Moral Atheism

I have had no blog updates the past couple of weeks due to me spending some time trying to write my book.

I often say that religion and fear go hand in hand. When you inflict fear upon someone, you tend to have power over how the now fearful person reacts and behaves.

Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN) is so into the God thing, that I call her “uber-religious.” Just go to her website, or better yet, look at her Twitter page. It looks like she has a cult following her (which in the opinion of many, she does).

On the House floor, while debating about the health care bill that so many republicans hate, Bachmann discussed that if school based health clinics resulted from health care reform, teenage girls would then easily get the chance to have abortions.

Yikes! What a whacko. Only someone with their judgment impaired so much with the Bible can think and react like this.

Bachmann is trying to push fear into the House of Representatives with this claim, and hopefully most of the others are just waving her off.

Speaking of debating in the House…how about what Congressman Alan Grayson (D-FL) stated about the GOP health care plan? “If you get sick, die quickly.” These are pretty strong words. Now republicans want an apology, just like Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) was talked into doing.

Both of those elected officials planned on stating these comments on the floor. This wasn’t some spontaneous blurb shouted out while the President addressed Congress. That immature behavior was clearly uncalled for.

These two examples are just more rhetoric that isn’t needed while we wait for work to get done in Washington. While Grayson’s claim is much closer to the truth, Bachman’s rant was surely out of ignorance, and fear. Neither representative should apologize for their words, but they need to debate with facts.

Instead of worrying that teens will have abortions, how about worrying on educating them that if they are in the situation where sex will happen, how can it be done safely? Ignoring it and hoping (or “praying”) that it won’t happen, is the absolute wrong this to do, and doesn’t work. Telling kids that abstinence is the only way to go sure as hell isn’t the answer either. Sex education is the MORAL thing to do.

NO SEX over SAFE SEX equals OOPS SEX

If this was taught, fearful mother of any age would be better prepared to handle parenthood, or plan for it, or even avoid it. I’m sure some woman wouldn’t need to have a clinic readily available.

I wonder if Michele Bachmann’s mother didn’t have a clinic readily available…

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