There are any number of health issues that can surface as women enter the bio reproductive stage of maturity.
Birth control is a tool that serves as an aid to many women on a number of fronts.
Denying millions of women access to it because folks don’t get science is whack.
I’ve seen women curled up on the floors, calling out of work, sitting in the clinic at school experiencing pain I could never imagine FOR A WEEK OUT OF EVERY MONTH.
And it’s different for every woman, because that’s how bodies work.
Maybe we should mind our business???
To be clear, I’m not some holier than thou feminist whose got it all figured out.
There are times where I automatically think “it can’t be THAT bad”
But that’s a goofy thought because: 1) I don’t have a uterus & will never know 2) people have died from doctors thinking that way
What is, and will continue to be, ignorant at best and inhumane at worst is that we would suggest to the word that our religion requires other people to suffer because we don’t understand how a friggen uterus works.
I fully affirm the idea that babies are born *in sin*. But they literally can’t do anything. They’re not active participants of the thing they’re born in.
Callin babies sinners is stupid.
And it’s kinda stupid to spend real time thinkin bout it. GO FEED THAT BABY!
Like… let’s think about this real quick.
Let’s say that infants are actually sinners.
Now what?
You gon bring that lil wobbly-necked soggy lil mound of slobber to repentance?
America (as we perceive of it), being a colonial project, did not have much of a positive identity of its own. They were *against* plenty of stuff (a negative identity). But not *for* anything particularly original.
They were mostly just lightly estranged Europeans. 2/18
Whatever colonists took from Native populations (that was not agrarian), they mostly tried to pass off as their own.
Appearing mostly European was sort of an ethic/virtue for the people who created what is now perceived as “America” 3/18
Aight, I’m waitin on the Comcast dude to finish installing the equipment in the office, so let’s have a conversation about “the wrath of God” and how penal substitution makes a mockery of it.
First things first: the wrath of God is real, and to be taken seriously. 1/8
HOWEVER!
The idea that the wrath of God is satiated by blood sacrifice (much less HUMAN sacrifice, which is patently against the testimony of God in the Hebrew Bible) is not soundly supported by the biblical texts.
Some dudes made that up centuries after the crucifixion. 2/8
The Hebrew prophet Hosea says that God desires mercy/steadfast love/loving kindness, and not sacrifice. Knowing God, rather than burnt offerings.
And Jesus repeats that very scripture in Matthew 9:13.
Does that sound like a God who needs to punish anyone to satiate wrath? 3/8