my new blog site on social issues with a new post!

The site is called Social Debate (link at bottom of post). I will be talking about things like abortion, gun-rights, the media, politics, etc. The first real post on the site is about the topic of abortion, and why I view it as being murder. Check it out: abortion is murder.

http://socialdebate.blogspot.com/

I've posted many blogs on social issues (other than religion) on the atheist site, but I feel like it may be more enjoyable to follow my more focused/organised sites. Links to my other blogs are on the right side, check em' out. I'm also going to be  streamlining this website as well. 

Abortion: Why It Is Murder!

Strong enough title? I am not exaggerating when I use the word 'murder', abortion is murder. What is killed in the women is a very young, very dependent, human-life. It cannot be denied that an unborn baby, regardless of how young it is, is human-life.

When that life is destroyed out of selfish interests, the mother will try to dehumanize the life that she destroyed (so that her murderous act isn't perceived as such).  She will tell herself: "well, it had no soul, and doesn't look very human". First of all, being that we don't know what a soul/consciousness is, we cannot know when a human has it—all we know is that humans do have it, not when they don't (memory =/= consciousness). Regardless if the unborn baby has it or not, that does not remove the fact that it is irrelevant; the human-life would, in the very near future, have it regardless. Does this mean that if human-life is not consciously aware, that it is okay to do whatever you want with it?

Let's say a women is unconscious, and a guy rapes her. Would this be morally acceptable (assuming she truly wasn't conscious at the time)? All of the pro-lifers (I think) would claim that to be highly immoral and disgusting! But the woman that was raped was not consciously aware of anything at the time. Of course, later down the road, when she wakes up, she will be horrified by what has happened to her body (unborn babies never have the chance to wake up).

Just because something is legal, does not mean it is morally justifiable. During WW2 it was legal to kill Jews, does that mean that killing Jews in Germany during that time period was okay in a moral sense? Absolutely not! Now, obviously pro-lifers are not Nazis, but they seem to have a similar moral rational.

Just because a human life exist within a mother, does not give the mother the right to kill it because it is inconvenient. Actions have consequences, and sex, like all actions, has certain consequences. For the people that engage in risky sexual behavior, they know the risk, and should have to live with the result. If the mother does not want to raise the child, she can put it up for adoption, but she has no right to commit murder!

There is nothing more innocent than an unborn baby. 

First Post: Introduction

This blog will focus on social issues (abortion, gun-rights, politics, media, etc.). My main blog is: www.atheistperspective.net; I have made many politically oriented posts on that site, but I feel it may be more useful to readers if I were to make my views on social issues more organised/condensed. While religion is a big issue in society, I'm probably going to put my religion-posts on my atheist site, but I suppose time will tell. 

My views on social issues are very different from most people. While I am a secularist, I am also pro-life, pro-gun rights etc. I am socially conservative on certain issues, but liberal on many others. I am a snowflake, and I hope you enjoy following the site, whether you agree or not (funner if you don't agree), I want to see some good/productive discussion.  

Ricky Gervais Golden Globes 2011

"Thank you to God, for making me an atheist"

Gotta love Ricky Gervais.

VenomFangX: Christianity and depression

VenomFangX is not allowing mean comments on this video, unfortunately for him, he didn't disable embedding.

Emotional reasoning is a big cause of depression and anxiety. It is his pessimism and fixation on his "feelings" that are causing his problems.

He believes "if I feel bad, things must be bad". He has a confirmation-bias that his life sucks, he ignores the positive, and focuses on the negative.

Try thinking of the most depressing/anxiety provoking thing possible, if done properly, you will feel depressed/anxious.

If this kid wants to change the way he feels, he must change the way he thinks.

Also, his faith in God must not be that good, because if it was he would probably not be depressed. Believing you have the creator of the universe on your side should be an idea that would make anyone happy. Deep down I bet he has lost his faith, but doesn't want to admit it openly.

Would you kill your own child if God ordered you to? (The Atheist Experience #653)

Thank God there is no God. The good thing about atheism is that it is easier to pick out the crazies, the religious have to compartmentalize the difference between a prophet (Abraham, for example), and people with mental disorders. As an atheist, a person who quacks like a duck, and walks like a duck, is a f**king nut (and not inspired by God). Atheism makes things easier to understand. Religion oftentimes confuses the divine with the deluded, with false theories with supernatural phenomena. Atheism is as clear as a logic, religion is as foggy as faith.

ForaTv -- "Celebrity Tabloids and the Evolution of Gossip "

Gossip is viewed as being immoral (typically that is) because it normally is. Gossip often has a bullying nature in the context of celebrities. I however have a hard time sympathizing with a millionaire. I guess what is annoying are the dumb women that think they are something special because they know some embarrassing fact about another individual, and spread it around for their own social gain.