https://twitter.com/jaykelly26/status/1760336540885033057

  • SerLava [he/him]
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    7 months ago

    There's actually only one kind of scenario where someone WOULD have that right over you. Luckily it's absurd:

    If you could grab a random, fully living person off the street and jam em up in your womb, and somehow make them dependent on you to survive until you can be surgically detached, you would owe them that service 100%. And if someone else forced this on the both of you, you wouldn't owe them that. The vast majority of people would agree with this.

    This is why fundamentalist Christians have to believe that God pulls down souls into fertilized zygotes. It turns conception into a form of soul-based child abduction. If you completely skip past any thought about what the fetus is, and just assume with full conviction that it's equal to a person in every important way, then you literally arrive at the most common fundie anti abortion position... Full ban unless it's the mother's "fault".

    This is extremely convenient - the linchpin of their entire argument is literally magical thinking. Think of the first scenario, someone has done this to a person, they're stuck attached, and the abductor is complaining that their right to kill the abductee and go chillax are being trampled. That's what it sounds like to anti abortion religious fundies.

    This is why they must be opposed with raw force. They can't be reasoned out because they didn't reason themselves in.

    • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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      7 months ago

      Christian Nationalists full-on worship an evil deity, that intentionally and knowingly sends the souls of babies to Earth to get aborted and then be sent to Hell for not accepting Jesus as their Lord and Savior. It's not worth arguing with, y'know, evil worshiping death cultists.

      I found the Violinist Argument reasonable when I was a vaguely Christian teenager figuring my own beliefs out, though.