the WHOLE verse:
For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. 3 And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye? 4 Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye’; and look, a plank is in your own eye? 5 Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
So, unless those picketers are having abortions themselves and not repenting, killing babies themselves like the abortionists do and the women pay to have done- If they are not doing these things or worse, then they are not hipocrites and can be judged by that same measure without consequence.
"Judge not" and "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone" appear to be the only scriptures non-believers know, and they toss them around incorrectly to justify living wicked lives.
I wish prochoicers would learn just one scripture: Thou shall not kill.
I wish Pro-Lifers would read the entire post before spouting bits of the bible at me. The post was ABOUT Pro-Lifers who have abortions.
I was about Pro-Lifers who used different measures to judge themselves when they suddenly needed an abortion.
Please read the whole post, and better yet, understand the whole post, before jumping the gun, eh?
Where do you stand on war jacquefromtexas?
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