Of DVD players and abortion.
Perhaps I have dug too greedily and too deep in the belly of Craigslist, for I have uncovered a pet peeve I didn't know I had. DVD player reliability, motherfucker. Let me explain: I would like a DVD player. I need it for cheap, because only on occasions few and far between do I light my blunts with Benjamins
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Short of my life being in danger, I wouldn't get an abortion. But that doesn't mean I have the right or duty to prevent someone else from getting one. You can't legislate morality. Abortions will happen.
What we should do, instead of banning abortions, is give women more options, so that if they keep the baby, they get the support needed to raise it without falling into abject poverty. Hell, if we just made healthcare more affordable, that'd be a good start. But the GOP is against universal healthcare, so that's not an option for them.
As for the nature of sin/sinning, I'm a Christian, and I concur with the "all sins are equal" as well as the "judge not lest ye be judged" philosophy that you find in the gospels; Christians should strive to be "christ-like", and that includes loving your neighbors, regardless of their sins, and knowing that they, not you, will have to answer to God, and it's their choice, not yours, about how they deal with it. Above all else, Christ calls us to love, and that is the philosophy I stand by. It's easier to make the right, tough choices when you have people who love and care about you, rather than those people just caring about the number of souls they can hand fire insurance policies to.
Unfortunately many of my far-right bretheren have a shallow, "Christ died for my sins, so no matter what I do, I can ask for forgiveness" approach to it. It's horrifically hypocritical, but I'm pretty sure that's how they justify bombing abortion clinics, and other hateful, sinful, violent actions. It's how they justify leaders who commit adultery and other crimes they detest--"oh, but they're sorry now." Like they think women who have abortions do it for fun or something.
But it's not surprising, because so few of them actually read the Bible, let alone read it with a semi-critical eye. Mostly, they listen to what their preachers tell them about the Bible. When someone points out passages which counter their claims, they simply argue we've "misinterpreted" it, or, if they're the fire & brimstone kind like you often find on college concourses, they tell you that even the Devil can quote scripture(which I find ironic, considering the way they quote verses taken out of context). The problem is, the people like this are just so damned vocal about it, and they make everyone think that *everyone* who calls themself a Christian is a hypocritical nutjob. They're really very analogous to the Pharisees in the New Testament, though few ever would identify themselves as such.
I know I *used* to see the world in a black and white mindset. I think it's part of a phase most people go through when they're younger. But most of us grow out of that and see the world for what it is--shades of grey; yes, there is good and bad, but there can be bad sides to good things, and vice versa (like asbestos--it was a wonderous building material, until we realized it might save you from dying in a fire, but it will kill you with cancer). After all, few people really think *they're" the bad guy. Even the villain is the hero of his story. But those people are stuck in the black/white phase. So they feel they have to tell us what's bad, because they think we can't see it for ourselves. They're 2-D people telling us we can only go left or right, without seeing we're 3-D, and there's a third option.
Well. That's more involved than I intended. I just get tired of all Christians getting stomped on because of a crazy vocal fringe group who refuses to use the brains God gave them.
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