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ABORTION IS MURDER
Author: TriSec
Date: 04/01/2023 09:49:38
And so are school shootings; fight me.
Look, I know we’ve all written about this in turn this week, but I’m having difficulty wrapping my head around where these United States are today.
“Thou shalt not kill”. It’s the seventh commandment, from the book of Exodus. According to the many religious politicians in this country, it’s the most important of them all.
But isn’t that contrary to the First Amendment? After all, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; “
I don’t really know; “Thou Shalt Not Kill” is very clearly a biblical passage, right there in Exodus 20. Establishing that murder is illegal actually seems to me to be establishing a religious law.
But then again, most societies in the world have established that murder is wrong, whether or not they believe in the Judeo-Christian bible.
What I cannot understand is the abject indifference to killing when it occurs outside the womb. Abortion may be murder to some eyes, but at the end of the day it’s a medical procedure. It entirely depends on what your definition of “life” is.
Republicans and conservatives will go out of their way to defend that “life”, even though if it was separated from the host, those random cells would die with shocking rapidity. But once those cells reach full-term, no more thought is given to whether or not they survive.
Among those republicans and conservatives, there are many that believe that we Americans have a “God-Given Right” to bear arms. I did review those ten commandments when I was writing this blog, but I neglected to note where this was stated in the bible.
However, it was no less than Boston’s own John Adams that noted that “self-defense was “the primary canon in the law of nature.” An article from the website Politico notes,
So where do we go from here? With a school shooting nearly every week, we are clearly beyond the point of common sense.
I personally have said for many years that the Founding Fathers were not infallible; it is entirely possible that they made a mistake with the Second Amendment.
Honestly – some days I think that it is merely the luck of the draw that Javi made it to adulthood without any serious threat at his school. I cannot imagine that even my quiet neck of the woods is immune. But that’s already happened to me; two of my friends have been murdered by gun.
Is this what America is today?
Look, I know we’ve all written about this in turn this week, but I’m having difficulty wrapping my head around where these United States are today.
“Thou shalt not kill”. It’s the seventh commandment, from the book of Exodus. According to the many religious politicians in this country, it’s the most important of them all.
But isn’t that contrary to the First Amendment? After all, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; “
I don’t really know; “Thou Shalt Not Kill” is very clearly a biblical passage, right there in Exodus 20. Establishing that murder is illegal actually seems to me to be establishing a religious law.
But then again, most societies in the world have established that murder is wrong, whether or not they believe in the Judeo-Christian bible.
What I cannot understand is the abject indifference to killing when it occurs outside the womb. Abortion may be murder to some eyes, but at the end of the day it’s a medical procedure. It entirely depends on what your definition of “life” is.
Republicans and conservatives will go out of their way to defend that “life”, even though if it was separated from the host, those random cells would die with shocking rapidity. But once those cells reach full-term, no more thought is given to whether or not they survive.
Among those republicans and conservatives, there are many that believe that we Americans have a “God-Given Right” to bear arms. I did review those ten commandments when I was writing this blog, but I neglected to note where this was stated in the bible.
However, it was no less than Boston’s own John Adams that noted that “self-defense was “the primary canon in the law of nature.” An article from the website Politico notes,
“Owning a gun is an extension of this law of nature, and has been recognized as such for a very long time in Anglo-America. The right to bear arms had deep roots in England, and predated the Constitution on these shores. Pennsylvania guaranteed the right early on. In his draft of the Virginia Constitution in 1776, Thomas Jefferson wrote, “No freeman shall ever be debarred the use of arms.” (His language wasn’t adopted.)
It is out of this historical and jurisprudential soil that we got the Second Amendment. Guns would make it possible for Americans to defend themselves, and to defend their liberties.
So where do we go from here? With a school shooting nearly every week, we are clearly beyond the point of common sense.
I personally have said for many years that the Founding Fathers were not infallible; it is entirely possible that they made a mistake with the Second Amendment.
Honestly – some days I think that it is merely the luck of the draw that Javi made it to adulthood without any serious threat at his school. I cannot imagine that even my quiet neck of the woods is immune. But that’s already happened to me; two of my friends have been murdered by gun.
Is this what America is today?
