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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLMFAO
So Much better than saying STFU
— Dcmfox (@dcmfox.bsky.social) 2025-08-03T17:52:17.006Z
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dcmfox
Aug 2025
OP
Technically the Pharaoh did (assuming story isn't a fable) and there's the biblical concept of free will
WarGamer
Aug 2025
#1
So what's God's purpose and destiny for the millions of pregnancies that end in miscarriage every year?
tanyev
Aug 2025
#2
WarGamer
(18,257 posts)1. Technically the Pharaoh did (assuming story isn't a fable) and there's the biblical concept of free will
So the interviewers comment was kinda stupid.
LudwigPastorius
(14,258 posts)8. After Moses warned Pharaoh of the final plague,...
"the Lord hardened Pharaohs heart, and he did not let the people of Israel go out of his land."
So really, you can't blame Pharaoh for God killing all the firstborn during Passover. That's all on the Big Guy.
tanyev
(48,714 posts)2. So what's God's purpose and destiny for the millions of pregnancies that end in miscarriage every year?
Hmm?
WhiskeyGrinder
(26,468 posts)5. They will tell you it's to bring people closer to Jesus.
Ping Tung
(4,151 posts)3. A message from Mark Twain to the Christian lady.
"You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?"
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Dave in VA
(2,260 posts)4. I usually use the story of the flood
and ask why did god personally drown all the babies and pregnant women because of someone else's sin?
I have a friend who is a minister who calls people like this protester cafeteria christians. They go down the line and only choose the items that they like and ignore the others.
WhiskeyGrinder
(26,468 posts)6. The answer they've come up with now is that it's only up to God to decide who lives and dies, unless it's properly
adjudicated (as in the death penalty).
WhiskeyGrinder
(26,468 posts)7. More nimble abortion abolitionists would have said it's only up to God to decide who lives and dies. She's gotten lazy;
they usually have an answer for everything.