I think it’s important to understand that to many of these people, it’s deeply religious. They believe that they are doing God’s work, and if they compromise on issues they believe are facilitated in scripture, they might end up in hell. So they choose martyrdom over cooperation. They’ll gladly sacrifice democracy if they feel like democracy is going against their interpretation of God’s word.
It’s the same reason peace in the Middle East is so difficult and seemingly unattainable. No one budges on their religion.
The wild thing is that scripture supports abortion and even demands it in some cases. These people don’t know their own scripture and they don’t care about scripture… they care about what the loud, dramatic white man told them on stage last Sunday. Nothing more, nothing less.
That’s why I specifically said “their interpretation” of scripture. It doesn’t really matter how other people interpret scripture. Politics among evangelical Christians is very much a “my way or the highway” kind of ideology.
Someone should remind them of separation of Church and State. If the US was supposed to be controlled by these peoples religious views the founding fathers would have put the Church in charge. I feel like we need some new legislation against these religious extremists from being eligible to run for an office if they can’t follow the rules. The second they go off on a “God wants…” tangent we should say “thank you for your service, you are relieved of duty” and we have another election.
I agree with them that babies’ lives are worth fighting for. The problem is, I don’t agree that a fetus is a baby. Alive? Sure, insomuch as a parasite is alive or cancer is alive. That we often colloquially call a fetus a baby doesn’t magically make it one.
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I think it’s important to understand that to many of these people, it’s deeply religious. They believe that they are doing God’s work, and if they compromise on issues they believe are facilitated in scripture, they might end up in hell. So they choose martyrdom over cooperation. They’ll gladly sacrifice democracy if they feel like democracy is going against their interpretation of God’s word.
It’s the same reason peace in the Middle East is so difficult and seemingly unattainable. No one budges on their religion.
The wild thing is that scripture supports abortion and even demands it in some cases. These people don’t know their own scripture and they don’t care about scripture… they care about what the loud, dramatic white man told them on stage last Sunday. Nothing more, nothing less.
That’s why I specifically said “their interpretation” of scripture. It doesn’t really matter how other people interpret scripture. Politics among evangelical Christians is very much a “my way or the highway” kind of ideology.
Someone should remind them of separation of Church and State. If the US was supposed to be controlled by these peoples religious views the founding fathers would have put the Church in charge. I feel like we need some new legislation against these religious extremists from being eligible to run for an office if they can’t follow the rules. The second they go off on a “God wants…” tangent we should say “thank you for your service, you are relieved of duty” and we have another election.
So many dogwhistles in that screed. “abortion industry”,“Wealthy”, “out-of-state”, “special interests”, “radical”, “abortion on demand”.
I understand how they think that way. Most Ohioans just support abortion but don’t shout it. And there’s a ton of people shouting opposition
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I agree with them that babies’ lives are worth fighting for. The problem is, I don’t agree that a fetus is a baby. Alive? Sure, insomuch as a parasite is alive or cancer is alive. That we often colloquially call a fetus a baby doesn’t magically make it one.