“I’m not an incubator and only I have a say about what happens to my body, ok? That’s the point, women can’t be enslaved for nine months.”

Also, traditionally, the Catholic Church didn’t consider the fetus alive or abortion a sin until quickening. This whole “life begins at conception” thing is, iirc, a 20th-century invention.

I deeply respect that you and your partner have chosen not to have children for reasons that benefit the entire human race. Thank you for that utterly selfless decision.

I really think the older my family gets, the less uptight they are about stupid/little things. I know that’s the case with my parents. Their attitudes (Grandfather included) seem to have become more relaxed, less openly judgemental. (Probably just as judgemental, only he keeps it to himself more often xD)

I have the same background: baptized to appease the family, never did anything religious. I once tagged along with a friend to Sunday school out of curiosity and got in trouble for laughing at something the teacher said. Turns out she was completely serious about what ever it was she was talking about, I thought she…

Literature about make believe is still just make believe. It's just fancier than Sunday school coloring books.

The protestant pastor that baptised me was really relaxed. He used to be a catholic pastor, but converted because he fell in love with a woman and wanted to marry her.

We have an old family bible with famous depictions of bible scenes. There the garden of Eden is full of unicorns and rainbows.

My maternal Grandfather & 2 Uncles are Protestant pastors. I never enjoyed Church, & always tried to make excuses to avoid it. (Thankfully my Mom stopped going so I didn’t have to unless staying with family.) I always caused problems in Sunday school because I’d dissect the bible stories. I made the point that we…

That reminds me of a funny thing that happened to me in Catholic school something like 25 years ago. It was third grade. We were being taught the creation myth (Adam and Eve and the garden). I was a typical young American boy, and thus interested in dinosaurs. When hearing about the garden that day, I remember asking…

So if a person discovers as a kid that they don’t believe in God, they aren’t allowed to retain that belief into adulthood? Do we make adult Christians study atheist literature to make sure the religious indoctrination...err...beliefs they acquired as children are legit?

My parents are atheists but we still had Christmas and Easter cause those holidays have fuck all to do with Christianity, besides the names. When I was like 9 I had a classmate tell me I shouldn’t have Christmas because I thought it was about Santa, presents, and cookies. When she started babbling about god and Jesus…

Yeah, because I recognize it. Luckily for me. Many people don’t recognize it and end up with personality disorders or repeating cycles of abuse. Think about it as game theory. You recognize it and adjust your behavior or you fail to recognize it and you just are. All choices are limited by knowledge... we were just…

We all base a significant amount of our personality and ideology off the the things that happen to us as a kid. Welcome to the lived experience of being human.

Oh, oh! Don’t forget the right to force those stories and characters on everyone you meet that you don’t feel lives up to your particular cherry-picked standards and “morals”! They want that one too!

And Donald Trump as the Republican Presidential candidate is the inevitable result of that strategy. Which either means we’ll never see another Republican win the election for President or we are sooooo screwed.

They know they can’t win. They just have to do something so they can tell their hardcore religious homophobe demographic that they tried. But they will soft pedal it as much as they can to not alienate the moderates.

That’s setting their kid up for a wicked eating disorder. Poor kid.

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