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Kate Cox’s ‘hellish’ experience reveals the reality of Texas’s abortion exceptions
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There is learning opportunity in this for everyone. I mean everyone and every which side. Its sad that there WILL be collateral damage and I wish as a society "everyone" didn't need to ALWAYS fall down the cliff to find out whats at the bottom
Edit: part of the usefulness of the Bible is experiencing things second-hand so you can absorb the lesson and not have to necessarily end up in all the situations. I don't know why its advocates fail to internalize this lesson and really apply where it is best applied
Sadly the Bible is not something that should be taken literally. It shouldn't be used as an example of anything these days. It shouldn't be mentioned when we are making laws. This goes for Any religious handbook as religion has no business being in the decision making for anything that affects everyone.
I mostly agree; I just mean for those who want to find meaning in it, its ironic that they cannot or will not just directly grasp some of the situations and ever apply it in reasonable way that everyone else can at least not be hurt by. Its not going away so we need to be able to engage with people with or without it.
With respect, I was in sales and one of the important concepts is taking objections off the table. I am not so naïve to believe they actually belive whatever they spout as their justification, it is exactly that (a justification). Kill/shoot first, justify later.
I think its more important to defrock the Emperor, and then move in. That's when they're weakest
Edit: give me 5 minutes with Christian and I can get them to concede the following inescapably:
Love others as you love yourself.*Even if you hate yourself, you should only give your best hospitality to people-based company/others/strangers, like a Good Samaritan. Let's see some of that Southern Hospitality!
While I applaud your attitude, I seriously doubt your ability to make long term changes in attitude with hard core evangelicals.
While they may even agree with the points you made. Once the conversation is over they will revert to their long held beliefs.
An alcoholic will often agree they need to stop drinking and may even do so for a day or two, but that seldom changes the long term reality.