And it's usually empty...
[I believe I was referring to a devil's advocate meme on Pro-Life Libertarian. ]
The fact is that sbortion was forbidden in first-century Israel, and multiple Roman/Jewish historians confirm that. Now the Greeks and others had an ensoulment doctrine, with a stage hypothesis, e.g., the fetus went through lower (e.g., vegetative ) stage of development. The ensoulment tended to occur around viability (movement of the fetus). Be clear: whereas some Jews were influenced by Greek "science", nobody pretends abortion is not a rejection of God's gift of life.
[I believe this may have been a response to someone who asked me to elaborate on sources for the previous clip. I think I also added a link to the Wikipedia page on ensoulment.]
The Jews: book 5 of 'The Histories' by Cornelius Tacitus
ourcivilisation.com
Mark 10:13-16. But this OP is disingenuous in her presentist absurdities. The fact is that abortion was NOT an accepted practice in Jesus' lifetime in Israel (see below), and in fact explicit teachings against abortion appear in one of the earliest Christian texts, the Didache. Why? Because abortion and infanticide were practiced in ancient Rome and Greece. As Christianity spread into the Gentile world, it became an issue.
The first century historian Tacitus,The Jews, The Histories Book 5:5:
However, the Jews see to it that their numbers increase. It is a deadly sin to kill a born or unborn child.
https://www.ourcivilisation.com/smartboard/shop/tacitusc/histries/chap18.htm
[I believe this was in response to Gabbard's opponents on Syria, suggesting she was a tool for terrorists]
Well, it's not just that but we've been Al Qaeda's air force in Syria.
Mulvaney is a disingenuous spokesman on Trump's spending.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) July 28, 2019
First of all, no one put a gun to Trump's head to sign spending bills.
Second, Trump is responsible for doing away with hard-earned sequesters.
Third, Trump has refused to cut entitlements which account for 70% budget
Let's get this straight: you've got an issue with Scott not recusing himself on Defense Secretary, but you don't have issues on Dems voting on labor or environmental legislation?— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) July 28, 2019
Trump is the result of bad parenting. They sent him to military school, but he still ended up an asshole. Trump craves attention. Don't give him what he wants.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) July 29, 2019
Obama and Trump have aided and abetted Saudi war crimes in Yemen, although the murder of a journalist is horrible. Trump's attack on Cummings is a non sequitur. Trump is responsible for refugee maltreatment; Cummings is not responsible for local public policy failure.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) July 29, 2019
Are you referring to the kerfuffle, totally invented by Trump, that Mueller applied for his own former job in replacing Comey. The retard Trump is provably a liar. The law says that the FBI director can only serve 1 10-year term; Mueller wasn't eligible. #WeBelieveMueller— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) July 29, 2019
Before Trump "invented" the phrase "you're fired", employers could only suspend bad employees, #LostTrumpHistory— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) July 29, 2019
In his first term in office, Trump filed bankruptcy 6 times over the national debt. #LostTrumpHistory— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) July 29, 2019
During Southern crackdowns during the civil rights era, Trump praised the local police and mentioned there are good people on each side. #LostTrumpHistory— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) July 29, 2019
Trump would have been a First Responder at Ground Zero, but he had bone spurs.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) July 29, 2019
Our not-so-great plutocrat President hasn't exactly improved on Obama's performance since taking office. https://t.co/26fycrgTML— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) July 29, 2019
Congressman Cummings, I think you need to investigate public health issues at Trump properties. I think the President stays at a place in Florida with dozens of health issues. https://t.co/ybkAX8Zseu— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) July 30, 2019
"Non-partisan"? Bullshit! Do you think you're in Animal Farm where words take on opposite meaning?— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) July 30, 2019
Smearing the Majority Leader is McCarthyism.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) July 30, 2019
Technically speaking, Democrats are left-fascists, not socialists. But certainly Cherokee Lizzie's idea of outlawing private healthcare insurance is a socialist notion.
