As judges weigh the limits of medical exceptions, Idaho’s abortion ban is being tested — in courts, hospitals and patients’ lives
I just have a hard time understanding how people look at these situations and think: yes, this is good and right. This is showing compassion.
They’re not looking at these situations at all. They’re ignoring them. Their only care is that abortion is abolished.
As a Christian….
…she figured that if a woman really needed one, she could get it.
Ignorance is bliss; until it’s not.
“It’s not a problem until it affects me”
These fuckers don’t deserve the compassion they deny others.
It’s not as black and white as that; I pity people like her. They have been lied to their entire lives; first by their parents, then by other supposed trusted adults (like priests or whatever their cult calls their leaders these days), and finally by Big Brother. So to some extent, they too are victims¥.
¥ There are limits of course to my pity.
They have had more than enough time and access to national and world news to have figured it out in their own. The real news will be what these people - and people in similar situations - do going forward with their newfound cognitive dissonance.
… you think they care about compassion?
Empathy is a sin, now.
Is it naive for me to hope that they would?
Yes. How many people do you think hoped that the nazis wouldn’t be as horrible as they were?
constant media manipulation and brain washing. I knew something was wrong, though I wasn’t equipped to articulate it or do anything about it, when I got to kindergarten and all the kids told me I couldn’t be friends with girls because “that’s just not how it works.”
These people are trapped in media bubbles and they lack diversity of perspective. The way their factional group does things is the only way they understand the world because no one has ever presented them anything else. And the people who have them locked in reduce the risk of them ever encountering a new perspective by programming them to be fearful of other perspectives and people. They perpetrate their culture war by convincing their thrall that we’re the culture warriors coming to dismantle their way of life. Meanwhile all we want is to be allowed to eat our foods, love who we love, and play our music
“I’ve always just felt that as a Christian, my only job is to love on others,” Desi said. “God gave us free will, and God gave us the ability to choose, and my belief system doesn’t get to take away that choice of someone else.”
That doesn’t sound very Christian to me.
The statement attributed to Jesus “I come not to bring peace, but to bring a sword” has been interpreted by some as a call to arms for Christians. Mark Juergensmeyer argues that “despite its central tenets of love and peace, Christianity—like most traditions—has always had a violent side. The bloody history of the tradition has provided disturbing images and violent conflict is vividly portrayed in the Bible. This history and these biblical images have provided the raw material for theologically justifying the violence of contemporary Christian groups. For example, attacks on abortion clinics have been viewed not only as assaults on a practice that Christians regard as immoral, but also as skirmishes in a grand confrontation between forces of evil and good that has social and political implications”, sometimes referred to as spiritual warfare. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_and_violence
