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    Unplanned, the movie

    I think you may be missing the point here. When someone chooses not to get involved, even though it easily within their power to do so, we hold them morally accountable—we recognise that they should have intervened to stop the crime from taking place, and we consider it wrong that they did not...
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    Unplanned, the movie

    Again, that's some rather ambiguous terminology. What do you mean, a "human being"? Do you mean that it is a member of Homo sapiens? Do you mean that it is a person? Do you mean something else altogether?
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    Unplanned, the movie

    Perhaps we would be as satisfied as when someone steps in to prevent a crime from taking place?
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    Alexandria Cortez quits social media due to "public health risk".

    You know, the woman who Ben Shapiro is obsessed with?
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    Alexandria Cortez quits social media due to "public health risk".

    Huh? It says that she is "cutting back on her use of Twitter and Instagram," not abandoning social media altogether. And that's understandable to anyone who has spent enough time on social media, particularly if their posts concern political content. I've heard this elsewhere, and every time I...
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    Unplanned, the movie

    I've noticed a tendency among some individuals identifying as "pro-life" to the use of rather ambiguous terminology when it comes to this particular issue. Is an embryo a "child"?
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    Unplanned, the movie

    Sounds like the Bible isn't sufficient for developing a system of ethics then?
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    Unplanned, the movie

    Could you supply us with passages where it explicitly condemns it? The only passages that seem to allude to abortion don't comment on the ethics of abortion per se (Numbers 5:11-31) and relate more to other issues, such as marital fidelity.
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    Are Any Objections to Christian Faith Successful?

    I think that the problem of evil is a plausible candidate for a successful objection to the Christian faith, but there are also other arguments, such as divine hiddenness (see Drange's formulation here, for example). These arguably apply more broadly and not just to the Christian view. For...
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    Why the hostility toward philosophy?

    Graham Priest's review of Timothy Williamson's latest book, Doing Philosophy: From Common Curiosity to Logical Reasoning, may be of interest here. It isn't directly relevant to the question of why some are inclined to be dismissive of philosophy, but it does touch on questions of how philosophy...
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    Unplanned, the movie

    As do pro-choice Christians. Obviously there are deep hermeneutic and theological differences here, but I think saying something like that (above) can really only be seen as pious rhetoric or virtue signalling of a sort. It does nothing to resolve those differences or advance the conversation.
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    Unplanned, the movie

    Well, except for when he does the shedding or the smiting.
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    Unplanned, the movie

    Sadly these films—Unplanned and God's Not Dead—end up getting recommended by believers as a means of proselytising to nonbelievers (see, for example, the OP). Frankly I can think of no worse form of evangelical apologetics than these films; if I wanted to put someone off Christianity, I would...
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    Why do you (atheists, agnostics etc) find yourself in the Christian forums?

    I originally joined here as a Christian and I have been participating on-and-off for many years now, even though I'm no longer a Christian. The main reason I come back: There are intelligent voices here—Christian and otherwise—that stimulate some thoughtful conversations.
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    Unplanned, the movie

    I don't intend on watching it. I will watch The Bible Reloaded review of it.