The Abortion Debate
Added 2021-02-04 23:28:40 +0000 UTCA major supporter suggested I tackle the biblical perspective concerning the pro-life/pro-choice debate, and I think that's a good idea. That's what I've been piecing together this February. The way I want to handle this is not by participating in the debate itself, which usually revolves around when life begins versus the bodily autonomy of women. That debate is not fundamentally religious in nature (though it usually ends up that way). Notice that two atheists could be on opposite sides of the argument. For that reason, I wish to address the religious justifications.
In my experience, I have been able to get "pro-life" religious people to defend abortion - and even the killing of infants - just by using the bible, because they consider such actions justifiable if they were sanctioned by God. The problem, as we know, is that not only doesn't that make such actions necessarily justifiable, but it's more likely that such actions were claimed to be in the name of God, but not actually sanctioned by a god of any sort. These were mere people, killing babies, pregnant women, and doing abortions, and then using God to justify it. This opens the door to justify anything, as long as your reasoning is religious in nature.
So, I find that a good way to attack the religious argument is to show how the bible doesn't actually support it. They're misapplying their own religion, often pointing to flowery poetic verses out of context, that don't even apply to them, but to a particular prophet, like Jeremiah. I've included a list of some of the verses I plan to use in the video so far.
PS I'm having trouble deciding the format of this one. I've written most of a script that involves Jeffery, and is largely comical. I noticed, however, that it became less and less funny as the script continued with the seriousness of these verses. Do you think I should approach this from a serious angle to begin with and eschew the comedy aspect altogether? Does the comedy help spread the message, or cause the message to not be taken seriously? That's my current dilemma.
