Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

The Ten Biggest Lies of My Lifetime
Rational Review ^ | September 27, 2009 | J. Neil Schulman

Posted on 09/27/2009 5:04:44 AM PDT by J. Neil Schulman

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 81-100101-120121-140 ... 181-184 next last
To: Cvengr
Technically, swinging an unbreathing baby’s body against a tree, vice one that is breathing, makes an enormous difference.

So, if the baby has an obstruction in his throat you can kill him?

The argument that life begins with breath hence abortion is acceptable is one of convenience not one of rigor or reverence.

101 posted on 09/27/2009 11:03:17 AM PDT by Tribune7 (I am Joe Wilson!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 88 | View Replies]

To: J. Neil Schulman

How about joining in on the forum you started, instead of posting and running?


102 posted on 09/27/2009 11:22:28 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (If Dick Cheney = Darth Vader, then Joe Biden = Dark Helmet)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Night Hides Not

I posted then went to bed. Woke up to find 100 messages in reply, which manage to debate the article nicely in my absence.


103 posted on 09/27/2009 11:32:31 AM PDT by J. Neil Schulman
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 102 | View Replies]

To: EternalVigilance

Every stillborn baby starts that way as well.


104 posted on 09/27/2009 11:42:05 AM PDT by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 98 | View Replies]

To: ROCKLOBSTER

Maybe Turkey (Ottoman Empire)>Armenian genocide? I think the O Empire was mostly Islamic. Also the french Revolution, except it has the stench of leftism also.
You are right that whenevr Leftism gets power the possibility of Democide is much, much higher.


105 posted on 09/27/2009 11:50:20 AM PDT by iopscusa (El Vaquero. (SC Lowcountry Cowboy))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 72 | View Replies]

To: Tribune7

I do not advocate abortion.

I also find the argument against abortion based upon human life beginning at conception to be erroneous, based upon Montanist Traducianism, rather than the Scriptural position of Creationism.

This is based upon an argument supporting creationism rather than traducianism. Jerome and Augustine favored the Creationist position. Tertullian as a Montanist favored traducianism, but he also didn’t think the soul was separate from the material, evolving from the idea that even the material didn’t exist.

Tertullian advanced some great doctrine (Trinitas, Hypostatic Union), but on the note of the soul being transferred mediately by third parties, instead of directly from God is not on track.


106 posted on 09/27/2009 12:37:40 PM PDT by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 101 | View Replies]

To: iopscusa
All historic tyranny has been leftist including monarchy and any other authoritarian format.

Right wing, freedom loving Americanism is pretty unique to the US and a few other nations that try to emulate us.

107 posted on 09/27/2009 12:41:27 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (RATs, nothing more than bald haired hippies.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 105 | View Replies]

To: J. Neil Schulman
Regarding your statement on abortion, I have two questions for you concerning the unborn child:

1. If it isn't human, what is it?

2. If it isn't alive, what is it?

And before we get sidetracked into a fruitless discussion of soul, I'd like to point out that those two questions were asked by a prominent atheist who came to his own inescapable and rather uncomfortable (to him) conclusion about abortion. You must either redefine "murder" as something other than the taking of a human life or you must concede the point.

108 posted on 09/27/2009 12:56:12 PM PDT by Billthedrill
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Billthedrill
2. If it isn't alive, what is it?

Inconvenient.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

109 posted on 09/27/2009 1:00:03 PM PDT by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 108 | View Replies]

To: J. Neil Schulman

Regarding your statement about when a fetus is a person (based upon your religious beliefs regarding souls) does this mean that the atheists among us have freedom to murder anyone at all since they don’t believe in the concept of a soul?


110 posted on 09/27/2009 1:01:26 PM PDT by carmody
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: carmody

Everyone has the freedom to commit murder, whether they are atheist or theist, and to stand before God’s judgment afterward.


111 posted on 09/27/2009 1:19:02 PM PDT by J. Neil Schulman
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 110 | View Replies]

To: Billthedrill

Billthedrill wrote:

“Regarding your statement on abortion, I have two questions for you concerning the unborn child:

“1. If it isn’t human, what is it?”

You use the word “human” in your first question as an adjective. Using the word “human” as an adjective to modify other nouns, there are human beings, human artifacts, human events, human corpses. The “unborn child” in your question
is either a human embryo or a human fetus. Using the modifier “human” does not answer the question of whether terminating the growth of a human embryo or fetus is murder. That question requires additional information within a fully-defined context.

“2. If it isn’t alive, what is it?”

Being alive is a necessary but not sufficient condition to being a creature endowed by its Creator with human unalienable rights.

By the way, my argument that the statement “Abortion is murder” is a lie means that those who argue that “all abortions are murders” is a lie. I have not argued, nor have I eliminated the possibility, that some abortions — such as the termination of a fully-formed viable fetus — may constitute a homicide.

JNS


112 posted on 09/27/2009 1:36:27 PM PDT by J. Neil Schulman
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 108 | View Replies]

To: Mr. Lucky

I posted it first as plaintext and it posted too small for me to read without oversizing the screen text of everything else. I increased the type size to one comfortable to me and others who need reading glasses, so as not to require oversizing the screen text for everyone else.


113 posted on 09/27/2009 1:52:48 PM PDT by J. Neil Schulman
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Hardastarboard

Destroying the avenue by which a soul would have come into the world may well cause the ref to impose a penalty and hand the ball to the other team.


114 posted on 09/27/2009 1:57:07 PM PDT by J. Neil Schulman
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: marktwain

Thanks much! :-)


115 posted on 09/27/2009 1:58:06 PM PDT by J. Neil Schulman
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: Sherman Logan

Cordoning off a crime scene for collection of forensic evidence, and analysis of the collected evidence, could be conducted by any number of NGO job descriptions. Legal standards for chain-of-custody can exist in a market-based system the same way other technical standards exist in any number of industries.


116 posted on 09/27/2009 2:04:33 PM PDT by J. Neil Schulman
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: Repeal The 17th

Repeal The 17th wrote:

“Shilling for your book here on FR?”

It’s a free download.


117 posted on 09/27/2009 2:05:54 PM PDT by J. Neil Schulman
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: ROCKLOBSTER

ROCKLOBSTER wrote:

“Reason #1 why most Jews are RATs!”

That’s an acronym for “Refuting Arrogant Twits”?


118 posted on 09/27/2009 2:10:23 PM PDT by J. Neil Schulman
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: Tribune7

Thank you! :-)


119 posted on 09/27/2009 2:12:14 PM PDT by J. Neil Schulman
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies]

To: J. Neil Schulman; Admin Moderator

All I know is that I reviewed your posting history.
You signed up a few years ago to shill a book...
A year or so later you posted to shill another book...
6 months or so later you posted to shill another book...
No posts in between and no commentary in between.
It makes it look like you are using FR
as a resource to shill books.
Correct me if I am wrong.


120 posted on 09/27/2009 2:13:19 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (I AM JIM THOMPSON!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 117 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 81-100101-120121-140 ... 181-184 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson