Apologetics and Evidence

 #shoutyourabortion = #shoutyourbulimianervosa Abortion is quite strange. One of the main arguments I hear for it is that it is good because the mother is unable to afford or to take care of the baby. But everyone knows about adoption. So what now? Another argument I hear is that women will have abortions if Roe v Wade is reversed in back alleys and such, so we shouldn’t reverse it. But when is it ok to murder a baby? Is it ok to murder a baby when women will be getting infections because they have unsterile environments for abortion? Seriously? Please tell me a better reason, a more convincing reason when killing babies is ok.  Something else I have to mention is that it seems that pro-choice adherents think that pro-lifers and abolitionists believe that the baby is of more value than the woman, but this is not the case. The idea is simple. Both the mother and the baby inside her are human, therefore they have the same value. I think of abortion like Bulimia Nervosa . W

I attended a Race Unity Day event put on by the Baha’i faith community at our local city park and had a conversation for about 3 hours with several followers of Baha’u’llah. One of them discussed things with me more than the others, but not at first. Since it was Race Unity Day for the Baha’i, we eventually started the conversation with the idea of whether or not world peace was the thing that mattered most in the world. Baha’i are extremely motivated to promote world peace. They think that the problem with the world is that it lacks unity, which would ultimately provide world peace. This first part of the conversation was with Doug (names changed for privacy). Doug implied that world peace mattered more than anything, but I reminded him of the problem of suicides where we live. I asked him if this is why they commit suicide, because of the lack of world peace. He reluctantly said, “Probably not,” but then I offered a better solution to what is wrong with the world, which is