You're actually assuming the bill is as you say. It's an oxymoron.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) July 30, 2019
You never ran a city, bozo, and you never had a snowman's chance in hell of being elected mayor of NYC. Hypocritical bastards like you criticized Obama for doing nothing about it, while you stupidly admit this is happening on YOUR watch. What are your "solutions", asshole?— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) July 30, 2019
What is this hashtag about? Is Broadway recasting the Odd Couple? "Obama and Biden"— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) July 30, 2019
What is this hashtag about? How big a debt can they burden their grandchildren with? #DemDebate— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) July 30, 2019
White Virginia Dems wanted to know what it was like to wear blackface. #ItWasMerelyASuggestion— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) July 30, 2019
This is Soft Rock America. The Democrats need one thing to bribe American voters: https://t.co/rqJWjkiZQt— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) July 31, 2019
Just a reminder that Trump's use of military troops on the border violates the Posse Comitatus Act. So much for that pesky oath to faithfully execute laws. https://t.co/6evh1HwWHa— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) July 31, 2019
OK, let's review some basic Econ 101 for the illiterate. We've had a strong dollar, in part because the Fed has been trying normalize rates. The stronger dollar is bad for imports and foreign investment, and interest rates tend to vary inversely with profits.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) July 31, 2019
This is coming from a senator who tries to rationalize our being Al Qaeda's Air Force. Gabbard is one of the few to reject our interventionist madness which has spent trillions we don't have.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) August 1, 2019
The chickenhawk interventionists who have fruitlessly squandered trillions of dollars and thousands of lives intervening counterproductively in the Middle East and Gulf Region have the audacity to lecture Gabbard over their bogeyman Assad. "Assad"— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) August 1, 2019
Actually, the market tanked on Obama's first day in office, and your statistics are cherry-picking bullshit, ignoring the market bottomed out in March 2009. Obama's numbers are more like 73% over 8 years., and Trump's first year, better than Obama's, 31%https://t.co/X7pSRE8S00— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) August 2, 2019
Let's not forget that the Dow had dropped from over 14,000 in Oct. 2007 to under 8000 on Obama's inaugural and another 1500 to March. 2009, so over 50%, most on Bush's watch, so Obama was starting from a depressed start. Not to mention near 0% interest, the only POTUS with that.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) August 2, 2019
Actually, economic fascism was introduced under the FDR administration. Trump has actually done more from a deregulation standpoint than any POTUS since Carter.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) August 2, 2019
Most leftists, like you, are in a state of denial about socialism under Hitler, his anti-corporation populism, etc.
No, this is debunked nonsense. GOP plans gave more flexibility for states to define essential benefits and some private insurers could offer coverage outside the more regulated government marketplaces. https://t.co/x2rXciAB63— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) August 2, 2019
Are you TRYING to get Trump reelected? 99% of Trump supporters are not racists, and you only alienate independents and moderates Dems need to vote Trump out of office.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) August 2, 2019
When I went to high school pep rallies, we were entertained by cheerleaders with pom-poms. Let me know when Trump has cheerleaders. I might watch long enough for that segment. But I'm tired of Trump's same old same old shtick. BORING! #CincinnatiTrumpRally— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) August 2, 2019
Trump would star as Archie Bunker #IfItWasTheSeventies— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) August 2, 2019
Trump signed a bloated budget deal. He now owns the national debt.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) August 2, 2019
Disarming people, denying them the right the natural right to defend themselves, is morally reprehensible, you authoritarian bastard.. No, it's not a gun manufacturer's fault when people misuse their products. The overwhelming majority of guns is never involved in a crime.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) August 3, 2019
Here we go again.The morally self-superior Statists will blame everybody but the 21-year-old mass murderer in an attempt to impose a government monopoly of force and deny others of their natural right to self-defense. Politically exploiting tragedies: abominable "El Paso Walmart"— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) August 3, 2019
