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  • SeaJ
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    271 year ago

    Ironic that he quoted the Bible since the Bible is okay with abortion.

    • @[email protected]
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      -51 year ago

      The Bible doesn’t really say anything about abortion. The most convincing thing I’ve seen is that it values the life of a mother over that a fetus, but it doesn’t say abortion is okay. Unless I’m missing something.

      Not that it matters what this book says, I just don’t think it helps at all to misrepresent it.

      • @[email protected]
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        211 year ago

        Numbers 5:11-22

        If your wife is unfaithful, she should go to the priest and get a concoction to abort the pregnancy conceived with another man.

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          It does not say or imply that at all. Maybe in some translations/adaptations/interpretations, but not in most of them, and there is no full consensus.

          • zarp86
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            211 year ago

            20 But if you have gone astray while married to your husband and you have made yourself impure by having sexual relations with a man other than your husband”— 21 here the priest is to put the woman under this curse—“may the Lord cause you to become a curse[b] among your people when he makes your womb miscarry and your abdomen swell. 22 May this water that brings a curse enter your body so that your abdomen swells or your womb miscarries.”

            It doesn’t imply that at all? Please feel free to let me know what this passage is really about.

              • @dvoraqs
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                61 year ago

                The punishment section of the Hebrew version suggests many interpretations where words are euphemisms for things related to abortions. Her thigh might refer to her sexual organs, the curse an abortificent, etc. I think those meanings still exist in other translations.

          • @TaterTurnipTulip
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            51 year ago

            It always strikes me as interesting that if the Bible truly was divinely inspired that there really should only be one translation and one interpretation. It should be incredibly clear and concise to everyone.

      • prole
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        21 year ago

        It literally gives you a recipe for one

          • prole
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            “effectively made up verse” LOL

            Ah ok, so are you the arbiter of which stories in the Bible are literal, and which aren’t? Because that story seemed very fucking literal.

            Anyway, this can’t be the first time you’ve encountered a contradiction in the text of your holy book (assuming you’ve even read it), so I’m sure you’ve already got some pretty effective ways of ignoring the cognitive dissonance inherent in your worldview… So go ahead and have fun with that I guess.

            • @[email protected]
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              this can’t be the first time you’ve encountered a contradiction in the text of your holy book

              lol. I’m not a Christian. You’re just exposing your lack of critical thinking by thinking that, because I don’t agree with you, I must be the exact opposite. My child, the world is not black and white.

              You’re projecting your struggle with cognitive dissonance onto me, make no mistake about it.