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Trump’s New Press Secretary Supports the Death Penalty for Abortion Patients
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So their response to somebody committing (in their mind) a sin (because that's the only reason they would be pissed off in the first place) according to their hoohaw religion is to... commit more sin?
Fucking hell on earth man. Fucking hell
They do not respond to this logic. The hypocrisy is the point and they consider this hypocrisy good. If you kill, you're a murderer, have rejected the Lord, and deserve death. Do not waste your breath trying to explain the ethics of the death penalty to someone who supports it because of sheer bloodlust.
If you ask, "What if an innocent person is inadvertently found guilty, executed, and then later exonerated?", that will not register to them as a valid concern. They think it's worth it and you are wasting your breath by asking. They believe in a God who ordained a commandment against killing, while also commanding genocide. They think the Creator of the Universe and therefore reality is just like that. It can't be wrong. By definition.
I wonder if they would respond to the logic that they are playing god. They think it's fine to do God's job for him, for them to judge and mete out his punishment in this life, far before the real "judgement day." That's awfully presumptuous, considering that's God's job and the Bible even says "leave it to me, do not attempt."
"Death to all those who oppose my worldview, because they are a threat and must certainly view US as a threat to THEIR worldview" - the problem with multiple fundamentally different worldviews existing
This is a topic in philosophy. You define what's moral and immoral, and then you realize that sometimes your moral code must be broken for exceptions. Here's an example:
Killing is immoral.
Gay is immoral.
Killing gay is therefore good. Why? Because my religion says gay is immoral and I want to get the good ending (afterlife).
Which is why religious people are all fucking scary to us queers, because we know that fundamentally they're playing by different rules. Even the "good ones"are still playing by the same rulebook, and since they all pick and choose what rules they follow and when... There really isn't a social contract that we can trust anymore.
Which puts us atheists in a weird place where we have to just have faith that we won't be fucked over or murdered by some messed up person. And that faith is now non-existent because it has no basis in reason anymore because of this exact shit. There's more pattern recognition in having faith that BAD stuff happens because of religious people. Therefore, religious people are bad people. Yes I know there's nuance, but that collective cognitive system is stressed trying to exist in this shitty society where about half of all voting adults want any and all bad endings for me and anybody that helps me in any way or anybody like me or anybody that remotely agrees with me.