#NoKamalaDidNot engage in principled public service. Everything she does is based on self-serving political ambition.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) August 3, 2019
The mockery implied by this hashtag is abominable. There's very little we can do under these circumstances. We try to express our condolences with the victims and their families vs. pretend an atrocity never happened. #thoughtsandprayers— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) August 4, 2019
The right to self-defense is a natural right, and gun prohibitions, like other forms of government prohibitions, never work. The fact is that mass shootings draw so much attention is because they are so rare. You are far more likely to die in a car accident. "2nd amendment"— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) August 4, 2019
This hashtag response to the El Paso tragedy is the worst thing ever. There is a reason for the physician maxim: "First, do no harm." Desperation makes for bad public policy.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) August 4, 2019
"Do Something"
No, this is more of a hate crime than "domestic terrorism". True, the perpetrator is anti-immigrant, but patrons of the El Paso Walmart are Hispanic citizens and legal Mexican visitors. Domestic terrorism would be more like targeting a detention center. #DomesticTerrorism— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) August 4, 2019
I was born in Texas and graduated from a Texas high school and 3 universities. My high school was a few miles near the border, and I was a UTEP professor for a year (in fact, one of my Mexican students invited me to his graduation party). The El Paso tragedy is heartbreaking.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) August 4, 2019
You don't think you bear some moral responsibility for this atrocity, having begun your candidacy with an anti-Mexican rant? Your anti-immigrant rhetoric have motivated hate crimes like your supporters pissing on a sleeping Latino homeless man, beating him with a pipe--and this.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) August 4, 2019
I've asked out/dated multiple Latinas, and at least 3 nephews have dated and/or married Latinas. I graduated from a university in a SW San Antonio barrio. (One of my first dates was going to a taco stand off-campus.) My French-Canadian heritage & Latinos share Catholic roots.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) August 4, 2019
No, Trump is not responsible for the El Paso Walmart perpetrator's hate crime massacre. But his red meat populist rants against unauthorized Latino migration have set the wrong tone; he has not been an inspirational advocate of our distinctive melting-pot heritage.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) August 4, 2019
George Will makes a persuasive case that the American voter next year will vote for divided government, i.e., if the Senate were to flip Dem, they would likely retain Trump as a counter-balance; the more likely the Senate would hold GOP control, voters might flip the Presidency. https://t.co/ZxD2c8W6fo— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) August 4, 2019
I don't like the argument if we could only cut this government program here, we could increase that program. We should be talking eliminating the DoE and retiring the debt. I know Massie is mocking Sanders' hypocritical pandering for the teacher union vote.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) August 4, 2019
Massie should be pointing out that the public school monopoly is anti-competitive, union agreements often hobble things like merit or market-based pay, retention of younger, better teachers, never mind pay is only part of compensation (summer vacation, unfunded pensions).— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) August 4, 2019
Hell, no! First of all, the public school monopoly id s local/state responsibility, and there is no constitutional basis for federal involvement.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) August 4, 2019
Second, pay is not the proper criterion: it's compensation. This goes beyond fungible job security, long vacations, and pensions.
You are simply and corruptly pandering for the teacher union vote. Unlike other sectors of the market which respond to competition and are linked to productivity, we have literally multiplied education dollars (including teachers) for decades with no improvement in student scores— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) August 4, 2019
The public school system must be privatized; public monopolies are corrupt and anti-consumer. Not to mention you are here as elsewhere (e.g., Scandinavian social welfare systems) promoting unjustifiable public myths, e.g., teachers are "underpaid". https://t.co/WOB7dXOxlY— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) August 4, 2019
The anti-gun bigots want to quiet the critics who correctly point out:— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) August 4, 2019
- government prohibitions don't work
- despite hundreds of millions of firearms , the vast majority are not involved in violent crime
- the chances of being a violent crime victim negligible.
