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Promethean

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9. Not necessarily.
Tue Jun 23, 2015, 05:05 PM
Jun 2015

I was confronted with the ethics of abortion after I had abandoned religion. My initial reaction was to be against it. It seemed like a no brainer to me, a potential person is being terminated. If there hadn't been people challenging me I doubt I would have analyzed it more and realized the necessity of pro-choice.

This is part of the reason I am anti-theist. Religion encourages people to hold set ideas that will not change. To them hypocrisy and maintaining their current flawed ideology is better than reflection and self improvement. The article shows a ton of prime examples of this. Hypocrites who get abortions but rationalize it as "mine is the only one that is O.K."

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