First and foremostly, I will say this,
I am not Catholic!
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It's a bit rich framing the issue as simply one of 'comfort'.
If you force a woman to give birth to an unwanted child, you run the serious risk of causing permanent psychological damage. How can think the issue for women is so flippantly as 'comfort', is your theory of mind that messed up? You fuck with woman's heads if you force them to go through with this shit against their will. You fuck up their bodies when abortion is criminalized and the psychological distress forces them to get an unsafe backyard operation.
There is still adoption. Would one go to the point of insanity merely over 9 months of big belly and 9 hours of pain? I'm sorry, I don't quite understand this train of logic. You'd need to explain in more depth to me.
I don't believe in a fascist state that criminalizes the actions of individuals to support a supposed 'society'. Tyranny of the majority, if 51% of society want to enslave the other 49%, is it just?
I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said "want" or "prefer". It was a poor word choice, "benefit" or words of that calibre would have been more appropriate. But anyway...
If the majority wants something does that make it beneficial for them? Look at most people with obesity problems they want lots of food and no exercise, and that doesn't help them in the slightest. Likewise, being served hand and foot doesn't really benefit anyone. Hard work does one wonders.
The only way you can provide 'benefit' to 'society' is by allowing individuals total freedom to pursue improving their own happiness by any route they desire, so long as they do not cause harm to another sapient, sentient being. This is the freedom prospective mothers deserve.
So what you're saying is that abortion is fine because life is all about ensuring the greatest amount of happiness to the greatest number of people? If this is the case, I'd like to forward you to a book called "Brave New World". It's a fascinating portrayal of what Huxley saw the future as.
“Oh isn’t it scary this new pope used to be a Nazi?” And you go, “Not when you look at their track record side by side.” The Nazi’s versus the Catholic church? The Nazi’s only lasted a dozen years and they got their ass handed to them in a high hat. The Catholic church has a far more prosperous and prestigious record of murder and torture and tyranny and oppression and nonsense. Not to mention the kid fucking, and they’re still around and more popular than ever. I’d be far more afraid to hear someone go, “You know that new Nazi…he used to be a pope!”
Just before I say anything regarding this, I have this to say again: I am not catholic. However, in the defense of catholics, you can't say that being catholic is bad because some catholics are child molesters or that the pope is evil because of the stuff that other popes have done or even what the current pope has done. Some atheists are child molesters. Does that mean that you shouldn't be an atheist? You can't judge a religion based on its followers really, only on the claims it makes and the validity of its claims. I'll say it again just to try and avoid a flame war,
I am not a catholic.
Also lol @ Gowin's law
You all deserved to be tried for crimes against humanity and rot in prison...
Likewise, you seem to have judged a group of people based on past experiences of other people. Just because some catholics are dodgy doesn't mean all are. I strongly doubt that most catholics are child pedophiles and ruin other peoples' lives. Some do, don't get me wrong, and it's really sad, but many more don't.
You have no right in any sense of the word to have an opinion on such a debate because the basis of your belief is completely fucking stupid and derived from indoctrination from childhood. You are brainwashed and would sooner see nooses hanging around homosexuals necks than see a woman make her own decision.
Peoples' opinions aren't the same as their parents. Children and their parents are different people and with different sets of values, beliefs and experiences.
I personally don't want gays to be hung, just like I don't want someone who stole a CD to be hung and frankly, Jesus came so that we don't have to do that sort of thing: stoning homosexuals and the like. Those who judge people for their homosexuality and claim to be Christians missed something really big somewhere along the line.
The pope is going to be put on trial for crimes against humanity, god willing.
Geoffrey Robertson
Love the irony, "god willing". Brilliant.
But it's the result of the trial that will mean something, not the fact that someone took him to court. However this could prove to be interesting none-the-less. I wonder how the catholic church will respond...
...Wait a second, I just noticed something. The article was written in April, do you have any more recent updates?
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Oh, and just so you all know, when I said "I love how you put Popes your that list. I mean come on, like they're the sole remaining human in a direct relationship with God." I wasn't endorsing the pope in any way shape or form. It seemed like I was misinterpreted