"Rick Santorum"
Does someone want to compare the murder statistics of black-on-black homicide in Chicago vs. "domestic white terrorism"? No what happened in El Paso was more of a hate crime against Latinos than a political one which would have targeted detention centers #DomesticWhiteTerrorism— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) August 4, 2019
There's a first time for everything, and for me, that's defending Tyson, who points out the probability of losing one's life to mass shooting is negligible to those from medical error or fatal car accidents. (I myself similarly pointed to auto accidents.) "Neil deGrasse Tyson"— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) August 4, 2019
No, Trump is not a "racist" or someone promoting "white supremacy" fringe elements. The fact is that Trump's red meat rhetoric is simply a manipulative tactic to attract political support. Trump has no political principles beyond his lust for political power. "Mulhavey"— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) August 4, 2019
There are people who actually miss the hell of the worst Presidency in modern memory. I miss Barry Obama like I miss adolescent acne. How does the Nobel Peace Prize winner sleep at night being morally responsible for kill lists and civilian deaths?— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) August 5, 2019
"Happy Birthday Mr. President"
Yeah, Barry Obama gets to celebrate another birthday, unlike the Yemen civilians under "ally" Saudi Arabian war crimes which started on Barry's watch. How does he sleep at night? He ran on being someone who objected to the Iraq invasion. "Happy Birthday Mr. President"— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) August 5, 2019
Once again, the market takes a hit over Trump's economically illiterate unprovoked, corrupt, protectionist trade wars. "The Dow"— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) August 5, 2019
Yeah, I'm going to take my talking points from some hypocritical Empty Suit who approved kill lists and supersized drone attacks, exacerbating civilian casualties. Without Obama's support, who would have bombed wedding parties in Yemen? #MyPresidenthttps://t.co/jAHa5suNkg— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) August 6, 2019
Well, to be honest, Toledo was the site of one of those airports we recaptured during the Revolutionary War, and Trump had been practicing his commemorative speech. #Trumpspeech— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) August 6, 2019
But I've heard the number of spitwads is down 37%. #sarcasm— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) August 6, 2019
I'm a NeverTrumper, but no time home to the San Antonio area is complete without Bill Miller's tasty fast-food BBQ, sides, and some of the best ice tea around. I don't care what the owner does with his income/wealth. If Cherokee Lizzie's donors also served tasty grub"Bill Miller"— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) August 7, 2019
Progressives go crazy when successful businesses have owners who don't conform to their expected political beliefs. In the past it's been Domino's Pizza and Chick-Fil-A; now it's Bill Miller BBQ (a personal favorite). Any time these bastards call a boycott, I declare a buycott.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) August 7, 2019
You have lost your mind. I didn't see Trump pulling puppet strings behind mass murderers. In fact, the Dayton, OH killer was reportedly a Cherokee Lizzie supporter.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) August 7, 2019
There are lots of legitimate reasons to terminate Carlson, an economically illiterate populist who thinks Cherokee Lizzie's Statist policies are "interesting". However, he is one of the few hosts who is skeptical about our bipartisan foreign interventionism. #FireTuckerCarlson— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) August 7, 2019
Rivera is RIGHT and you're WRONG. We have a broken-down immigration system. It is grossly immoral to arrest anyone for the "crime" of working in America, contributing to our economy, voluntary business-worker contracts. It is economic illiterate madness for any govt to meddle.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) August 9, 2019
"Some of the animals remembered -- or thought they remembered -- that the Sixth Commandment decreed, 'No animal shall kill any other animal.' And though no one cared to mention ..., it was felt that the killings which had taken place did not square with this." Animal Farm, Ch. 8 https://t.co/MM1ThphcWp— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) August 9, 2019
Oh, HELL NO, you Statist political whore. The government has fucked up healthcare, public education, college tuition, the housing market, and the economy in general. The free market is the ONLY institution that serves the consumer. I don't trust goddamn government censors.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) August 9, 2019
#IOnlyGetScaredWhen the IRS sends me mail.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) August 9, 2019
#IOnlyGetScaredWhen I get pulled over.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) August 9, 2019
Anytime anti-liberty left-fascists declare a boycott, I call a buycott. #BoycottWalmart— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) August 9, 2019
