Reproductive healthcare indeed. I counsel with a woman who has had two abortions. She longs to see those babies. She knows there was no healthcare involved. Thankfully she has repented, is repenting all the time and loves Jesus and cherishes her living children. Pray for K.
Best line of the day, “ I don't want to be mean or anything, but the word "seemingly" there kind of feels like a wrecking ball.” Of course, there’s only one “faith tradition,” in the interfaith family that the author is really wanting Harris to highlight. She most certainly doesn’t want Harris to get out there and talk about “right action,” which is the Hindu notion of desirelesness or “action without desire for fruit of the action,” or expounding on the finer points of the Caste system and how folks must stay within the Caste into which they were born. Of course, the article is simply saying that Harris needs to continue to say utterly meaningless things about the importance of her faith, but I’m not entirely certain who she thinks this will appeal to. It’s all just so much white noise.
"He keeps his own council. He chooses his own pronouns."
I am used to hearing God misgendered at AA meetings. I once remarked to my Sponsor's Sponsor, "Isn't it funny how God is the only one Who doesn't get to choose His own pronouns?"
He quickly agreed. Or, so I thought. He said, "I said that same thing myself! Why are all these people going around using male pronouns for God when there is no basis for that?!" I had to let him know that I was on the other side of this divide from him.
Also,THIS!
"... the way in which Jessica Grose perceives the clownish faith efforts of Mr. Trump to be so useless is exactly the way that I, an actual Christian, view Ms. Harris’ attempts to leverage her interfaith childhood to persuade beleaguered voters to vote for more abortion."
Kamala Harris: "It should not be the government or Donald Trump telling a woman what to do with her own body."
I love how, when it comes to abortion, Democrats are complete libertarians (the government has no right to tell you what to do), yet with every other issue they believe the government has EVERY right to tell you what to do. They want government to have almost complete control over our lives.
But the abortion argument that the government has no right to tell you what you can do to your own body is inherently flawed. Why? Because suicide laws are an example of the government telling you that you can't do something to your body (i.e. kill yourself). Yet most Democrats seem to be okay with suicide laws.
The point I'm making here is that if the government has the right to prohibit you from killing yourself, it logically follows that it also has the right to prohibit you from getting an abortion.
Exactly. There are lots of things that the government tells us that we can’t do with our own bodies. And also, it’s a disingenuous argument because as your example points out, no one actually believes in completely bodily autonomy. Most pro-abortion folks even draw the line on partial-birth abortion, but technically that would be a case where aligning with the bodily autonomy argument would force you to be accepting of partial-birth abortion if you were to apply that standard consistently.
I leave this here with ALL the disclaimers. I don’t know what conclusions, if any, can be drawn, and I don’t necessarily agree with the editorial at the end, but I do find it interesting.
I wish we could just “leave God out of it” when making life decisions, but as Christians striving to be more like Him, we often have to choose between the lesser of two evils. The case in point is Trump with all of his moral baggage. It have been his opponents? Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris?
Reproductive healthcare indeed. I counsel with a woman who has had two abortions. She longs to see those babies. She knows there was no healthcare involved. Thankfully she has repented, is repenting all the time and loves Jesus and cherishes her living children. Pray for K.
Best line of the day, “ I don't want to be mean or anything, but the word "seemingly" there kind of feels like a wrecking ball.” Of course, there’s only one “faith tradition,” in the interfaith family that the author is really wanting Harris to highlight. She most certainly doesn’t want Harris to get out there and talk about “right action,” which is the Hindu notion of desirelesness or “action without desire for fruit of the action,” or expounding on the finer points of the Caste system and how folks must stay within the Caste into which they were born. Of course, the article is simply saying that Harris needs to continue to say utterly meaningless things about the importance of her faith, but I’m not entirely certain who she thinks this will appeal to. It’s all just so much white noise.
Sadly, I think any reference to someone supposedly having some kind of “faith”’appeals to the “spiritual but not religious” crowd.
I mean, Hallmark has built a business around shallow sentimentality so that tracks.
Hahaha, that’s true, and a good point.
"He keeps his own council. He chooses his own pronouns."
I am used to hearing God misgendered at AA meetings. I once remarked to my Sponsor's Sponsor, "Isn't it funny how God is the only one Who doesn't get to choose His own pronouns?"
He quickly agreed. Or, so I thought. He said, "I said that same thing myself! Why are all these people going around using male pronouns for God when there is no basis for that?!" I had to let him know that I was on the other side of this divide from him.
Also,THIS!
"... the way in which Jessica Grose perceives the clownish faith efforts of Mr. Trump to be so useless is exactly the way that I, an actual Christian, view Ms. Harris’ attempts to leverage her interfaith childhood to persuade beleaguered voters to vote for more abortion."
Kamala Harris: "It should not be the government or Donald Trump telling a woman what to do with her own body."
I love how, when it comes to abortion, Democrats are complete libertarians (the government has no right to tell you what to do), yet with every other issue they believe the government has EVERY right to tell you what to do. They want government to have almost complete control over our lives.
But the abortion argument that the government has no right to tell you what you can do to your own body is inherently flawed. Why? Because suicide laws are an example of the government telling you that you can't do something to your body (i.e. kill yourself). Yet most Democrats seem to be okay with suicide laws.
The point I'm making here is that if the government has the right to prohibit you from killing yourself, it logically follows that it also has the right to prohibit you from getting an abortion.
Exactly. There are lots of things that the government tells us that we can’t do with our own bodies. And also, it’s a disingenuous argument because as your example points out, no one actually believes in completely bodily autonomy. Most pro-abortion folks even draw the line on partial-birth abortion, but technically that would be a case where aligning with the bodily autonomy argument would force you to be accepting of partial-birth abortion if you were to apply that standard consistently.
I leave this here with ALL the disclaimers. I don’t know what conclusions, if any, can be drawn, and I don’t necessarily agree with the editorial at the end, but I do find it interesting.
https://x.com/tacoforfive1/status/1836130652514849194?s=46
Trump did nominate three Supreme Court Justices that led to the overturning of Roe v Wade. That can never be overlooked as a Pro-Life Christian.
I wish we could just “leave God out of it” when making life decisions, but as Christians striving to be more like Him, we often have to choose between the lesser of two evils. The case in point is Trump with all of his moral baggage. It have been his opponents? Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris?