But if you have gone astray while married to your husband and you have made yourself impure by having sexual relations with a man other than your husband”— here the priest is to put the woman under this curse—“may the Lord cause you to become a curse among your people when he makes your womb miscarry and your abdomen swell.
- Numbers 5:20-21
Today God's will was done on the floor of the U.S. Senate! Just hours ago the Senate democrats voted to NOT cut federal funding to Planned Parenthood... proving either God has no power on American democracy or that God's will is for Planned Parenthood to continue to have federal funding .. OR one could always just go with the standby - it's because of "the fall" or that this world is cursed by the worst evil angel or something. It works this way with prayer too! Those that prayed for Planned Parenthood to be defunded did not have their prayers answered. Why? God's will? Mysterious ways maybe? Whatever answer you get in reality to your prayer there is always a "Christian reason" for that answer. It couldn't just be random life events playing themselves out at all in a universe devoid of cosmic purpose or anything. No. That's just unthinkable!
This whole debacle stemmed from a heavily edited undercover video by a conservative news group that has been proven misleading due to the parts being edited out. Also, all news is edited, yes - but what you find scrapped on the editing floor, so to speak -if it in fact changes the context when put back in and disproves the very thing you are suggesting this edited video proves -- then THAT'S dishonest. That's like quote-mining or cherry picking scientific data to prove your stupid points (something creationist morons like Kent Hovind Ray Comfort do constantly.)
Republican congressmen and Christians old and new alike took to the blog-o-sphere and social media calling for the defunding of Planned Parenthood. #DefundPlannedParenthood While this was happening basic facts on the ground lay ignored, brushed aside, or possibly just undiscovered by the supporters of this legislation. This would easily be corrected with a mild skepticism and a quick fact check that would lead readers to what Planned Parenthood actually does! Only about 3% of what Planned Parenthood does daily are abortions (of which 90% or so are before the first 20 weeks, and no federal funding is allowed for this - which seems like the point of this whole fucking thing!!!) So by cutting Planned Parenthood essentially those that follow Jesus are denying help to poor women. Something Jesus would say you were doing unto him ... Matthew 25:31-46. Nicely done there.
Dear Christian, here is another idea to consider - In 2013 and 2014, over 3.5 million patients were provided birth control services by Planned Parenthood. This was something many Evangelical Republicans were against. But that’s about 3.5 million potential abortions prevented! You cannot logically have it both ways. Have some foresight! what would happen if you would have gotten your way today and Planned Parenthood was defunded? Suddenly these millions of people are without birth control which of course will lead to more abortions! Just think about what you are doing before calling something to be defunded completely by the federal government. Plus, as I've stated many times before 97% of what Planned Parenthood provides is healthcare for women, and even men. This includes breast screenings to check for breast cancer, contraception, free STD tests all for women who cannot afford them in our crazy mostly-FOR-profit health system in this country!
Are there issues with Planned Parenthood? Of course, my libertarian friend rightly pointed a few of them out to me in an email today, but we have to look at the priorities of the Christian Republicans. See where loyalty ultimately lies. My friend is not like a typical Republican. He's consistent, but most of the Republicans calling for the defunding of Planned Parenthood are not! Unlike my libertarian friend, they don't have a problem with corporatism in Wall Street (where no one of the lower class benefits) but point out the evil corporatism in Planned Parenthood (which women of lower incomes DO benefit). All I'm saying is the priorities are backwards... we can talk about reinventing Planned Parenthood (as "sometimes libertarian" Rand Paul wants to do) to non-profit groups and so on but let's first focus in on corporatism and crony capitalism on Wall Street, or the banks, and large corporations... then we'll get to a this program that gives healthcare to poor women.
***Late Addition -
Dear Christian,
... as you sulk about the Planned Parenthood legislative decision today, reminding me of the still continued sulking of the Supreme Court Decision (you know those evil black robed elites that legislate from the bench! - which of course you were FOR in deciding our President in "Bush Vs. Gore") -- can you answer why you're weeping over terminating human fetuses without a central nervous system is not on par with actual death of innocent children in say Iraq in our last war? Most of the Christians I knew then were in full support of that war of choice and we didn't hear a single peep on the crushing of a baby's skull by an American bomb or a sharp shooter blowing the head off of a child as we saw at the beginning of Clint Eastwood's movie. These are actual babies, fully developed children not the size of a kidney bean.
There is disproportion in your lament of early death. And of course, this is just human beings. The overwhelming majority of Christians I've met in my lifetime consider the Earth something we are commanded to "subdue" - which of course means supporting the mass consumption of animals - the genocide of other species of animals by our hands is just God's intention for his favorite species. These ideas, this dogma that puts humans above the animals in all things, and pulls us out of the natural order is at the core of the problem with the global environment we are facing today. We are like giant toddlers, using toddler logic (just look at the 2016 GOP Presidential candidates for a clear example of this.) This country is getting more progressive though... as we've seen lately and I think we are experiencing the death throws of an antiquated, outdated way of viewing our place in the cosmos - religion.
Don't let the door hit you on the way out. American may be joining the rest of modern industrialized countries at the grown up table soon. We will see.
"Tea Party Republicans"... Love big government that hurts people and are against big government that helps people. Fuck them. - A text from "Gog" 1 min. ago.
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