I work in a conservative environment. I struggle to walk the line between trying to seem reasonable to people who believe Fox Nooz is a great source of information, and screaming until my throat hurts. Many of the people I deal with are truly nice people who have been hoodwinked into believing that the MSM is trying to turn us all into liberal zombies, and the country is going to hell in a handbasket.
Anyway, one day last week I found myself in a conversation about birth control, and how I don't think it's the job of YOUR church to tell ME whether I can have my tubes tied. Or what kind of birth control I should or shouldn't use. I said that birth control and abortion are not the same thing. The gentleman I was talking to replied, "But some people really think birth control and abortion are the same thing."
I said, "Preventing ovulation is not abortion."
He said, "But they believe it's the same thing."
I dropped it at that point. But here's the thing. Believing something doesn't make it so. Especially when you believe that two distinctly different things are the same thing.
is not the same as
If you went to a restaurant and ordered this:
you would not think they were the same if the waiter brought you this:
Eggs are not chickens. Eggs are not babies. How hard is that?