I give up...

Ok, guys, you were right all along. It's completely useless discussing things at AC. Rays followers are allowed to quote mine, lie, nut pick and show their lack of education/logical thinking, but our comments don't get posted even if we take care to capitalize and follow all these other stupid rules.

I'll get sick, if I have to read another of those ignorant comments on abortion and can't even answer. Where do they get their data from, anyway?
There are less than 50 million abortion in the whole world per year and only around 850,000 in the US.
We have less than 120,000 in Germany. That means 7 out of 1000 pregnancies, while the rate is 21/1000 in the US.
And why? Because we look at the reasons and try to deal with them instead of crying murder...
These are the reasons for abortion in the US:

* 25.5% Want to postpone childbearing
* 21.3% Cannot afford a baby
* 14.1% Has relationship problem or partner does not want pregnancy
* 12.2% Too young; parent(s) or other(s) object to pregnancy
* 10.8% Having a child will disrupt education or job
* 7.9% Want no (more) children
* 3.3% Risk to fetal health
* 2.8% Risk to maternal health
* 2.1% Other

I couldn't find matching data for Germany, but I'm sure you could shift the point in no. 2 and no. 4 to the left and divide no. 5 with 2.

There are many ways to reduce the number of abortions.
Telling teenagers about contraception would be one.
Helping young mothers in difficult financial or emotional states would be another.
The churches in Germany are against abortion, but they do the consulting that is required here before an abortion (well, the catholic church isn't allowed to participate any more) and they sign the letter, if you want them to. Without telling you that you are a wicked murderer. They just try to provide help.

And, looking at the data, that's more effective than bombing abortion clinics.

Choice is important. And I think it leads more often to the acceptance of the pregnancy than to abortion.
What would you prefer to tell your child?
-You exist, because it would have been a sin to kill you.
or
- You exist, because I decided that I wanted to have you despite all difficulties.

Am I an A-Thiest?

Since this word turns up so often at AC, I googled it. Seems, as if athiest and thiest are both used regularly by - well, mostly - theists...
Is this just another form of this g_d thing?
I thought there could be some kind of more subtle meaning, so I spend nearly half an hour finding it.
Thiest seems to be a Dutch boy name.
Fritz Thiest was a member of the communist party in Bremerhaven
Giselbert de Thiest signed a treaty in the 12th century
Amy Thiest makes porn movies...
So maybe I should insist on not being A.Thiest?
Then again: there should be pretty many of the raytards being anti-Thiest...

Honestly: Is it so difficult to spell theist right (either pro or anti)? -ist is a common ending in English, too, AFAIK.
I really doubt it honors their god if they can't even spell him correctly.

the origin of life made easy

Maybe some of you already know this one, but it might improve the debate over at AC if some of the Christians had a look at it.
(Well, that's a little bit to optimistic. But if it reduces the amount of completely ignorant comments on abiogenesis, it's a start.)

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=4mrBJ2WVZ8s

It's quite simplified, but at least it makes clear that scientist don't believe life just popped out of nowhere.