Someone claiming to be a Satanist wrote in to the Abolish Human Abortion contact page. I reproduce our conversation here for your edification:
His first email:
I beg a pardon, but I couldn't help but notice what seems to me to be a
slight hypocrisy in the reasoning that backs the opinions stated on this
site. As a Christian organization (or at least a predominantly
Christian organization) your holy book of choice is obviously the
Bible---a collection of texts that boast astonishingly little concern
for the welfare of children, even for a series of writings jotted down
in the Bronze Age. The book of Proverbs, for example, recommends beating
one's offspring with rods (staves) in response to defiance (Proverbs
19:18, Proverbs
22:15,
Proverbs 23:13-14) and tells parents not to allow themselves to feel
pity for their child's crying. This book supposedly being written by
king Solomon---the wisest person ever to live and a godly man, by the
Bible's account. King David, Solomon's father, and someone Yahweh
describes as "...a man after mine own heart..." sung songs by harp about
his hope that soldiers would someday invade the enemy country of
Babylon and that the citizens of that place would be made to witness
their children---presumably innocent, just like the unborn---crushed to
death against stones by the invaders (Psalms 137:9). His predecessor
Saul performed a complete genocide of the Amalekites, slaughtering men,
women, children, and "sucklings" all on Yahweh's explicit command. (He
even forbids Israel from sparing any of the Amalekites' pets or
livestock.---1 Samuel 15:3)
