Oh no, the nice Christian white couple wants to adopt a baby from a mother that doesn’t want/can’t take care of her child. The audacity. The horror.
My husband and I. His teachers. His therapist. Cannot figure my son out. He’s 7, about to be 8. And he’s just always up to some bullshit. Like… LOL I don’t know how else to describe it. One minute he can be vacuuming for me, “to help,” in the next minute, he’s pouring water over his little brother’s dinner. And you ask him about it and he’s like “oops, sowwy.” Just today he has 1) cleaned up his room without being asked 2) vacuumed without being asked 3) given me lots of hugs! but also he has 1) poured water all over his brother’s food 2) took sand and dirt from a potted plant and threw it all over the living room 3) let the dog outside 4) smashed up his Hotwheels. Like bro what is his problemmmmmm why are you so randomly chaotic. I feel like I can NEVER let me guard down around him because I don’t know if he’s going to sit and play quietly while I go pee or climb on the fridge and yeet himself off it.
For me it is probably wrath. I have a very hot head and can be temperamental and argumentative.
I mean first of all, she wasn’t suffering a miscarriage if her baby was still alive, right? So that’s already misleading. She had an impending miscarriage. Secondly, they didn’t just send her home, they gave her intense antibiotics and told her the baby would likely pass in the next 24 hours. Thirdly, the baby did pass away, but her infection progressed to organ damage resulting in her death. Sepsis can progress to fatality within hours. Did doctors not take her infection seriously enough? Likely yes; but also just as likely that her sepsis would have progressed the way it did even if the doctors had aborted her baby the first time she showed up at the ER. It is intentionally misleading to imply that she’d still be alive if she’d had an abortion. There is simply no way to determine that; she showed up to the ER with an infection. She was given antibiotics. They obviously did not work or her infection was already too advanced to reverse. Also, it’s not like she was 6 weeks pregnant?! She was six MONTHS!
I’m sure there are multiple reasons for everyone, but is your tippy top reason?
I can be judgmental and mean spirited. I judge easily
I argue a lot and get very angry and say mean and hurtful things sometimes
I’m annoyed so easily by others
I feel like I’m smarter than most people and find most others stupid
I try so hard to not be like this but I always fall back in to these patterns of thought and behaviors. I go to church, I pray, I read my Bible… and I always think “okay, today is the day, I’m going to be better…”
And then I’m just not
I just feel like I’m not a nice or good person and I don’t know what to do to change
**I posted this in r/christianity and it was not received very well, of course. In a nutshell, I was called a hateful bigot.** So I’m curious how this theoretical discussion might go here.
There’s always the impasse when it comes to anything LGBT+ related. We can agree on A-Y but disagree on Z and suddenly that is the stone that tips the scale.
Take an example…
Barbara is a Christian. She goes to church every Sunday. She gives to charity very generously. She inherited money from her family and gives it all away. She volunteers every Wednesday at the food bank. She runs the sandwich ministry at her parish and helps make lunches to pass out to the homeless population every Saturday. She has been happily married for 35 years and has three kids and three grandkids and is very involved in their lives. She gardens and homesteads and gives her neighbors fresh fruit/vegetables and eggs. She worked as a nurse most of her life and lived in Nigeria for a year doing outreach medical. She also fosters abandoned or sick/injured dogs and rehabs them for adoption. Barbara sounds like such a great person right?
BUT Barbara really does not agree with society promoting and celebrating LGBT+. She disagrees with Pride events, gay couples being married in churches, and any form of gender reassignment.
Now suddenly Barbara is a horrible person to so many people.
Why does that one thing dictate so much? So Barbara really doesn’t like LGBT+. Okay. Why does that negate all the other good she does? She is not beating up gay people in the parking lot. She just thinks it’s sinful/unnatural behavior to promote within society. She does SO MUCH good for her community and others. Yet she would be vehemently HATED by most. Why?