not to be insensitive but some of the salem witch trials were so funny bitches like “i saw her at the devils sacrament!!!” girl... what were YOU doing at the devils sacrament 👀

Oh, please.

The people fleeing "religious persecution" were fundamentalists who were "persecuted" in the sense that they weren't allowed to impose their extremism on others.

This American blind worship of a bunch of racist white men from the 1700s is super creepy.

AMEN to that.

And if you're not okay with kids of different religions having to sit through another religion's prayers in school, you shouldn't be okay with atheist kids having to sit through any prayers at school at all.

I don't know if that was your intention, but based on the context of the OP quote and my comment your tag basically implies that if you don't want prayer in schools it's reasonable to come to the conclusion that you're being disrespectful and unloving to Christians.

And that's not even remotely in the ballpark of being true. Wanting public services paid for by public funds to be neutral to all beliefs isn't oppressing Christianity. In fact, secular public services protect Christians.

For example, in 1844 there were literal riots on the street in the US over which version of the Bible should be taught in schools.

What’s it to be my evangelical followers?

Reblog with your replies. (Also open to everyone else too).

@questions-for-christians​

The tweet is factually correct regarding abortion rates.

Other facts to take into consideration:

The “pro-life” movement has racist roots.

“Pro-life” sentiments were blatantly linked to nativism, anti-Catholicism, and anti-feminism. 

Falling birth rates among white people led anti-abortionists to claim abortion was akin to “racial suicide”, arguing white women should have  as many babies as possible to “combat” the rising numbers of minorities.

“Shall the West be filled by our own children or by those of aliens? This is a question our women must answer; upon their loins depends the future destiny of the nation.” argued Dr. Horatio Robinson Storer, who is often lauded as the father of modern gynecology and was a fierce anti-choice advocate. It’s largely thanks to him that abortion was made illegal in the US. 

Making abortions illegal doesn’t stop them from happening, it just makes them deadly to the people who will have them either way.

The abortion rate per capita in the US in Victorian times was ~2 million, making it 7 to 8 times higher than its is today. When abortion was first made illegal in the 1820s it made little difference on whether people had abortions.

In modern Zambia, where abortion is illegal, 69% of the respondents of a study on the topic knew one or more women who had died from an illegal abortion. 

Modern regulated legal abortions, on the other hand, are one of the safest procedures in modern medical practice, with case-fatality rates less than one death per 100,000 procedures. Pregnancy, on the other hand, has a maternal death rate of 7 to 10 deaths per 100,000 births (under ideal conditions and if the mother is past puberty and in good health; the death rate is much worse otherwise).

The year after abortion was legalized in New York State, the maternal-mortality rate there dropped by 45%. 

Abortion has not always been taboo in Christianity.

Until the last third of the nineteenth century, when it was criminalized state by state across the land, abortion was legal in the US before "quickening" (approximately the fourth month of pregnancy).

Colonial home medical guides gave recipes for "bringing on the menses" with herbs that could be grown in one's garden or easily found in the woods. By the mid eighteenth century commercial preparations were so widely available that they had inspired their own euphemism ("taking the trade"). Unfortunately, these drugs were often fatal*. 

The first statutes regulating abortion, passed in the 1820s and 1830s, were actually poison-control laws: the sale of commercial abortifacients was banned, but abortion per se was not. The laws made little difference.

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* I have more info on this topic within the history of abortion if anyone is interested.