Hot Take... The US Ag Economy is booming. The "farm crisis" is a lie to harvest more payouts for favored industries.
Ag's profits are absorbed into land values. When land stops going up, then the Ag sector is struggling. #OATT
@detweiler_p@sola_chad@McJuggerNuggets Down Syndrome is not terminal.
Don't be so dramatic. I know the child's test came back with a test result that said Trisomy 21. The test for that has a false positive rate of 5%.
@AbortionChat You mean "abuse" and refuse to affirm?
I have to make sure because the term abuse has such a low standard that disagreeing with someone's opinion is called abuse by snowflakes.
@TheMuppetPastor Everyone who responds that way wants the parachute available to them in case they want to escape their moral responsibilities.
Too bad they don't have a big fish to swallow them up and deliver them to Ninevah.
This corn and soybean market is what the old-time traders would call a "paw chewing". The Speculator has his foot in a trap and is choosing to gnaw it off and take the loss rather than try to wait it out. Farmers and Processors are actively asking if this is the bottom. #OATT
Some of the anger I saw from pro-lifers responding to my tweets was essentially, "how dare you insinuate that pro-life people would abort a child with Down Syndrome!"
Guys, I've been in the care of souls business for 18 years now. And when you're in the care of souls business, something you see often is people who have been lifelong, devout Christians completely bail on the faith the SECOND holding to it requires them to suffer.
People who have spent decades faithfully coming to worship will leave forever the second their kids come out to them and tell them they have to choose between holding to the Bible and having a relationship with their kids. People who have always upheld what the church teaches about cohabitation immediately reject it the second their kids start shacking up.
People who lament the evils of divorce will get divorced the second they think they can come out of the situation better off, and they will give you every rationalization for why the words of Jesus don't apply to them. Ask your pastors about this. Dudes will leave their congregations, go to another down the street to another congregation with their mistress on their arm and act like nothing happened, utterly convinced that God supports them in doing so.
People who have thanked you for preaching against the idolatrous nature of youth sports that keeps kids out of church on Sundays will immediately embrace the idol when their kids have the opportunity to join a travel team. And so on.
And yes, when people who have boldly and faithfully stood against the evils of abortion find themselves carrying an unwanted child? They will often employ the very same vile rationalizations that they have condemned fifty trillion times before.
Do people who identify as pro-life have fewer abortion than pro-choicers? Of course. But with love and respect, you are absolutely clueless if you think that a notable percentage of women having abortion weren't pro-life identifying ladies until the moment their desire for abortion overpowered their faith and convinctions.
And, more to the point, if you are offended by this assertion because you know would never in a million billion years ever do this, you are clueless to the power of the sinful nature that lurks within you. If you think you would stand where they fell because you are more pious, more devout, more devoted, etc...well, pride comes before destruction.
@Nikos_17 This is a man wagering his life against the tank driver's sense of humanity. It is the core of the "Gandhi revolution," except Gandhi was holding back the more militant side of the movement; his threat wasn't by peaceful action, but that the potential violence was worse.
@TheMuppetPastor@colonelkurtz99 Its the act of killing, a debt against the person doing the act. The spiritual detriment is on the parents, not the baby.
@detweiler_p@sola_chad@McJuggerNuggets What disease did they have? And is it survivable? What is the standard here for killing your child? Missing a finger? Wrong sex? Born with diabetes? Cleft palate?