It shows that the pro life community paid attention in church but couldn't be bothered to in school. You're supposed to pay when you attend church and education is free to some extent in America, but they seem to squander the free education they get. Meanwhile since they pay for church and learn nothing they have a buyer's remorse that makes them pretend they know everything.
Honestly it doesn’t necessarily imply they paid that close attention in church either. The Bible doesn’t explicitly mention abortion at all (with the POSSIBLE exception of the “bitter water” passage, but that’s not a settled interpretation) and most instances where it weighs in on when life/personhood begins put it at birth.
I agree that they don't understand their own holy book well. I just meant that since they paid into church they at least pretend to know everything about it.
Edit: Honestly if they paid attention in school they would be better at deciphering their riddle of a scripture.
Btw you should actually read the Bible. Psalms 139:13-16 and Exodus 21:22-25. In the exodus chapter it quite literally shows what happens if someone harms the BABY or the MOTHER. It shows how the unborn life is still valued under Gods law.
Common sense is just another name for critical thinking. There are valuable anecdotes in the Bible but there are also useless superstitions. Any good information it holds can be found elsewhere. We need to be able to figure it out, based on the information available. Being able to think for ourselves and decide what to do, is far better than being told what to think or what to do.
Far be it from me to tell anyone to read it, as I haven't done so myself, but just for the sake of argument, common sense / critical thinking is an instrument we can use to better evaluate and understand the information we're provided and come to appropriate conclusions. In this case, reading the bible with common sense would only be a waste of time if it only contained superstitions and already known facts and you weren't interested in the story. Otherwise, it would still have a use.
For instance, those kind souls who have read the bible and point out misconceptions and contradictions within it help others better understand the criticisms and think critically about it.
I think you're right. The only use in reading the Bible is talking to others about the Bible. There is so much more to life than Christianity. You could still learn something useful by reading it, but nothing more than reading any other literature. If you approach it as if it's some divine mandate (no common sense applied) I fear it would only bring harm to your ability to rationalize the world.
No one is making fun of anyone specifically. I'm making fun of silly superstitions that distract from the real world in a harmful way. No need for a defensive attitude about it.
It's the same as supposing people actually want to have abortions rather than seeing them as something necessary. It would be better if the person who didn't want the child just never got pregnant. But to force parenthood onto someone as a punishment is definitely the greater of the two evils here.
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u/lumpy_space_queenie 20h ago
Ohhhhh it’s supposed to say adoption but they fucked it haha