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Starting it now just in case I won't be on here again before Monday.

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Originally posted by Scarlett Rose
I know this is not a debate, but in case you are pro-life, let me show you how contradictory you and your fellow pro-lifers are:

"Pro-lifers" (or ANTI-CHOICERS) are ignorant, uneducated, and CONTRADICTORY. They are not really pro-life as they claim to be.

If they were pro-life, they would NOT support a war killing thousands of REAL, INNOCENT children as opposed to an insignificant embryo or fetus. (The majority of pro-lifers are conservative republicans who SUPPORT the war.)

If they were pro-life, they would not support killing animals just to satisfy their taste buds, or to make a fashion statement (furs, animal skins, etc).

If they were pro-life, they would not kill insects.

If they were pro-life, they would not support "pro-lifers" who bomb abortion clinics, kill doctors who perform abortions, harass innocent employees at abortion clinics, nor would they do it themselves.

If they were pro-life, they would not support the dealth penalty.

If they were pro-life, they would adopt many many children since they supposedly "care so much" and want to make sure that all people considering abortions carry the pregnancy to term and give the child up for adoption.

If they were pro-life, they would NEVER make statements like "you should have been aborted".

If they were pro-life, they would be genuinely nice and understanding, and they would NEVER gossip about people, insult people, or hate people. Why are some pro-lifers SO mean? If they really cared about the lives of others, would they be mean, and judgemental? No, they wouldn't! Why aren't they nice to everyone? Since they are mean to people and hate people, that means it wouldn't matter to them if those people died, So why do they care about the lives of certain "people", and not others? That's not fair, and that's contradictory.

MY body, MY life, MY reproductive system, MY fetuses and embryos, MY business, MY choice.

Since when is a piece of flesh more important than a grown woman? Who cares if it has a heartbeat? The fetus or embryo may have a heartbeat, but that is NOT life. It is not a baby until it is viable. It can not survive without the mother's body, and the mother should not be forced to have her body used as an incubator. It's HER body. Forcing a woman to carry a child she does not want is more disgusting than rape. Statistics show that women who had forced pregnancies and gave their children up for adoption suffer more than women who have been raped. Rape is a quick thing. If you were already sexually active before being raped, it will not be so hard to deal with. But having to carry an unwanted child for 9 months and then having to give it up? That's extremely painful physically and emotional. That is over 9 months of physical struggles, and a lifetime of emotional struggles.

Also, the fetus may be "alive", but is it life? No! It's not. It is not yet living a real life. It is just a piece of flesh with a heartbeat. I can think of MANY more things with a heart beat which pro-lifers do NOT care about.

Did you know that illnesses are LIVING ORGANISMS? Yes, AIDS, and CANCER are LIVING. Does that mean that you should live with them, and let yourself die?

Did you know that tumors have PULSES? Yes, tumors have pulses and they are LIVING ORGANISMS. Does that mean you should let the tumor destroy your body?

I have plenty more examples showing how pro-lifers are contradictory, but I won't waste time.

We all know pro-lifers are uneducated, ignorant, and the only purpose of their life is to follow their bullsh*t religion so they can get to "heaven". They haven't got minds of their own, and are gullible enough to believe what the bible has to say.

The arguments pro-lifers make about abortion are wrong, anyway. They ALWAYS mention "God" when debating about abortion. WELL PRO-LIFERS, GUESS WHAT? You're wrong! There is NO proof of "God" therefore the "facts" you provide are FICTION!

Every pro-lifer should get a life, and leave everybody alone. My body is none of their business. My reproductive system is none of their business. My fetuses and embryos are none of their business. Have they nothing better to do than harass people all day? Are they THAT pathetic, and bored?

ALL pro-lifers are contradictory and their arguments are ridiculous. They say the stupidest things like:

"Why kill an innocent baby when you can give it to a family that wants kids but can't have kids?"

-First of all, other families are none of my business. Why should I waste 9 months of my life going through physical and emotional hell just so I can make a random couple happpy?
Second of all, There are already SO many unwanted children in this world. There are so many orphanages and foster homes, and NOBODY cares about the children in them. If there were really "SO many people who want kids but cant have them", then there wouldn't be any unwanted children out there!
Why bring another unwanted children into this already over-populated world?
Also, why don't pro-lifers adopt a few children themselves?
...I just proved that pro-lifers don't know what they are talking about and that they are CONTRADICTORY.


"if you're not ready for a child, you're not ready for sex! if you're not ready to face the consequences, don't spread your legs!"

-That is NOT true. Sex is a natural, beautiful, pleasurable thing which everybody should experience whether they are ready for children or not. Having children is not the only purpose of sex. If sex existed solely for reproducing, then orgasms would not exist! Sex is here for us to enjoy, not only to have children.
Also, there are SO many people who already have a few children, are happily married, but are NOT ready for more children. For example, Would you say that a middle aged woman who has children and is married but is NOT emotionally, physically, and financially ready for another child is not ready for sex? Of course you wouldn't! But of course that woman still has sex despite the fact that she's not ready for more children.
...Once again, I have proved that pro-lifers don't know what they are talking about and that they are contradictory.


