1.20.2003

Purely Misguided Religious Lefto-Freak Monkey Jacking Hate Mongers

This started out as a fairly reasoned post about pro-lifers and the lengths they go to attempt to legislate their beliefs on others. Not just change minds but to make it ILLEGAL to make up your own mind about abortion. They want to put their dirty, slimey GOD paws all over your body and tell you what you can and cannot do with it.
A couple of sites that popped up right quick from Google.
Life Decisions International is a dirty organization dedicated to nothing more than mucking around with Planned Parenthood's agendas because THEY (the LDI MORONS) know better what's right for other people.

March for Life Fund site which has a nice opening statement that goes like this "The MARCH FOR LIFE is the collective effort of grassroots prolife Americans to assure that our laws protect the right to life of each human being. An important step is adoption of a Mandatory HUMAN LIFE AMENDMENT to the Constitution of the United States. Such an amendment would require that individuals and society provide protection for the right to life of each human being in existence at fertilization."

Which means, that instant of conception when the sperm breaks the egg's barrier and gets in there and life technically begins, that zygote, embyro or whatever, has as much right to live as you or I do. And guess what? That's utterly fucking insane. The right to life of every human being, HUMAN BEING, not fertilized egg, not zygote, embryonic wanna-be or whatever it is at that point.

The site goes on to ramble on and on about the sanctity of life and how God wants things to be and this and that. Neverminding that fact that not one of these self-proclaimed pro-life vigilantes has actually ever had a conversation with God (drunken stupors aside although I'll have to consult my manual about lightning striking a pedophilic priest which could be argued as a divine intervention). God is a construct of the human mind in an effort to explain the world's mysteries before we had the capacity to explain it for ourselves.

God may or may not exist but he/she/it definitely does give the first damn about any of you (I KNOW whatever God is doesn't care about me, athiests are self directed towards afterlife potentials, thanks, we purchase our tickets ourselves). And using God's words (which don't exist) as a fundamental tenet of your reasoning to pro-life makes about as much sense as this tiny example I'm about to show. I think that, because the sky is blue and the trees are green that I've been told to kill anyone who doesn't think cats are the most wonderful creatures anywhere. Neverminding that some people hate cats, they must be wrong because the sky's blue and the trees are green.

One cannot be used as proof for the other, they are totally unrelated and unrelatable.

Religion and religiousness isn't, of its own self, a bad thing but when there is NO seperation of Church and State (as mandated by our forefathers who's words ARE real) then we have a government acting against its own tenets. Bush is breaking the fundamental laws of this country (and I'm not even touching on the pending Oil War) by making sure the Pro-Life (which is really the Anti-Choice party) groups are well, well funded while the Planned Parenthood's of the world are struggling mightily to stay in business.

People, you can choose to believe whatever you want (within boundaries of good taste and legality) but that does not mean that you have the right to try and FORCE me into your narrowly defined world view. That would mean I have to agree with the filth that spews out of whores like Pat Robertson's mouth when he's a disgusting kid toucher off camera. Even if that is how I feel about him (and its not really) I still have no right to try and stop him from speaking. He has as much right to free speech as I do no matter how errant and deviatory his message. Believe in whatever God, gods or dogs you like but don't think for an instant that your beliefs are any more important or right than my own.

And don't even consider trying to convert me. Your attempt to convert means that I am, logically, empowered to try and deconvert you and believe me, my powers of argument and persuasion are far, far greater than your own. My beliefs are based on tangible fact and scientific process whereas yours are based on sentimental opinion generated by people who didn't understand that thunder is an explainable reaction to natural events.

By the way, when I refer to you and yours, I'm not specifically talking about each reader as many share my general belief structure, I'm referring to the body of religions that espouse truth while their messengers sodomize their wards and embezzle funds. So take offense or not, I really don't care all that much.

And, if you are capable of a dispassionate conversation about religion then please, by all means, open up a discourse with me. I'm open to new views and thoughts. But don't work me for a conversion, I'll convert you right out of your beliefs and not even try. Just a warning not to tread where your beliefs skate on the thin ice of opinions held by sentiment and not by verifiable fact. I've been down this path many times and am unfazed by illogical conclusions based on premises only those who are already believers can hold.

Basic symbolic logic tells us that the answer cannot be used as proof to arrive at that answer. God cannot exist to prove that God exists, sorry, that's not logically possible so you'll have to work a little harder than that. But bring it on. I like a good argument as much as the next guy.

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