Comments on: Podcast #55 – Assassination of George Tiller http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/06/11/podcast-55-assassination-of-george-tiller/ Question. Think. Decide. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:05:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Satyr http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/06/11/podcast-55-assassination-of-george-tiller/comment-page-1/#comment-4250 Satyr Sat, 18 Jul 2009 14:44:34 +0000 http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/?p=850#comment-4250 Hey guys, I forgot to mention on my last post that I just started listening to your podcast a couple of weeks ago. I love it, keep up the good work! I liked your conversation about abortion. Speaking of Christians not always believing what they say, I always thought the Evangelical take on abortion is inconsistent with their theology. They believe that children younger the “age of reason” go to heaven if they die. The same goes for aborted fetuses. They also believe if adults are not “saved” they will go to hell. Inmates on death row could be considered the very worst people in society and one would assume they would be the least likely to go to heaven. On which group do you suppose they spend the most time and energy? The group that automatically goes to heaven or the group that is right up to the very edge of hell and about to fall in? As a matter of fact I think many Evangelicals even support the death penalty. If you take this argument even further, if you allow a loop hole for children and fetuses, wouldn’t it be much better for humanity if all fetuses were aborted? That way an entire generation would go directly to heaven. And since no one would be born, you’d even be “saving” the countless trillions who would’ve been born in the future! I grew up in a fundamentalist church. Once when I was 16 there was a special youth group meeting billed as an “Open Minded” forum on abortion. In reality it was a series of people standing up on a stage telling us how abortion ruined their lives and how they were lost without Jesus. When the time came for a discussion, I stood up and asked them about if they thought fetuses went to heaven. Some people said yes, so I asked them why they would bother to try to end abortion. Wow. Hell hath no fury like abortion fanatics confronted on their home ground! Everyone stood up and started arguing and yelling and then the whole crowd pushed me up on the stage and surrounded me. The youth group leader came out and started screaming at me, calling me an anarchist and a Satanist. So much for open minded! I suspect the real reason the “pro-life/anti-choice” movement is so zealous about this issue is because they want to tell the “non-Christians” that their way of life is so flawed that they callously “kill” children. Later, Satyr Hey guys, I forgot to mention on my last post that I just started listening to your podcast a couple of weeks ago. I love it, keep up the good work!

I liked your conversation about abortion.

Speaking of Christians not always believing what they say, I always thought the Evangelical take on abortion is inconsistent with their theology. They believe that children younger the “age of reason” go to heaven if they die. The same goes for aborted fetuses. They also believe if adults are not “saved” they will go to hell. Inmates on death row could be considered the very worst people in society and one would assume they would be the least likely to go to heaven. On which group do you suppose they spend the most time and energy? The group that automatically goes to heaven or the group that is right up to the very edge of hell and about to fall in? As a matter of fact I think many Evangelicals even support the death penalty. If you take this argument even further, if you allow a loop hole for children and fetuses, wouldn’t it be much better for humanity if all fetuses were aborted? That way an entire generation would go directly to heaven. And since no one would be born, you’d even be “saving” the countless trillions who would’ve been born in the future!
I grew up in a fundamentalist church. Once when I was 16 there was a special youth group meeting billed as an “Open Minded” forum on abortion. In reality it was a series of people standing up on a stage telling us how abortion ruined their lives and how they were lost without Jesus. When the time came for a discussion, I stood up and asked them about if they thought fetuses went to heaven. Some people said yes, so I asked them why they would bother to try to end abortion. Wow. Hell hath no fury like abortion fanatics confronted on their home ground! Everyone stood up and started arguing and yelling and then the whole crowd pushed me up on the stage and surrounded me. The youth group leader came out and started screaming at me, calling me an anarchist and a Satanist. So much for open minded!
I suspect the real reason the “pro-life/anti-choice” movement is so zealous about this issue is because they want to tell the “non-Christians” that their way of life is so flawed that they callously “kill” children.

Later,
Satyr

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