okay i’m curious bc my parents were relatively young having me but idk what age difference is “normal” between parents and kids as i’ve met people with plenty of variations. so if you want, reblog this and tag (don’t comment) how old your parents were when they had you. my mom was 25 and my dad was 21.
I love asking people how their parents met. You always get an interesting reply. My best friend’s parents met on the relatively new internet in 1999. My other friend’s parents met at Burger King when one was the manager and the other was a regular customer. My parents met at the beach because they were neighbors in their rental houses, mom was on a church trip and dad was getting blackout drunk every night with his friends next door.
“The Christian idea of marriage is based on Christ’s words that a man and wife are to be regarded as a single organism-for that is what the words ‘one flesh’ would be in modern English. And the Christians believe that when He said this He was not expressing a sentiment but stating a fact-just as one is stating a fact when one says that a lock and its key are one mechanism, or that a violin and a bow are one musical instrument. The inventor of the human machine was telling us that its two halves, the male and the female, were made to be combined together in pairs, not simply on the sexual level, but totally combined. The monstrosity of sexual intercourse outside marriage is that those who indulge in it are trying to isolate one kind of union (the sexual) from all the other kinds of union which were intended to go along with it and make up the total union. The Christian attitude does not mean that there is anything wrong about sexual pleasure, any more than about the pleasure of eating. It means that you must not isolate that pleasure and try to get it by itself, any more than you ought to try to get the pleasures of taste without swallowing and digesting, by chewing things and spitting them out again.”
Out of all the things I’ve received at pride parades, as a Christian, this one is my favorite.
The Christian message is about love, but this is not love. This is watching someone walk blindfolded toward a cliff and saying “Keep going, you’re doing amazing sweetie!”
That’s not love. It sounds like love to the blindfolded person, but that’s because the blindfolded person doesn’t realize what’s about to happen to them.
The message of Christianity is that we are all not just headed toward a cliff, but falling off one. Only Jesus can pick us up and put us back on solid ground. He doesn’t do that by affirming our sin or saying “be yourself.” He did it by dying for our sin and rising again to give us new life. We pay nothing for this. We can do nothing to earn this.
He gives us a new life and asks us to act like someone who’s just been given a second chance. Does that mean we go right back to the cliff? It shouldn’t, but too often we do. So Jesus picks us back up, turns us around, and sets us in the right direction again. And again. And again.
Taking that forgiveness for granted and encouraging someone to turn back toward the cliff because “God is love” is not loving to that person, or to the God who died to save them.
This pamphlet is cute and colorful, but it is dangerous to the person who takes it seriously.
Also, please note the number of people in the comments who are either atheist or have left Christianity saying “this is the kind of Christianity I like!”
That’s because it isn’t true Christianity. They rejected Christianity. Their praise only highlights how heretical the pamphlet truly is.
To LGBTQ people: God loves you. Jesus died for you. He wants something better for you than the life you’re living. He invites you to come as you are, but promises to change you into someone new, someone who can enter into eternal life and eternal joy with Him.
I encourage everyone to read this. Couldn’t have said it any better.
Wow, I’m speechless. Thank you for posting this!
“Strange, isn’t it, that both pro-choice and pro-life people agree that is true? Abortion is a horrible and harrowing experience. That women choose it so frequently shows how much worse continuing a pregnancy can be. Essentially, we’ve agreed to surgically alter women so that they can get along in a man’s world. And then expect them to be grateful for it.
Nobody wants to have an abortion. And if nobody wants to have an abortion, why are women doing it, 2800 times a day? If women doing something 2,800 times daily that they don’t want to do, this is not liberation we’ve won. We are colluding in a strange new form of oppression.”
IM AWED
“One day, the tide is going to turn. With that Supreme Court decision 43 years ago, one of the sides in the abortion debate won the day. But sooner or later, that day will end. No generation can rule from the grave. The time is coming when a younger generation will sit in judgment of ours. And they are not obligated to be kind.”
I mentioned a few months ago about going out to an abortion mill with Sarah, who is pregnant, a mother of 5, a foster mom of multiple children, and an OB/GYN (so basically, an expert on all things pertaining to abortion). We spoke on ectopic pregnancies specifically. Here’s a recent post from her.
Had to repost as images because Tumblr refused to post 90% of the text, even in multiple posts.
For those doubtful of the words from a pro-life OB-GYN, I follow various midwifery and Obstetric groups, one of them being ObG Project. On their website, they basically share the information shared here, though they do not specify in as great detail about cellular growth as Dr. C does. Still, the info is essentially the same, and the terms “termination” or “abortion” are not used on the topic of extra-uterine pregnancies, simply because EU pregnancies are not properly treated by pregnancy termination/abortion as described. You will see similar language use in other OB-GYN resources. You can sign up for ObG Project here: https://www.obgproject.com/
The best way a pro-life advocate can defend unborn life and women’s lives is to become familiar with basic gynecology. This allows us to truly understand and explain how abortion is an unsafe or unlikely option for the hard cases, as well as making sure women are getting the info they need to keep themselves healthy and safe. Pro-Choicers chant on and on about their ovaries and vaginas and uteruses, yet they don’t spread factual information on how they function or how they should be protected – let us fill that void to let women on the sidelines know what their SAFE and life-affirming medical options are.
^ very true! Educate yourself! I study gynecology all the time and it’s helped me defend my position so many times. Meanwhile, most pro choicers don’t know what a fetus looks like, how abortions are done, or even what conception means.
Why are people having so much issue with the article, I agreed with it? The title isn’t the most eloquent thing ever but the article wasn’t encouraging cheating, where you go behind your partners back, but instead looking at the issue of cheating as a not black-and-white thing where there’s one horribly evil person who just wanted to have fun/get laid with one traumatized-for-life victim. Instead, like most- nah, let me say with ANYTHING in real life beyond fiction, the article sees the grays in cheating and why the person cheated in the first place. Not to say that cheating isn’t a horrible thing to do, but I feel like people need to understand that there are reasons people do the things they do. People who cheat are human beings. They could feel horrible about it, they could be trapped in a marriage or relationship that they don’t feel they can escape, they can feel insecure and unloved. Again, not to say it’s something you should ever do, but dehumanizing someone over a mistake is just as bad in my opinion. There’s nowhere where they can talk about their experiences, and it’s likely we know a lot of people who have cheated in our lives even if they haven’t (or were too scared) to tell us about it.Â
“dehumanizing someone over a mistake”
anyone who thinks cheating is “not that bad” is a literal piece of garbage
