Life on earth DOES matter, my friend. I want to bring to heaven with me as many as people as I possibly can! Truly, that's my bottom-line mission.
Great! So you agree that we, as a society, should do our best to make sure everyone has sufficient housing, food and health care, right? Because life on Earth matters, and life is precious to you. Not just unborn life, but...uh...born life too. Right?
I read that Bernie Sanders ran almost even with Biden among black voters. If so, that's awfully bad news for Biden going into South Carolina. While most likely Biden will stay in through Super Tuesday at least, I wouldn't be that surprised if he dropped out earlier if he doesn't win in South Carolina.
Yep, I do agree on these matters. Jesus has many sermons on caring for the poor, downtrodden, sick, and "the least of these", etc. I believe in tithing (and more) to my church and other ministries, which, as part of their respective budgets, do wonderful things to help mitigate those woes. To be honest, I wish some of our churches did more in these efforts. In a perfect world, I don't believe it's truly the role of government to take on these types of responsibilities as a whole. As part of Christian stewardship, I also believe volunteering of my time can help, as well. My wife and I are planning to be involved with a local Christian ministry that ministers to the homeless here in Nashville. I'll also be volunteering at food pantry that provides food to the less fortunate. Really looking forward to that. OK, I'm pretty sure you probably don't care all that much about these types of things I'm taking part in. But, all that to say, I'm more about people that are able to step up, get involved, serve, teach, give, etc., than I am about simply throwing tax money at government agencies and putting the responsibility purely on them to handle all this stuff. Now, this is NOT to say that we don't need various government entities helping out in this regard. We do. Not everything is a "right", though. And the idea of handouts simply for handout sake is wrong. Oh, and we could all learn from the ant, as well. https://letgodbetrue.com/proverbs/index/chapter-6/proverbs-6-6/
I'm tellin' ya...when the time comes, I wouldn't be all that surprised if Bernie were to make amends with Warren and actually ask her to become his running mate. They appear to agree on some core values, they're both relatively popular, her being a woman certainly doesn't hurt any, and paired together might very well give Trump a strong run for his money...so to speak.
Sanders is unlikely to tap Warren as running mate, not out of disrespect, but because both are over 70 white liberal New England senators. I can't see Democrats running an all white ticket and if 78 year old Sanders is the nominee he'll want a younger Veep. I still think Stacy Abrams is a leading choice, although if Sanders had trouble in California he could pick Kamala Harris. Feeding the hungry will be a growth industry if you get your way, @ABM. Do they ever talk about how Trump's cuts to the SNAP program and the Women Infants Children food aid has made them hungrier? Or how making it harder to get disability will cause some to lose their only income? Or the impact of his proposed trillion dollar cut to Social Security and Medicare on hunger in America? Or of family separation? Forced pregnancy? Are any formerly incarcerated? Do they wonder why they paid for their misdeeds but Trump says he is above the law? Do they wonder why the rich need another trillion dollar tax cut while they lose their tiny services? Or do you just hand out bibles and MAGA hats with a bowl of soup? A woman wrote an op-ed recently in the New York Times after Trump, who tried unsuccessfully to force his second wife to have an abortion, asked what kind of monster would have a third trimester abortion. She said she had done so when tests late in pregnancy showed the fetus had no neurological connections. The parts of the brain were there but there was no function. As in zero. Unable to function on the most basic animal level, let alone human. The article resulted in a lot of letters. Most were sympathetic; a few called her baby killer and said their god wanted her to carry to term. (So easy to say your god wants someone else to suffer!) Some of the opposed letters deliberately misconstrued as simply a handicapped child. The heartbreaker was from a woman who said that test was not available when she was pregnant and her son was born with that condition. He can't see, hear, speak, is incapable of purposeful movement. Some profoundly intellectually disabled people still have enough awareness to have an emotional tie with their care givers; he has none. Her marriage broke up under pressure of caring for him although she and her ex still share responsibility. Neither remarried or had other children. Because of the demands of his care, neither has ever taken a vacation and they have no social life. They put him in a wheel chair in the morning. He is fed through a tube since he can't chew and swallow. He sits all day drooling as he has no muscle control. They put him to bed at night. The real gut punch: he is 47 years old. Assuming the parents were at least 20 when he was born, they are now pushing 70 or older. Their whole adult lives have been in a prison of full time caring for someone less responsive than a potted plant. The kind of person Trump thinks it's funny to publicly mock and ridicule. Presumably ABM thinks that's just dandy. Hey, if they worship the same way he does maybe they will go to heaven. (Although if they aren't his religion they just face even more hell, correct?) ABM references himself as happily married. Got any daughters? If, heaven forbid, your 11 year old daughter was raped and pregnant, could you be hateful enough to tell this actually born suffering child while she sobbed and pleaded and begged you not to force her to carry the pregnancy that she is just an incubator for a rapist's sperm? Or that if she wasn't such a slut she wouldn't have gotten raped? Trump clearly loves cruelty, he's a schoolyard bully who gets off on other people's suffering. And having been a clinic escort it seems that is a trait shared by most of the anti-choice activists. There are few things that piss me off more than a bunch of smug self-righteous sanctimonious men sticking their noses in the air and talking about how awesome it is for them to force their will on women's bodies either by physical force or by passing law after law. I swear I sometimes just want to slice off their .... noses....
Do you believe there is any limit on how late a healthy baby can be aborted? Your anecdotal pieces of evidence regarding rape and disability are perfectly fair examples of special circumstances that should be exempt, but they make up a very small percentage of total abortions. I’m sure there are religious fanatics that believe a term should be carried out no matter what the circumstances, which is ridiculous. But aborting a healthy 8 or 9 month old baby is also ridiculous. Obviously there is some middle ground, some point in development which you can scientifically determine a fetus as a viable human being who’s life shouldn’t be ended.
The Supreme Court has already dealt with this. They've said that a baby is viable after the second trimester or after six months of pregnancy and they set that as the upper limit for an abortion. As for earlier abortions, I believe the fetus is not yet developed enough to feel pain and thus should leave it up to the woman to decide whether we think her decision is wise or sinful. It's up to her. There is a solution, we could confine pregnant women to some sort of pregnancy camp where she would be monitored 24/7 by armed guards who would guarantee that she could not perform some self abortion. You know, sort of like a prison. I vote no.
@ABM @TorturedBlazerFan So, this anti-abortion stance using christianty dumbfounds me. On one side you claim it is murder and god is against it. Yet, abortion is not mentioned in the old or new testament. Being anti-abortionist is judging women, judging their choice, yet God says thou shall not judge: "Judge not, that ye be not judged. For what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged. And with what measure you mete, it shall be measured to you again." Matthew 7:1-2 "Why do you look at the sawdust in your (brother's) sister's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye. How can you say (brother) sister, let me take the speck out of your eye, when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye..." Matthew 7:3-5 It is said distinctly God is the only Judge "There is only one lawgiver and judge, the one who is able to save and destroy, but you, who are you to judge your neighbor?" James 4:12 So how can you be the judge of these women and their choice? Why should their choice be yours? Why should they have none?
Anyone every watch Dexter? All seasons complete? I asked not as out of context as it may seem. The right to life is a battle for all living things, not just unborn fetus, eggs, or spawnings. If anyone has watched it, love to go deeper into this topic both about abortion and the death penalty, because they are a closer relation than most think about. So... Any Dexter fans? https://www.sho.com/dexter
