Republicans Say the Darndest Things!

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I mean, if it was like black women account for 30% of abortions and white women account for 40%, I could see erroneously reaching the conclusion that eliminating abortions (as if that were possible) would increase the percentage of white babies.

That’s not actually true, but I could see how a person could make that error because 30 < 40.

But there’s a higher absolute number of black babies aborted before you even look at the differences in the population.

Are these people so dumb that they think 39 < 33 ???

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IFYP

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90% of people are bad at statistics and the other 20% just don’t care.

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My counterargument is that the OT is weird and awful, and thank God nobody takes it seriously.

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Except when it comes to gays, since the NT references are even sketchier to interpret as anti-LGBT than the OT references.

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I think they believe the George Soros is personally funding the great replacement also.

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Except some people do take it seriously.

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Somewhat… I mean the right interpretation of that passage is to set up an official ritual, where a suspicious husband pays a sacrifice to the church, so that the wife is forced by a priest to drink a magic potion, to find out??? whether she should be stoned to death.

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That is how it worked, yes.

  • Pay the priest
  • Priest administers abortifacient
  • If the woman aborts, she was faithful. If she doesn’t abort, she was unfaithful.

I’ve heard it speculated the abortifacient was silphium, which was harvested to extinction by the Romans for abortion.

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I think this is backwards.

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As it was, it seems more consistent with the “if she drowns she is innocent” witch test idea.

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Sure, but the actual verse has it the other way:

“If she has made herself impure and been unfaithful to her husband, this will be the result: When she is made to drink the water that brings a curse and causes bitter suffering, it will enter her, her abdomen will swell and her womb will miscarry, and she will become a curse. If, however, the woman has not made herself impure, but is clean, she will be cleared of guilt and will be able to have children.”
‭‭Numbers‬ ‭5‬:‭27‬-‭28‬ ‭NIV‬‬

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My apologies. Was going off memory and @vjvj is right I mixed it with the “dead if good, evil if alive” witch test.

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Just to pointlessly clarify, the literal translation is “her thigh shall fall away”, and people have different ideas of what that means.

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Yes, very good point. There is considerable debate as to whether the passage even refers to abortion in the first place.

But if we assume it does then Rastiln had the cause backwards.

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Think of it this way:

If there’s a bloody mess: guilty.
If there isn’t: innocent

…which sort of makes sense, once you get over the horror and illogic of such a trial in the first place.

I thought it was pretty well accepted that this was just another instance of ancient Hebrew circumlocution due to modesty concerns. (c.f. 1 Samuel 24:3, “cover his feet” as a reference to relieving one’s self)

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I can’t tell how much agreement there is. But others think it is a literal rotting thigh, or something that would damage her reproductive system. (Ie. Guilty, you can’t have babies, innocent you can).

There’s also no mention shes pregnant in the first place. I guess that might also be implied?

Anyway, I agree it makes logical sense because an abortifacient is a real thing, as opposed to a magical thigh rotting potion made from water, dust, and God’s feelings about women.

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I would say “implied”.

The test itself isn’t a “fail-safe” . . . the woman could’ve been unfaithful and not get pregnant, and therefore could pass this test.

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