Posted on 10/18/2014 1:42:44 AM PDT by Morgana
Hello, everybody. I’m 19 years old, and %100 pro-life.
I’m also an atheist.
But before you decide to stop reading this, you deserve to know a few things about me.
I was born and raised in a Catholic family. I was baptized a month old, went to Sunday school, and went to church every Sunday. Okay, I went most Sundays. I also know that there are other divisions of Christianity, as well as other religions, and I respect your spirituality, what ever it may be.
I stopped breathing twice the day I was born. They doctor didn’t think I would live very long, but I did. I have ADHD, High-functioning Autism (also known as Asperger’s Syndrome), Gastro-Esophageal Reflux Disease, a thyroid disease, and, for the first four years of my life, was born deaf. I’m not asking for your pity, I’m just letting you know.
I was a Girl Scout for 13 years, which is the max. I’ve earned the Bronze Award, the Silver Award, and I almost earned the Gold Award, the highest honor you can receive. I have even earned a religious award, as well.
With all of those things, you would think that I would be very religious, but that’s not the case. Over the years, my views have changed, and I eventually became an atheist. But what hasn’t changed is my belief that abortion is wrong. It’s completely cruel, no doubt there. Everyday I grieve for the millions of lives that have been taken by the abortion industry.
You might be wondering why I’m telling all of this to you. It’s because I’ve been needing to get this off of my chest for a while, now. So thank you for taking your precious time to listen to what I have to say, and let’s keep on fighting for the lives of the unborn!
Thank you,
-LW
Well that might explain why she's atheist now.
Pray for her return to the faith. Thank God she has the conscience to know abortion is wrong.
This is true.
I go to church 2-3 times a month....for my kids....my wife...my shame
I believe and always have that Jesus is literally the son of God sent here to save us if we believe in him...and behave to varying degrees...I hope.... and I pray when I’m near death and for children and puppies
And it just makes more humankind sense to me compared to other faiths
And I raise my kids this way
But I’m no Bible thumper much and usually am drawn more by an old time preacher than the concept of church and church goers...though I like living amongst them....I don’t want to be them
But I’m strongly anti abortion....militantly
I find pro life tedious and easily pollyanna....plenty folks deserve to be kilt
But abortion....I’m sympathetic to stopping it by force if that would work
And I know non religious fallen born Catholic men....who feel the same way
So yes...as I southern Baptist hellion....I agree....plenty non Christians and non religious folks detest killing babies
I have to wonder about the drugs they are filling her with for ADHD/Aspergers as well. While I fully believe genuine cases of it exist, They pass that diagnosis out like candy, drug the kids and then their whole perception of reality is filtered through psychotropics and stimulants.
Great she’s pro life, not so great that she’s atheist, but are both REALLY what she believes or what she thinks she believes?
“I have to wonder about the drugs they are filling her with for ADHD/Aspergers as well. While I fully believe genuine cases of it exist, They pass that diagnosis out like candy, drug the kids and then their whole perception of reality is filtered through psychotropics and stimulants.”
I never considered that at all. I know what you mean however. What do they give people with Asphergers? I know what they give ADHD children. Basically cocaine that is Rx.
Depends on age in many cases. At some point after puberty the Cokeish stuff begins acting normally and is no longer effective. Other than ritalin/amphetamines, they use the same drugs used to treat depression/manic depression/bipolar ect. Psychotropics.
The famed atheist, Christopher Hitchens, also believed abortion was the taking of a human life. It was a conclusion he arrived at based solely on reason & logic.
That said, I do hope you find your way back to the Church and faith. God is real and calls us to Him — all you have to do is look for him in the ordinary. Far too many people look for Him to present Himself to us in some extra ordinary way.
Here is a post I put up @ two years ago, called God’s Sudoku.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2964965/posts
All the Best!
Bill
I have been on the drugs mentioned in the path, I ultimately ended and found alternative coping measures for some of them, I wouldn’t want my son or daughter on that medicine. The new Brocoli herbal supplement though, might be a better idea, if my kids turn out somewhat disordered.
They often give the same drugs to kids with Aspergers as they do to the ADHD kid, for the sake of trying to suppress the sudden mood swings, urge to have an outburst, that happens.
“Over the years, my views have changed, and I eventually became an atheist. “
And so your views can change anytime on any subject for any reason.
Mine can’t.
Stopped clock etc,
I was an “atheist” when I was 19, too. It’s so typical as to be hardly worth mentioning.
On the flip side - not all religious people are pro-life... or even wiling to follow Christ himself w/o a mortal proxy.
It’s not at all unusual for a nineteen year old to believe they are and declare themselves to be atheistic. They’re at the age when the vast complexity of becoming an adult begins to really hit, and figuring out God and their relationship with Him / matter of their own existence / purpose in being here can be seemingly simplified if they close their eyes for a bit and repeat “I don’t believe in ..., I don’t believe in ..., etc.”. Part of the normal questioning which can follow a “strict” upbringing in any belief system. I think it’s likely that at some point it will dawn on her to consider the source of the conscience and little voice telling her it’s wrong to devalue and discard unformed and innocent lives because they’re not “perfect”. Somehow I feel more hopeful about an “atheist” whose instincts are true than someone who professes a belief in God but without conscience can murder or support the murder of a child.
It’s actually amphetamines.
As a person with ADD, I can assure you cocaine does not have any impact.
In fact, in college, the one time I tried cocaine everyone else got all worked up. Me...nothing at all.
I understand it gets diagnosed a lot. But, I wasn’t diagnosed until I was in my forties. The single drug literally changed my life. It saved my life.
Well, I’m in my 50s and I’m a pro-life atheist. I became pro-life when I found myself pregnant. Women who kill their own babies are sick or scared, but it doesn’t matter what the reason is. I can certainly understand the scared part, but that’s no excuse for killing your own baby. Nobody thought I could raise a kid, but she turned out great.
There are no athiests in foxholes.
Excellent point. Faith is not something that can be turned on or off. This is one of the reasons we protect religious freedom in this country. It is considered to be a part of us just as our gender, race and nationa origin are. People do come to believe, and I guess can come NOT to believe, in God but it is not a matter of simply deciding about it.
One does not have to be a Christian to be Pro-Life (although I am BOTH!). St Paul teaches in the Book of Romans that all mankind has “Eternity in their hearts”, which gives all people a consciousness of Right and Wrong. Of course, as society is debased and degraded by sin, this Conscience becomes “seared”.
The original Hippocratic Oath (which was a Pagan oath to the God Aesculapius) forbids both Abortion and Euthanasia. Even the Greek Philosophers knew Natural Law.
I wonder if Medical Students even recite this oath anymore.
As for this young lady, I pray that the spark of “Eternity in her heart” will flare back up into Saving Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. This I pray in Faith, in Jesus Name, Amen.
Indeed. At 19 I thought “religion” was a nice story forwarded by cripples, shut-ins and old ladies to help themselves feel that they’re in the game. That is VERBATIM how I expressed it.
Been a loooooong road...
I’ve made the point that the liberals real target is not religion. Their cult is trying to make our society lose its virtue.
Once virtue is lost, we have evil running this planet.
"plenty folks deserve to be kilt"
"He needed killin'"....as true as it ever was.
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