Linkathon!

Bob Sweat says:

I read a book titled Bad Faith by Randall Balmer that gave an indication that the Roe v Wade decision was not an issue to the Evangelical Right at the beginning. Although I am opposed to abortion, it was an interesting read.

Nathan Priddis says:

Bob.
It’s quite true that the Evangelical world was not pro-life. It was a Catholic thing that Evangelicalism picked up on. If I recall correctly, it was not an organic Evangelical movement, but involved an intentional Catholic influence.

Prohibitions on terminating a pregnancy don’t seem to exist until the late 1800’s.

Em says:

Pro life? Of course! But what do you say to a woman raped or told by her OB that the pregnancy will leave her children without their mother?
Maybe all women of child baring years should have easy access to the morning after pill, preventing a fertilized egg from attaching to the womb? Tough questions indeed! ! !

Officerhoppy says:

If SCOTUS overturns Roe v Wade, regardless the morality of the issue, there will be blood flowing in the streets. Buildings will be burned and property damaged. You thought the George Floyd decision caused, chaos, just wait till the decision on this issue is affirmed. As Michael said, there is not reasonable discussion possible regarding this matter.

Em says:

Well… I wrote officerhoppy! – stupid spell correct
Apologizing

filistine says:

…and, of course, access to contraception/birth control.

Steve says:

If my stats are correct over 63 million babies have been aborted since 1973 under Roe vs. Wade in the US and probably over 120 million every year world wide. This is staggering and deeply profound and sad. There are no comparisons I’m aware of to this evil. The procedure of abortion is so gruesome that few will bother to contemplate the horror. However sadly, I seriously doubt the reversal of Roe vs Wade will make a difference in the U S in stopping abortion. There will always be states that will profit on the industry. But if there is a silver lining which I have doubts on, I feel that maybe just maybe the Supreme Court will set the record straight that Roe vs Wade was always wrongly decided and the rule of law instead of mob rule will be reestablished. It’s scary we have a white house that will encourage protesting at a justices home after an unethical and unthinkable leak. This kind of intimidation has no place in our society. God help us all.

Dread says:

VIRAL: Boom!

“Though a lab leak looks plausible, the truth is we don’t know for sure and may never know where COVID came from. But that doesn’t mitigate the real scandal exposed in this book, which is how authorities in America and around the world obscured people’s understanding of the issue out of cowardice and corruption.”

BOOM BOOM!!!

“But the book’s greatest revelation, and a major object of Chan and Ridley’s own concern, is the manifest corruption of China’s officials and our own. “Honest discussions among leaders and scientists appear to be happening increasingly on burner phones and in secure email channels,” write Chan and Ridley. Under political pressure or out of the simple human impulse to save face, our authorities have lied to us. When they were caught, they lashed out and feigned outrage.”

NUKED!!!

“When the COVID vaccine came out, many people sensed that they were being manipulated once again by officials who considered it their right to toy with facts. “When polls said only about half of all Americans would take a vaccine, I was saying herd immunity would take 70 to 75 percent [vaccination],” Fauci told the New York Times. “Then, when newer surveys said 60 percent or more would take it, I thought, ‘I can nudge this up a bit,’ so I went to 80, 85.” Those are the words of a philosopher king telling noble lies, not of a public servant reasoning with a free people.“

THANK YOU!!!

“Being deprived of reliable information and control over important decisions makes people feel edgy and aggrieved. It erodes their sense of agency, and leaves them vulnerable to anyone who claims, however dubiously, to tell them the real story. The antidote to this problem is not more disdain, more censorship, or more callous indifference to personal freedoms.“

Conspirator Dread

Nathan Priddis says:

If a Christian wants to ponder the existence of viruses..

A virus has no beneficial purpose. No reason for it’s existence. But it can’t be considered parasitic either.
A parasitic organism in theory, has a life function outside of it’s interaction with a host. A vitus has none.

To say viruses came into being at the Creation, is illogical. It would propose that God was flawed in his Creation. Corrupt.
The Scripture would seem to rule out any viral existence with the statement..” after it’s kind”.

A virus is a replicating data transmission device, just as all living creatures are first and foremost, self replicating data themselves. A tree or human did not come into existence at its physical appearance, but rather before it’s appearance, when it’s code was written.

A virus would appear to be a weapon, or a generic insertion tool. Someone designed the first virus, for their own purposes. This could not have been a human, and the purpose was not beneficial.

At this point, we are trained to mumble something about the Fall, and a fallen World thanks to Adam and Eve. If my dog farts, somehow it’s the Fall.

It’s simpler to say Fall..my butt. Someone in the distant past wanted to alter lifeforms, by altering data, for a deviant purposes.

Steve says:

Nathan, what you say about viruses I could probably say about bacteria at least when it comes to Adam and Eve before the fall. But it seems to me now post fall, bacteria have a very useful and necessary function in the microbiome. Of corse they also can be harmful. It seems similar to the fact when we were first created God made us as vegetarians but it wasn’t until Genesis 9 after Noah’s flood they were given meat to eat. I think viruses similar to bacteria have a useful function now and there is research going on how viruses are part of the microbiom. I believe they have discovered over 100,000 viruses that are part of the bicrobiome that may be necessary for the bacteria to thrive that we depend on in the bicrobiome. I don’t think this was our original design but somehow God in his providence uses viruses and bacteria together to sustain our life.