Brendan Jones – 5/8/08

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Startling statistic; Brendan Jones; Beaver County Times; May 8, 2008.

If you’ve read Mr. Jones’ letters, you know he doesn’t believe in religion. He not only doesn’t believe in religion, he ridicules those who do. In a previous letter, Mr. Jones referred to “religious faith” as a “virus” and asserted, “The Bible teaches to kill all the non-Christians.” That smacks of someone not secure in his opinion.

Actually, I need to correct myself. Mr. Jones appears to believe in religion, the religion of atheism. Why is atheism a religion? Because, just as those who believe in a deity can’t prove the existence of God, atheists can’t prove God doesn’t exist. Therefore, both beliefs are based on faith.

It’s possible Mr. Jones would assert he’s agnostic (not committed to believing in either the existence or the nonexistence of God), but that would not explain the vigor with which he goes after believers in God.

Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.

“With all of the recent letters pleading for me to vote for a God-fearing president who will protect the unborn, I can only help but laugh at the irony.”

[RWC] It appears Mr. Jones doesn’t know the definition of irony. As a reminder, irony is “the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning.”

“Medical fact shows us that, at a minimum, 50 percent of all pregnancies end in miscarriage, the vast majority of which happen before the woman even knows she is pregnant.”

[RWC] I don’t know where Mr. Jones got his “[m]edical fact,” but I could find nothing confirming it. Based on few minutes of searching, it appears that in the U.S., miscarriages occur in about 20-25% of pregnancies. Perhaps Mr. Jones is writing about worldwide statistics. That said, the actual percentage is irrelevant regarding the abortion debate.

“What that means is for every person that has ever lived, one unborn child has been spontaneously aborted, somewhere between 80 to 120 billion fetuses.”

[RWC] How is a miscarriage comparable to killing an unborn child for convenience? Should we not have laws against murder since we will all die eventually by accident or via natural causes?

I’m still waiting for the irony.