RE: Stupid things religious people say
August 3, 2023 at 1:53 am
(This post was last modified: August 3, 2023 at 1:56 am by Fake Messiah.)
(August 2, 2023 at 2:41 pm)Varium Wrote: Despite being an Atheist, I am pro-life. Most of my family are pro-choice, and so I often get into debates with them, the time this particular incident happened was while I was talking to my grandmother. We were debating, and she said "Abortion is between a woman and God." I informed her that I'm an Atheist, and she said "No you aren't!". Not even in a joking manner, she genuinely thinks I'm not.
Yeah, there are atheists that are against abortion. For example, Roger Ebert was against abortion.
But there are many Christians, including Catholic priests who are for abortion (especially when nuns get pregnant).
In fact, many doctors who perform abortions are Christians. Take Dr. George Tiller who was assassinated in the vestibule of his home church, Reformation Lutheran, in Wichita, Kansas, handing out bulletins for the day’s services.
There is also The Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice which is an abortion rights organization founded in 1973 by clergy and lay leaders.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