"if you saw somebody trying to kill their child in the street of course you would do something about it"

-Yes, i'd do something about it, but that is totally irrelevant. That has NOTHING to do with abortion.
You can NOT compare a real child to a fetus or embryo.
Who cares if you terminate a pregnancy when the fetus or embryo can't feel anything and is NOT aware of anything occuring as opposed to a child that can feel and is aware?
It has been scientifically proven that a fetus can NOT feel anything before 20 weeks. 90% of abortions are terminated long before 20 weeks; long before the fetus can feel anything.
Even if a woman has an abortion after 20 weeks when the fetus can feel, who cares? The emotional and physical pain the mother goes through is much worse than the pain the fetus is going through. The fetus will only "feel pain" for a short while as opposed to a woman who will feel pain and discomfort for over 9 months. Also, the fetus's brain is not developed enough to acknowledge the situation. Why do you think nobody remembers being in their mother's stomach?
...Once again, I have proved pro-lifers wrong.

"what if your baby wouldve found the cure for aids or cancer?!?!"

-There are "what ifs" in EVERY situation no matter how minor or major it is. You can NOT justify something or say something is wrong based on "what ifs".
Here is a question I have for you, pro-lifers: "What if the baby would've been the next hitler?"
...Once again, MY argument WINS.


For the men: You don't have a right to oppose abortion, and you do NOT have the right to speak out against it. You also do NOT have the right to criticise women who have had abortions.
Let me tell you when you will be able to oppose abortion. You will be able to oppose abortion the day your PENIS turns into a VAGINA, the day you GROW A UTERUS, the day you get a MENSTRUAL PERIOD, the day your body CHANGES TO ACCOMODATE AN EMBRYO OR FETUS INSIDE OF IT, and the day YOU GET PREGNANT. That is the day you will be allowed to speak out against abortion. Too bad that will NEVER happen, so keep your ignorant opinions to yourself.
Originally posted by Scarlett Rose, responding to the question of why Christians are rightwing
Because they're stupid, contradictory, ignorant, uneducated, and primitive. Even in today's modern world they are primitive; They are desperate and have nothing better to rely on than religion.

They just can't accept the fact that one day they will die. They believe themselves to be superior and need to find a way to survive forever--Heaven is their foolish, unrealistic way.

Christians are morons, let's just leave it at that.
Finally

Originally posted by Scarlett Rose
Anybody who believes the bible is ignorant, uneducated, and extremely gullible.

The bible is an OUT DATED, FICTIONAL book written by random MEN thousands of years ago. How can somebody live their lives based on a FICTIONAL, CONTRADICTORY book written written thousands of years by a random man in today's MODERN times?
That is as ridiculous as me writing a book, releasing it anonymously, and somehow claiming that "God" wrote it... People would be stupid enough to believe it!

People just take comfort out of the bible and religion because they can't accept that they are going to die one day. They are arrogant AND ignorant fools who believe that they are so important that they will have life after death; "Heaven".

haha. So pathetic.
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"Pro-lifers" (or ANTI-CHOICERS) are ignorant, uneducated, and CONTRADICTORY. They are not really pro-life as they claim to be.
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Dumplin' Dumbash does it again! He tries to refute my point about the meaning of "faith" by plugging in "forensic proof" (the Acts 17:31 form of pistis) into OTHER VERSES which are in a different form (which mean "loyalty" or "faithfulness"). And of course he's having his usual self-esteem problem when confronted with real scholarship:

Let’s look at his essay on faith. He starts by giving four examples of people using the word “faith” in a way that a lot of Christians would be perfectly comfortable with, but which Holding says are in error. He then gives us his own “scholarly” definition, based on the works of such latter-day luminaries as Malina, Neyrey, deSilva, and Crook.

here is a particular snare that lies in wait for the unwary scholar, and it has to do with how scholarship works. You do not become a noted and respected scholar by just nodding your head and agreeing with what other scholars have already said. To rise to prominence in the scholastic world, you have to accomplish something unique and important. The obvious discoveries are going to get snatched up early on, meaning that the careers of subsequent scholars will depend on finding things obscure and/or insignificant enough to have escaped notice up to now. You won’t advance to academic prominence by making discoveries that are merely trivial and obscure, however, so you must also find some way in which your discovery has some kind of hitherto unappreciated significance.

In short, the trap nature lays for the scholar is the temptation to zero in on obscure, trivial details, to inflate their significance, and then to convince yourself and others that you have accomplished some significant, scholarly achievement by doing so. (There’s a further temptation to consider yourself elite and superior to those who do not possess your knowledge of profound scholarly minutiae, but perhaps the reader will have already seen some examples of this elsewhere....

Notice that Holding insists that this one non-standard usage gives us “a clue” about what the other usages mean, but he doesn’t offer any reason why this should be the case. And it’s poor linguistic scholarship: meaning is determined by usage in context, not by what other usages might mean in other contexts. Calling the variant usage a “clue” is simply reading into the text what you want to find there.

Holding’s favorite scholars may indeed have found an obscure, ancient client/patron practice, and Holding may think that he’s got some special access to a secret, scholarly gnosis because he knows about it, but they’ve fallen into the snare of using the obscure to displace and denigrate the original emphasis, as given by Jesus and the apostles.
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Impossible.
She hasn't been on Y!A for 2 years and has cut off all means of communication. We're screwed, basically.
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I posted a link to John's discussion on Paul and Marcion. in the comment section, he devotes two comments to the idea

Paul, assuming he existed...
the fact that he considers the idea that Paul never existed as even close to credible speaks volumes.

I don't know why I ever deal with him.

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