Anti-Abortion is the Lazy Man's Christianity.........

[DemocracyInaction]

Fighting for "the living" both here and around the world is where Christianity becomes a hard row to hoe. It means action, sacrifice and being beat half to death by the goddamn greedy "good Christians" who don't want to spend a dime on others. It requires no sweat and no sacrifice to spit on others, condemn and set oneself up as the great moral judge (who died and made them god). These people don't know the meaning of the words "doing the work of God" because the word "work" is the key to it all.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. Good point. It means spending your resources

feeding and educating the living as opposed to buying billboards and bumperstickers.

[funflower]

2. You mean Jesus wanted us to do more than put a fish on our SUV?

[FreedomAngel82]

10. And don't forget

what James said in the book of James: "faith without works is dead."

[China_cat]

3. Remember

work is a dirty four-letter word ending in 'k'.

[havocmom]

4. and the Lazy Man's Christianity also allows for misogynists to push women

around.

Ever defend the property line at a Planned Parenthood Clinic and go toe to toe/nose to nose with one of those creeps? You realize you are staring into the eyes of insanity.

[Ilsa]

5. Yep. Little old me has been there. Toe-to-toe.

Sometimes we smiled back at one another, but it was usually vitriolic and hateful chants coming our way.

I can't believe we still have to fight these goddamn battles all over again decades later, too. And back then, women twenty years older than me were saying the same thing. We must be vigilant in defending our liberties, whether it is nonviolent counterprotests or more.

[Wise Child]

6. I see your point, but one could argue it keeps them occupied

with just one issue. They tend to be single issue voters. Politicans make this wedge issue multi-faceted. Parental concent (so often on the state level), "Parital Birth Abortion", Laci Peterson Bill, at the expense of advancing modern medicine Stem-Cell Research, and a few others. One could argue this turns them into busy bodies, running in circles.

On the other hand, many don't care what happens to them after they're born. The single issue renders their minds lazy. Maybe they will start listening to Rush Limbaugh to fill them in on the other issues.

[FreedomAngel82]

11. Yep

For most of these people if it came down to voting against gay marriage or a better economy they wouldn't choose the economy which is really sad and depressing to think about. That's why gay marriage was such a huge thing and "moral values." Oh and speaking of "moral values" a porn star is going to be at a Bush fundraising event. It was in the Washington Post (her name is Mary Carey).

[Ian David]

7. If stem cells are "babies," then how come they've never been ransomed?

Here's a fictional hypothetical scenario:

What if some stem cell researcher went on TV with a test tube full of 5 million fertilized eggs and threatened to flush them down the toilet unless the government agreed to give $100 Billion to AIDS research or Alternative Energy?

"Five Million tiny little babies! Right here in my hand! And they're all cloned from DNA from the hair follicles left on Rick Santorum's hair brush. Five Million tiny little Rick Santorum babies unless..."

Damn, if I worked at a fertility clinic... well, I'd be in jail by now.

[WillyT]

8. Wow !!! - THAT... Is A Great Quote !!!

Nicely put!

:yourock:

[noiretextatique]

9. it's also a great way to be controlling and hypocritical

someone posted a very eye-opening article about anti-choice women who had abortions. to a one, they managed to "kill their babies," but heaven forbid if other women choose to do the same.

[FreedomAngel82]

12. Of course

Because a politician (mostly with an r by their name) spouts a few Bible verses and does some stuff to appeal the fundie base (think of the Texas governor) then they'd vote for that person. I wonder how Jimmy Carter would do now days....