By definition, if no living human is killed- if NO ONE DIES- the abortion has failed.
For an abortion to succeed, a baby MUST DIE- not by accident or natural causes, but by intentional murder of that baby.
So calling Abortion “Safe” is either willful ignorance or the most bitter of sarcasm, akin to saying condoms should be made free so that rape can be “safe.”
As murder is already illegal, it is impossible for Abortion to be legal. As it requires a baby to be murdered, it can never be safe.
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This year’s trial of the century has just ended, as Johnny Depp sued Ex-Wife Amber Heard for defamation, and she (Neener-Neener) sued him right back for defamation as well, both asserting that the other had abused them and then lied about it. Also, Amber’s dog stepped on a bee. That will be a pivotal piece of information later.
Amber, Whitney, and Johnny
On Johnny’s side, a few dozen witnesses came forward to say that Amber was lying, and to support Johnny’s version of events, such as the time Amber threw a bottle at him, costing him the end of one of his fingers. But on the other side was Amber’s sister Whitney who claims to have seen an actual act of violence. Or maybe she was the victim of an act of violence? Let me break it down for you.
One of the things I tend to notice a lot in conversations with skeptics is how many people tend to confuse Christianity with Islam. The God of the Bible is loving, merciful, Just, slow to anger, and compassionate. He does punish sin, but he gives time and opportunity for sinners to repent. (Repent means to turn away from sin and toward God). In many instances, He gives generations for a people to repent.
The god of Islam is not loving, nor merciful. He demands you earn your way to heaven, and commands you obey him merely because he has commanded.
In the Bible, God tells his people that He is presenting them with the way of life. He tells us to obey, not merely because he commands, but tells us (And we can know from experience and common sense) that He commands because WHAT he commands will give us life, joy, and peace. When the God of the Bible says “Do not sin” he is saying “Do not hurt yourself or others.” When he says “Obey,” He is showing us the way to our own joy and well being.
And this is not a criticism of Islam. I am not talking bad about Islam, but merely pointing out some of the key differences between the depiction of their god and the God of the Bible. So often people think they are the same, but they are not. For instance, as I said, God makes Adam and Eve to be his children, and He walks with them and talks to them. He warns them not to do what separates them from Him and what brings death.
In Islam, Allah is described as distant and so other than he cannot be understood. You cannot have a relationship with Allah. You merely obey because he commands, or you go to hell. THAT is like a dictatorship.
In response to This Article, our friend Essip wrote us some of his thoughts.
I had said, “If the entire human race is simply the byproduct of time and chance and evolutionary mechanisms, then why do black lives or any lives matter at all? From an evolutionary and atheistic world view NO lives matter, because “lives” are just accidental byproducts of a blind random chemical process…So nothing matters, nothing has value.”
And so he replied:
You hold a severe misunderstanding if you think that evolution, atheism or Darwin imply meaninglessness. Agreed, there is no absolute meaning. Meaning something for us. Meaning is in our minds. Black Lives matter to us, people. You don’t need an imaginary god to value meaning or to value lives. Atheism is not a form of psychopathy.
Why does a blood sacrifice pay for sins? When one opens their Bible to Hebrews 9:22 and reads
Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.
the natural inclination is to think about how different this is from our own personal experience and ask, “Hey, what’s with this blood business? WHY does blood pay for sins?”
Well… For that matter why does $4 pay for a bratwurst?
The media tried to do damage control for the AMAZING failure of Lightyear at the box office. This giant, beautiful, very expensive and tremendously hyped movie hit theaters, and families all over America said, “Mmmm. Nah.”
The Fight Begins.
And the media started asking WHY AREN’T PEOPLE GOING TO SEE LIGHTYEAR?!??!
