Abortion is more popular among atheists because people don't have the time and don't wish to miss the games of life. The religious don't see this as a sacrifice of their personal gratification, because there is plenty of time for that in paradise. They don't have the same philosophical cancer called death.
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Putting aside the abortion rubric, "pie in the sky" hardly justifies gloom on the ground. Allow for pie in both places.
(And with the rubric, where does this conceit of frivolous abortion come from, exactly?)
"because there is plenty of time for that in paradise. They don't have the same philosophical cancer called death.
So you're obsessed with what happens when you die, but don't have a philosophical cancer of death.
Uh huh.
...and yet...
Source
More than seven in 10 U.S. women obtaining an abortion report a religious affiliation (37% protestant, 28% Catholic and 7% other), and 25% attend religious services at least once a month.[38] The abortion rate for protestant women is 15 per 1,000 women, while Catholic women have a slightly higher rate, 22 per 1,000.[32]
Abortion, you dimwitted wishing well, is not and has never been "popular". The birthing of excessive numbers of children, however, is currently fashionable among those who want to prove how "religiously" they practice the missionary position.
I have nothing to say about this smarmy belief in the ability to judge the motivations of others, except that I think I smell something nasty on your heel.
PS: I don't wish you any particular harm, either.
Plenty of time for personal gratification in heaven? You mean like wine-tasting classes, amusement parks, and street orgies?
Ah, no, your time will be spent in eternal glorification of god. It'll be like being in church forever! Doesn't that sound great?
No, you merely don't realize that you have it. You're like the person that feels the lump, thinks nothing of it and then dies three weeks later. Just because you're too stupid to see what's right in front of you doesn't mean that it's not there.
EDIT: Actually let me amend that. In this age you don't get off as merely ignoring one sign. You're more like the person who is shown in every way that they have cancer and yet refuses to seek any sort of treatment, going so far as to even attack the very idea of treatment. You're not merely ignorant. You're a full-on anti-vaxxer.
The religious don't see this as a sacrifice of their personal gratification, because there is plenty of time for that in paradise. They don't have the same philosophical cancer called death.
Here's where we have the atheist version of Pascal's Wager, where if you miss the games of life and there's no afterlife, well, you wasted them. If you play the games of life and there's no afterlife, great. But maybe there is an afterlife. Well, if your God is the Kim Jong-un type you people seem to make him out to be, I sure as hell don't want to spend eternity there.
“Abortion is more popular among atheists”
“because people don't have the time and don't wish to miss the games of life.”
"The religious don't see this as a sacrifice of their personal gratification, because there is plenty of time for that in paradise. They don't have the same philosophical cancer called death.”
Frivolous "atheist" scapegoating and libel.
It's not a question of atheism or not, but of education, and the inverse of what the poster claims. There's less incidence of unwanted pregnancy with education and in an environment of respect, so also less recourse to abortion. This also appears to include the denial that many who have recourse to it also do it in secret, especially in settings where it's demonized. This also increases the likelyhood of harm and death. So does underage pregnancy.
Consult reliable sources of information and statistics, not deceptive motivated tracts intended to demonize the world, exploit people and subjugate women.
Just like that falsehood, the rest of the post also is untenable. Making your actual life miserable while hoping for a better hypothetical life after? It sounds like being a victim of exploitation for the profit of a cult leader.
What was this doing on science forums? Misconstruing knowledge as atheism for the promotion of ignorance? War on science?
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