Wed Oct 24, 2012, 07:56 AM
DefenseLawyer (8,405 posts)
If pregnancy from rape is God's will
Isn't death from childbirth also God's will? Yet God's helper Richard Mourdock supports an exception for life of the mother. I guess sometimes we can ignore God and sometimes we can't. Maybe a theologian can explain how that works.
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| DefenseLawyer | Oct 2012 | OP | |
| geckosfeet | Oct 2012 | #1 | |
| DefenseLawyer | Oct 2012 | #3 | |
| geckosfeet | Oct 2012 | #6 | |
| DefenseLawyer | Oct 2012 | #10 | |
| geckosfeet | Oct 2012 | #17 | |
| DefenseLawyer | Oct 2012 | #19 | |
| geckosfeet | Oct 2012 | #21 | |
| tblue | Oct 2012 | #2 | |
| PeaceNikki | Oct 2012 | #4 | |
| ellenfl | Oct 2012 | #16 | |
| Angry Dragon | Oct 2012 | #5 | |
| Kindly Refrain | Oct 2012 | #7 | |
| kooljerk666 | Oct 2012 | #8 | |
| malaise | Oct 2012 | #9 | |
| MiniMe | Oct 2012 | #11 | |
| ejpoeta | Oct 2012 | #12 | |
| MadrasT | Oct 2012 | #13 | |
| Swede Atlanta | Oct 2012 | #14 | |
| DefenseLawyer | Oct 2012 | #15 | |
| Bucky | Oct 2012 | #18 | |
| napkinz | Oct 2012 | #20 |
Response to DefenseLawyer (Original post)
Wed Oct 24, 2012, 07:58 AM
geckosfeet (8,879 posts)
1. It's not. End of discussion.
Response to geckosfeet (Reply #1)
Wed Oct 24, 2012, 08:01 AM
DefenseLawyer (8,405 posts)
3. He says it is
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I'd like him to explain the difference.
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Response to DefenseLawyer (Reply #3)
Wed Oct 24, 2012, 08:17 AM
geckosfeet (8,879 posts)
6. Ok. You listen to him. Let me know how it works out.
Response to geckosfeet (Reply #6)
Wed Oct 24, 2012, 08:24 AM
DefenseLawyer (8,405 posts)
10. I think you are missing the point
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But thanks for your input.
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Response to DefenseLawyer (Reply #10)
Wed Oct 24, 2012, 06:16 PM
geckosfeet (8,879 posts)
17. If you say so. How's the gods will thing going?
Response to geckosfeet (Reply #17)
Wed Oct 24, 2012, 07:16 PM
DefenseLawyer (8,405 posts)
19. I don't believe in a god, so I wouldn't know.
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I wasn't advocating his position, genius, rather pointing out one of its obvious contradictions. Maybe abstract thought just isn't your strong suit.
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Response to DefenseLawyer (Reply #19)
Wed Oct 24, 2012, 09:52 PM
geckosfeet (8,879 posts)
21. No it certainly is not. I don't like listening to republican shitheads either.
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Last edited Wed Oct 24, 2012, 10:28 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1) Meaning - that Mourdock made his bed when spoke, and giving him any opportunity at explanation would only yield a variant of one or two things:
1. He would double down on it - which he did 2. He would claim it was taken out of context, his words were misinterpreted, he did not mean what you think you heard etc. etc. Offering these pos's a chance to recant, is imo, a futile effort. That's why I said originally said end of discussion. Because for me it was. He said it. He meant it. No need to humor the asshole any longer. |
Response to DefenseLawyer (Original post)
Wed Oct 24, 2012, 08:00 AM
tblue (14,119 posts)
2. Rape must be God's will too.
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Last edited Wed Oct 24, 2012, 08:02 AM USA/ET - Edit history (1) At least in cases where pregnancy occurs.
