Mother Accused of Slitting Baby's Throat (feminist professor - expostfacto abortion)

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[RockChucker]

She's a feminist. I am sure her beliefs about babies made the dirty deed a little easier.

[cajungirl]

Would you grant her an attorney and a trial and an examination to determine if she was competent to stand trial and/or plead not guilty by reason of insanity. Or would you just dispense with that? It is well established in law that people can get all of the above. Would you sort of change that and let us all just run on down to the jail and string her up?

[A_perfect_lady]

Well, like I said, the last two recent well-publicized women in Texas who killed their kids, and then going back a ways to Susan Smith in South Carolina... None of them were feminist Islamic scholars; in fact, all were as far away from that as you can get, really. So where does that leave your theory?

I hate to say it on Free Republic, but as an atheist I think all religion is psychosis. I've just come to the conclusion that modern day American Christians are at least willing to fight for this country, and unlike Muslims and Marxists, won't kill me for refusing to get with their particular program, so I accord them the respect they are due on those counts.

But the fact remains that they believe in things that are, in fact, imaginary. This leaves them vulnerable to an advanced form of the insanity. It's funny, the average Protestant (at least, the ones I've known) believes there is a devil, but scoffs when someone says, "I'm possessed by him." Yet it's only an embellishment on the nonsense that he already believes in.

[PISANO]

Hope I am wrong but this seems like a case (so far) where the EXCUSE is so overwhelming that the VICTIM is obscured to the point of irrelavancy. I don't know how we got to the point that cold blooded 'pre-meditated' murder of the most innocent among us is EXCUSED as some sort of depression related activity that must be done at a regular interval like medication, to aleviate the "PROBLEM".

[hopespringseternal]

I hate to say it on Free Republic, but as an atheist I think all religion is psychosis.

Atheism is a religion. Welcome to the club and here is your padded room and straitjacket.

But the fact remains that they believe in things that are, in fact, imaginary. This leaves them vulnerable to an advanced form of the insanity.

People who make statements like this clue the world in that they don't understand evidence or logic and have closed their eyes to knowledge in order to preserve their own arrogance. You think you sound intelligent when you are merely being childish.

[music_code]

I hate to say it on Free Republic, but as an atheist I think all religion is psychosis...the fact remains that they believe in things that are, in fact, imaginary.

Speaking as a Christian, it is hard not to be amused by your arrogant words. In order for you to make an absolute statement like you just did, you would have to be God yourself (possessing all knowledge, power, and presence). It is obvious you are none of those things. Therefore all you have done is make a meaningless assertion.

This woman committed murder, plain and simple. I don't care what nonsense she spouts about post-partum depression and all that psycho-babble. It's all about her. This is nothing more than damnable selfishness on her part. She deserves to be put to death for her crime.

[MissAmericanPie]

At least she wasn't an American History professor.

[FITZ]

asked general info about post partum psychosis

Yes and wife beaters and killers are also suffering from some kind of psychosis and depression. Murder is murder, anyone who kills an infant or child should be given the death penalty. There is no excuse for murdering a totally helpless person.

[A_perfect_lady]

Speaking as a Christian, it is hard not to be amused by your arrogant words. In order for you to make an absolute statement like you just did, you would have to be God yourself (possessing all knowledge, power, and presence).

LOL! No offense, but I won't be getting into it with you. I've long since figured out that Christians think God exists till you prove he doesn't (although, of course, they don't extend the logic to elves.) So trying to talk to them rationally about it is pointless. You just go ahead and live in that world, it's fine with me.

[A_perfect_lady]

Atheism is a religion.

Nope. Sorry. You just revealed you have no idea what you're talking about.

[beckett]

LOL! No offense, but I won't be getting into it with you. I've long since figured out that Christians think God exists till you prove he doesn't (although, of course, they don't extend the logic to elves.) So trying to talk to them rationally about it is pointless. You just go ahead and live in that world, it's fine with me.

If you have proven the non-existence of God you really must rush to the philosophy department of the nearest university, talk to the chairman, and get your discovery published in a peer reviewed journal pronto. Your accomplishment is unprecedented in the whole history of the world. Soon you'll be more famous than Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Anselm, Augustine, Aquinas, Descartes, Pascal, Spinoza, Newton, Liebniz, Locke, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Marx, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Satre, Singer, Pinker, Dennett and all the other philosophers who have ever lived combined.

[A_perfect_lady]

I think you need to reread my post.

[A_perfect_lady]

In case re-reading it doesn't help, let me put it more simply: they think you have to prove non-existance, and if you can't, you must accept that it must be true. However, they cannot prove that elves don't exist, and they don't necessarily then accept that elves must be real. Therefore they aren't behaving rationally, and there's no point trying to argue with someone who is dedicated to internal incoherence. Is that more clear?

[cherry]

I think the latest news is that the baby had Down's syndrome....anyone else hear that?

[beckett]

When you use the second person pronoun improperly be prepared for readers to understand your words in ways you didn't intend.

For such an arrogant, omniscient person, your skills of exposition are not very impressive.

[beckett]

I think the latest news is that the baby had Down's syndrome....anyone else hear that?

I hadn't heard it, but if true it conforms pretty well with some speculation I offered in Post #73.

[EllaMinnow]

Yes, the baby had Downs. It's in the article at the beginning of another thread.

[hopespringseternal]

Atheism is a religion.

Nope. Sorry. You just revealed you have no idea what you're talking about.

So ruled the Supreme Court. If you actually bothered to think about the subject you would see why that ruling actually makes sense.

Ruling atheism to be just another belief system (which it is, since it relys on faith in the nonexistence of God) you prevent atheism from becoming a state religion. That is exactly the end of the ACLU jihad against religion. Preventing the establishment of atheism as the state religion protects the rights of the religious the same way as preventing Catholicism or Islam from such.

[music_code]

LOL! No offense, but I won't be getting into it with you. I've long since figured out that Christians think God exists till you prove he doesn't (although, of course, they don't extend the logic to elves.) So trying to talk to them rationally about it is pointless.

Your argument would hold if could truly be said that there were no more evidence in support of the existence of God than there was to support the existence of elves.

However, it is not at all that way. There actually IS evidence to consider which points to God's existence. Further, any argument which attempts to prove He doesn't exist can invariably be shown to be irrational. Therefore the burden of proof must fall on those who claim He doesn't exist.

[A_perfect_lady]

The Supreme Court can say as they like, and do it for obviously political reasons, but that doesn't change the fact that atheism is merely the absence of a belief in a deity. It's not even an active belief in the non-existence of god, that's just a way of putting it in order to make it sound like what you want it to sound like.

It's like my leftie fellow grad students who, soaked in relativism, state eagerly, "Even not having an agenda is having an agenda!" It's B.S. of the first order. Imagine applying the same logic to other areas:

"Even lawlessness is a sort of law!"

"Even amorality is a sort of morality!"

"Even a lack of structure is a type of structure!"

"Even being illogical is following a certain logic!"

[A_perfect_lady]

Well, now you're just having a brat attack because you know I'm right and it ticks you off. Hey, sorry to have ticked you off, but that's the way the cookie crumbles... Cookie!