The Bible IMPLIES That Abortion Should Be Illegal

Riiight, I'm evading, but you're - "I won't reply to this until you explain how atheists choosing their ethics is anything but arbitrary."

And I just specifically delineated "Well, atheists' are based off of empathy, rationality, evidence, and wide agreement."  And you protested that we don't have basic wide empathy agreement, and that I need to provide written documentation with civilization sitting right on your head. 

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hair's breadth difference

But it wasn't.  What it actually is, is you spin-out evading again howling about things with no pertinence.  He already reiterated what was obvious from the abortion conversation that "fully-developed human" did not exclude "newborn" nor "child".  You on the other hand persisted with "adult" foo him when you very begrudgingly emitted that it the morality under discussion was completely irrelevant to your squawk even if you could ram your purposeful persistent misinterpretation.

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What's your thing? Making strange people fall in love with you?

Man, when you crater, you crater hard.   And why in the world would you use your family in your depravity eruptions on a discussion board. 

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Babble, babble toil and trabble.

lol, crossing the streams.

Why?

Because i just schooled you in your politics thread...Again?

You and cash should get a cake together united 

EDIT: I know what it feels like to be angry. i know i was furious when Russia banned JW's for no reason although I expected some people on here to be in agreement with the decision. You know what helped me? Counting to 10

Gee, Christians really shouldn't do this: 
That must certainly mean thinking for themselves under the vast array of different circumstances of life.  Oh no! That is dangerous thinking.  That way madness, excommunication and straight to hell, 'do not pass go'... lies!

We atheists wouldn't do that! Sheesh no!  We base our ethics on what is fair egalitarian empathetic rational pragmatic kind intelligent apposite knowledgeable appropriate reasonable and sensible.

We don't force women to carry to term, malformed babies who will die straight away, we don't force people to have more children than they can afford or get AIDS, we don't vilify homosexuals and minorities or people of 'other' religions, races and ethnicities, we are not condoning and covering up systemic child abuse, we are not wanting laws changed to suit our bigoted agendas.............

I only say “wannabe” because I haven’t been published. I think I’ve just studied/read poetry into a paralytic state; the anxiety of influence, and all that nonsense I say I don’t buy into (but secretly kinda do). It just seems inevitable that no matter what I write I go back to in a few weeks/months and have a revulsive, “destroy it with fire,” reaction to it; but I’d rather be overly critical than a modern William McGonagall. It’s actually much cooler that you just get to write lyrics. WH Auden once opined that the challenge with writing words for music was in keeping it simple enough so that the music could express all the emotions that the words didn’t betray themselves, while in poetry you have to make words alone do all the work. I always thought that was an interesting take and a keen insight into what made a lyricist like Bob Dylan so great even when his lyrics don’t always read like great poetry on the page, but seem really deep when played/sung.

Since we’re on the subject of the power of words, here’s one of the few poems I’ve written on the subject:

I’ve heard the world was made with just a word.
I’ll make one too. I raise my eyes to look:
From here the fallen world is like a bird.

That can’t be right. Things that far off get blurred.
I hear her singing by the babbling brook.
I’ve heard that love is made with just a word.

The goddess speaks to me. Her words are slurred,
But music pierces like a fishing hook.
From there a nightingale, like any bird,

Bursts from the fiery tree. The sleeping herd
Waken and trample down the flames. I’m shook.
I’ve heard that hate is made with just a word.

It takes an instance to rebel, a third
Of heaven’s host to land in burning nooks.
From here the fallen man is like a bird.

I dive into the fire to forge a sword
From nadir’s grain; a phoneme’s all it took.
I’ve heard a poem’s made with just some words.
From here the phoenix rises like a bird.

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Since we were discussing poker, I also wrote a (slightly defective!) sestina called Texas Hold’em if you’d like to read it.

I said “ninja’d” because I felt he’d basically said the same thing I did in my reply just above his, only more concisely.

That's twice now you've called me a liar. And I still forgive you - and your 'ethics'.

Oh, you mean everybody agrees on the golden rule?  The one found in the scriptures?