"if a woman wasn’t willing to die in childbirth, she shouldn’t have sex."

[jamal49]

45. The REAL Roots of These Knuckledraggers' Beliefs

No one ever seems to make the connection. There is an obvious reason why Richard Mourdock and others of his kind can utter such brazenly misogynistic and anti-women statements about rape and actually believe that what they say is benign, logical, correct and of no great consequence.

Mourdock, Todd Akins, Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney and a host of Republican candidates for public office are Christians of one kind or another (e.g. evangelical, Catholic, Mormon, Pentecostal, or just good, old plain Fundamentalist; the exception being Eric Cantor, who is allegedly Jewish but I digress).

Besides the Resurrection of Jesus, what is one of the other bedrock, foundational beliefs of Christianity? It is the story/myth of the conception and birth of Jesus. To whit:

God impregnated a young maiden (Mary, the Mother of Jesus) against her will and without her knowledge, and then, with the help of one of "God's enforcers" (aka "The Angel Gabriel&quot , coerced, or rather, "convinced" Mary that her pregnancy was a good thing because she (Mary) would be carrying and ultimately give birth to "God's Son" (aka "The Annunciation&quot . By doing so, by accepting her fate submissively and humbly, she would be "exalted" and "blessed" among women and, according to traditional Christian dogma/ideology, set an example for all women to follow gladly for all time.

This myth should be called for what it is: deistic rape. None other than God Himself is getting away with rape and, because He is God, being able to declare that such a rape is "good", not only for the woman (Mary) but for all of mankind.

Therefore, it is no surprise that a Richard Mourdock can blithely state that a conception from a rape is a "good thing" and "God's will", and much worse, that millions of American Christians who take the Bible at its most literal meaning (aka "Republicans&quot can agree wholeheartedly with such a vile perception.

Small wonder that for 2,000 years, such misogyny has been institutional, rampant, acceptable, and why there is still such vehement resistance to women having any control over their physical autonomy or their private, reproductive lives.

In other words, what is good for God's goose is good for God's gander.