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today in 'they're at it again' baptist billboards
Even though I was late for an appointment yesterday and thus driving at some speed through the Square, I was still rolling by just slowly enough to note the new sign up outside the Baptist church. After a comfortably long time just posting up bible verses or exhorting passersby to develop a relationship with God, they eventually decided to take out their little stick of self-righteousness and take a whap at the town's beehive of liberal sentiment. Because they just can't leave well enough alone.
"Save the whales,
Hug the trees,
Abort the children?"
My eyes rolled so hard when I saw it that I almost veered out of my lane. Must we go through this again, people? Apparently we must. Children are not aborted; pregnancies are aborted. And anyway, at that stage of development, they're hardly children. "Embryo" or "fetus" would be more accurate, but no matter what you call it, it is definitely not worth more than the life of the person who is currently incubating it.
Also, last time I checked, many whale species were endangered, and trees were sort of necessary to transform carbon dioxide into oxygen so that us oxygen-breathing types can continue to respirate. Humans, on the other hand, are both overpopulated and a menace to every other life form on this planet. The fewer of us, the better.
And if any one wants to quote scripture at me about being fruitful, I'm just going to fire back with how that verse also mentions something about replenishing the earth, and I don't see humans doing a whole lot of that. Unless by "replenish", you mean squander or poison.
Now that they've shown a willingness to reenter the fray of social commentary with a quick bash at liberals, environmentalists and people who trust women to make their own reproductive decisions, what next? Another bash at women, or perhaps some homophobia?
Stay tuned.
"Save the whales,
Hug the trees,
Abort the children?"
My eyes rolled so hard when I saw it that I almost veered out of my lane. Must we go through this again, people? Apparently we must. Children are not aborted; pregnancies are aborted. And anyway, at that stage of development, they're hardly children. "Embryo" or "fetus" would be more accurate, but no matter what you call it, it is definitely not worth more than the life of the person who is currently incubating it.
Also, last time I checked, many whale species were endangered, and trees were sort of necessary to transform carbon dioxide into oxygen so that us oxygen-breathing types can continue to respirate. Humans, on the other hand, are both overpopulated and a menace to every other life form on this planet. The fewer of us, the better.
And if any one wants to quote scripture at me about being fruitful, I'm just going to fire back with how that verse also mentions something about replenishing the earth, and I don't see humans doing a whole lot of that. Unless by "replenish", you mean squander or poison.
Now that they've shown a willingness to reenter the fray of social commentary with a quick bash at liberals, environmentalists and people who trust women to make their own reproductive decisions, what next? Another bash at women, or perhaps some homophobia?
Stay tuned.