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Make your critics state their case clearly
Don’t let your opponents get away with simply asserting a bunch of things they never have to defend. Make them formally state their case.
Assertions are not arguments
When your opponent makes an assertion rather than a formal argument, the burden of proof is on them to defend their own assertion, not on you to refute it. Knowing that makes all the difference in a conversation you might have on abortion.
Simple, Simple, Simple
The pro-life argument is either sound or unsound. Dismissing it with a phony appeal to tolerance is not going to work.
Politics is not poison
When Christians engage politically, they are doing so for the right reasons: that of loving their neighbor and promoting human flourishing.
Sometimes you need to put your street fighting gloves on
On today’s episode, we dissect a commenter’s arguments against the pro-life stance. We learn to use logic and our syllogism to reveal the fallacies in his reasoning.
A Politically Evil Party
It’s not pro-lifers who refuse to protect children once they’re born. It’s pro-abortion Democrats.
I hate women, so what?
The pro-life argument stands on its merits, not the behavior of the person making the argument. Whether I hate women or love them is irrelevant to the question, “what is the unborn?”
Abortion advocates, you need to try harder
Lazy dismissals of the pro-life argument will not work long-term. It might score you brief political points, but overtime your influence wane.
5 words to help you think clearly about IVF
Christians need to avoid a technological morality that says, “Just because we can do it, we ought to do it.” IVF is technologically doable, but it doesn’t mean Christians should rush into creating children using a method that is an ethical minefield.