Egad! Why do these righties have such little regard for raie victims? |
Response to tblue (Reply #2)
Wed Oct 24, 2012, 08:02 AM
PeaceNikki (19,259 posts)
4. God is an evil asshole.
Response to DefenseLawyer (Original post)
Wed Oct 24, 2012, 08:03 AM
Angry Dragon (24,073 posts)
5. As long as most republicans are brain dead -- is it okay to stop feeding them??
Response to DefenseLawyer (Original post)
Wed Oct 24, 2012, 08:19 AM
Kindly Refrain (423 posts)
7. Abortion is also God's will
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as is nuclear war, famine and genocide. Why do people keep worshiping this sick twisted god?
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Response to DefenseLawyer (Original post)
Wed Oct 24, 2012, 08:23 AM
kooljerk666 (776 posts)
8. If God wants the baby.........
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and rape creates life & is gods will............
.....then the rapist is doing gods work & should not go to jail. I use this thread of reasoning on GOPs all the time. How would u like it if I rape your, mother,sister, daughter or wife get them pregnent if they get an abortion they go to prison or in south dakota GOPer are trying to execute women who get an abortion. And I get visitation & custody of the child created by god, he so loved that woman he had her raped, boy that is a loving god. killing abortion provider legal? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/15/south-dakota-abortion-bill_n_823326.html Jail 4 a miscarriage? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/23/antiabortion-georgia-lawm_n_827340.html
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Response to DefenseLawyer (Original post)
Wed Oct 24, 2012, 08:24 AM
malaise (107,012 posts)
9. Look using that ignorant moron Mourdock's logic
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every fugging thing is gawd's will. No one is responsible for a single crime or a bad decision. No wonder I have nothing to do with gawds or morons.
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Response to DefenseLawyer (Original post)
Wed Oct 24, 2012, 08:26 AM
MiniMe (13,699 posts)
11. Using Mourdock's logic, he is the Westboro Baptist Church
Response to DefenseLawyer (Original post)
Wed Oct 24, 2012, 08:27 AM
ejpoeta (8,705 posts)
12. then cancer is god's will too, right? yet we fight that.
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and diseases.... those are god's will.... so anything that happens is god's will, then why do we have hospitals? and vaccines? and heart transplants? and cancer treatment? because that is a bullshit argument that's why. why is it only what happens to women that is 'god's will'? that is bullshit.
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Response to DefenseLawyer (Original post)
Wed Oct 24, 2012, 08:34 AM
MadrasT (5,790 posts)
13. As soon as he can become impregnated...
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His opinion counts. And then it only counts about his pregnancy.
I am fucking sick of hearing men's fucking opinions about other people's pregnancies. |
Response to DefenseLawyer (Original post)
Wed Oct 24, 2012, 08:35 AM
Swede Atlanta (2,335 posts)
14. If everything is God's will then why do anything?
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If cancer is God's will then no more cancer research or treatment. If limp dick (aka erectile dysfunction) is God's will then no more Viagara or penis pumps. If starvation is God's will then no more planting and harvesting.
This can go on and on. |
Response to Swede Atlanta (Reply #14)
Wed Oct 24, 2012, 10:46 AM
DefenseLawyer (8,405 posts)
15. Which is exactly why this kind of talk scares the hell out of average people
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Anything. Absolutely anything can be justified as "God's will". But to me it's still fascinating that a guy like Mourdock bases his opposition to an abortion exception for rape on "God's will" yet he agrees there should be an exception for the life of the mother. I can't say for sure how his religion works, but I have to assume that the mother dying would also be God's will; but in that case we can ignore God and intervene. Why does he think it's God's call sometimes and his call in others? I'd really like to hear him explain that to a heathen like me.
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Response to Swede Atlanta (Reply #14)
Wed Oct 24, 2012, 06:19 PM
Bucky (41,684 posts)
18. God wanted you to ask that question.
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God wants you to help get out the vote in November
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Response to DefenseLawyer (Original post)
Wed Oct 24, 2012, 07:25 PM
napkinz (3,704 posts)
20. These are the same people, remember, who claimed 9/11
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was God's punishment for homosexuality, abortion, and a whole host of issues.
Mourdock is just the latest in a long line of Republican NUTCASES. |