Don’t they know that Pixar put lesbians in it? I mean, Pixar has had lesbians in their movies before on at least three other occasions, but BUT… those lesbians never KISSED On screen before! And in Lightyear…
GAY KISSING! Pixar has finally added what American families have been practically DEMANDING in their children’s movies: Girl on girl ACTION! Female kissing female in a SEXUAL way! Like, not some mom kissing her daughter, because there’s nothing sexual about that. We’re talking ADULT FEMALES IN A SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP KISSING EACH OTHER ON SCREEN! That’s what parents want for their kids’ entertainment, isn’t it? WELL? ISN’T IT?!?!?
But American audiences said, “No thanks.” And instead we went to see Minions: The Rise of Gru. I’ve seen it twice already. It’s really funny.
The Leftists couldn’t understand what happened. I mean… the Lesbians were kissing ON SCREEN. And families weren’t taking their kids to see that? How can that be?!?? Didn’t they hear about the Lesbian kissing? It’s almost all anyone was talking about! They MUST have heard! But they STILL weren’t bringing their kids to see this movie? Why?
Ok, but it gets WORSE. (And there will be SPOILERS for both movies coming here)
One of my many fans wrote in on this article to offer the following comment, Edited slightly for brevity:
Begging the Question is a logical fallacy that involves already assuming the thing you’re trying to prove to be true, in the lead up to the conclusion of your argument. By labelling God as a “neccessary being” you are putting God’s existence into the definition of God – saying he has to exist. Therefore, you are begging the question. I could do the same with anything. For example, lets say I make a claim about a Wolf King, and the definition of the Wolf King is that he created all wolves. Well, wolves couldn’t have existed if he didn’t, so he is a necessary being, and he must exist. Furthermore, it is never stated why infinite regression is impossible. To clarify, I do not claim to know where the universe came from, but you do. You claim this start point to be God, in other words you claim that the start point is both sentient and aware. You also claim, I assume, that this start point is your specific religion’s start point. To recap, you asserted that infinite regression is impossible, and beyond that you are begging the question by claiming God as a necessary being. Thank you, and I look forward to a response.
And I was delighted to offer the following response.
Sup, Yup? I am not begging the question, but I understand why it sounds like that. On the surface, it does look like we are saying, “We define God as a being that MUST exist, so obviously a being which MUST exist must exist. Thus, God exists.”
But the reason we define God as a being which MUST exist is not arbitrary, the way authors have tended to define elves as creatures with pointy ears. The necessity of God’s existence is derived, first from his self descriptions. The Bible tells us that God always has been and always will be. We are not forcing into Christianity something which the Bible does not already teach. The only other religion which claims an eternal God outside the Bible is Islam, and I’m not entirely sure about Islam (though it is clear they borrowed much of their ideas of God from the Bible, and the Koran even says so).
Next we can argue back toward that by way of the universe- the universe is time, space, matter, and energy. Nothing can be eternal in the past by ways of consecutive days, and the laws of physics tell us the universe must have had a beginning, and so we know the universe must have come into being.
If the flood was local, instead of global like the Bible says, Noah was an idiot.
When God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, Abraham’s nephew, Lot, was living there with his family. God didn’t have Lot build a shelter to hide in. He didn’t have Lot collect two of every kind of animal in the area to preserve them. God just told Lot to gather his family and run away. So, Lot and family run away, and God nukes Sodom and Gomorrah from space.
In short, God sends angels to Lot and they say, “God’s going to torch this place. You better get out of here.” And Lot gets out of there.
So if the flood was a local event, like the destruction of Sodom, and one for which Noah had lots of advanced warning and many years to prepare, what sense does it make to tell him to build an ark and fill it with animals when he and the animals could simply move to Higher Ground and avoid the flood entirely? A flood would be easier to outrun than a rain of fire from the heavens. God should have told Noah, “I’m going to flood this place out. You better get out of here.” And Noah would have grabbed his wife and kids and gotten out of there.
Instead, we’re supposed to believe that God shows up and says, “Hey, I’m flooding your whole neighborhood, from 7th avenue to 31st. All of that is going to be under water, over the highest mountain. Well, the highest mountain in your neighborhood.”
A Bit of Orange 