God Is Not Pro-Life
Currently, Americans are in a decisive debate over something that is generally none of their business and using an argument that not only lacks merit but is irrelevant to American law.
The great debate is about abortion, but it is also about bodily autonomy. The argument used by the anti abortionists is the fallacy that the god of the Bible is "pro life." Using biblical references found online, you can easily debunk that notion.
My first reference is the so-called "Great Flood" of the Bible. To be clear, this event never actually happened. There is no evidence of it happening. Secondly, the flood story is taken from an older story known as "Epic of Gilgamesh". This story likely a retelling of older flood stories from the time when the great glaciers began melting and caused sea levels to rise and coastal areas to flood.
This story was probably from the verbal histories of the flooding of the the Black Sea when it was a fresh water lake of much smaller size and volume. Rising sea levels in the Mediterranean Sea spilled through what is now the Bosporus Strait in Turkey. The daily flow of water was 200 times the flow of Niagara Falls and continued for almost a year. Seaside villages were certainly flooded and possibly many lives lost.
This brings us back to the myth of "The great flood" and the numbers of people murdered by an angry, petulant diety who created beings in (his/her/their/it's)* image and was dissatisfied with the results.
Now we're left with the admission that the god of the Bible willingly murdered almost every living human being by drowning them. This begs the question, how many fetuses were terminated?
It's impossible to date an event that never actually occurred. It's even harder to estimate the human population from an unknown time, but that doesn't keep scholars from guessing.
answersingenisis.org estimates 750,000,000, while petergoeman.com estimates 241,000,000, and rightingamerica.net claims that it had to be up to 4 BILLION, and outrageously, using convoluted math guesses, Tom Picket at ldolphin.org came up with 17 BILLION! The craziest estimate is from someone who laughably calls himself the "Bible science guy" biblescienceguy.wordpress.com . Using dubious math and estimates, he came up with a pre-flood estimated population of TEN TRILLION people on Earth.
Even in our highly mechanized, highly industrialized food production system, it is estimated that the planet could only support 10 billion people.
Even the most well thought out scientific estimates, population estimates would remain estimates as there is no way to know a definitive population number for any time in antiquity. That being said, the estimate by ourworldindata.org, puts the human population at the alleged time of Noah's Ark at about 4 million homo sapiens.
So for the sake of this argument, we will use the estimate of 4 million people as our baseline of how many fetuses were terminated by a "pro life" god.
Starting with 4 million, we can assume half the population was female. That leaves us with 2 million. Because of mortality rates from violence, disease, starvation, and childbirth, we can assume that women didn't live very long and that child bearing years started soon after puberty. Just to keep numbers round, we'll say that 1 million females were physically fit to carry a child to term. Again, for the sake of simplicity, we'll say that half the fit women were at various stages of pregnancy. That gives us an estimate of 500,000 unborn viable children at any given time.
An omniscient god would be fully aware of the number of unborn about to be condemned to death. This hardly sounds like a "pro-life" god.
This same methodology could be used wherever god murdered masses of people. Sodam and Gomorah come to mind.
Even in the case of Lott's wife. God turned her into a Pilar of salt? Was she pregnant. We'll say the odds were 50/50 that she was pregnant. If she was carrying a fetus, god would have cared less.
The argument that god is "pro-life" doesn't hold water.
* Gen 1:26 "Let us make man in our image, after our own likeness. KJV
The great debate is about abortion, but it is also about bodily autonomy. The argument used by the anti abortionists is the fallacy that the god of the Bible is "pro life." Using biblical references found online, you can easily debunk that notion.
My first reference is the so-called "Great Flood" of the Bible. To be clear, this event never actually happened. There is no evidence of it happening. Secondly, the flood story is taken from an older story known as "Epic of Gilgamesh". This story likely a retelling of older flood stories from the time when the great glaciers began melting and caused sea levels to rise and coastal areas to flood.
This story was probably from the verbal histories of the flooding of the the Black Sea when it was a fresh water lake of much smaller size and volume. Rising sea levels in the Mediterranean Sea spilled through what is now the Bosporus Strait in Turkey. The daily flow of water was 200 times the flow of Niagara Falls and continued for almost a year. Seaside villages were certainly flooded and possibly many lives lost.
This brings us back to the myth of "The great flood" and the numbers of people murdered by an angry, petulant diety who created beings in (his/her/their/it's)* image and was dissatisfied with the results.
Now we're left with the admission that the god of the Bible willingly murdered almost every living human being by drowning them. This begs the question, how many fetuses were terminated?
It's impossible to date an event that never actually occurred. It's even harder to estimate the human population from an unknown time, but that doesn't keep scholars from guessing.
answersingenisis.org estimates 750,000,000, while petergoeman.com estimates 241,000,000, and rightingamerica.net claims that it had to be up to 4 BILLION, and outrageously, using convoluted math guesses, Tom Picket at ldolphin.org came up with 17 BILLION! The craziest estimate is from someone who laughably calls himself the "Bible science guy" biblescienceguy.wordpress.com . Using dubious math and estimates, he came up with a pre-flood estimated population of TEN TRILLION people on Earth.
Even in our highly mechanized, highly industrialized food production system, it is estimated that the planet could only support 10 billion people.
Even the most well thought out scientific estimates, population estimates would remain estimates as there is no way to know a definitive population number for any time in antiquity. That being said, the estimate by ourworldindata.org, puts the human population at the alleged time of Noah's Ark at about 4 million homo sapiens.
So for the sake of this argument, we will use the estimate of 4 million people as our baseline of how many fetuses were terminated by a "pro life" god.
Starting with 4 million, we can assume half the population was female. That leaves us with 2 million. Because of mortality rates from violence, disease, starvation, and childbirth, we can assume that women didn't live very long and that child bearing years started soon after puberty. Just to keep numbers round, we'll say that 1 million females were physically fit to carry a child to term. Again, for the sake of simplicity, we'll say that half the fit women were at various stages of pregnancy. That gives us an estimate of 500,000 unborn viable children at any given time.
An omniscient god would be fully aware of the number of unborn about to be condemned to death. This hardly sounds like a "pro-life" god.
This same methodology could be used wherever god murdered masses of people. Sodam and Gomorah come to mind.
Even in the case of Lott's wife. God turned her into a Pilar of salt? Was she pregnant. We'll say the odds were 50/50 that she was pregnant. If she was carrying a fetus, god would have cared less.
The argument that god is "pro-life" doesn't hold water.
* Gen 1:26 "Let us make man in our image, after our own likeness. KJV
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