Tea Party creep Todd Akin took it a
step further, explaining that in cases of legitimate
rape, a woman's body has a way of magically identifying the fetus as
a rapebaby and “shutting the whole thing down.” The problem with
that explanation, of course, is that it is rooted in a controversial
new field of medical study known as “made up shit with no basis in
real science.”
But let's go back to rape being a gift
from God. The general idea here is that everything that happens to anybody is
“meant” to happen, no matter how awful it is. Whether you're religious or not, it's
important to note that no actual Christian believes this
insane shit.
The idea of rape being part of God's
plan directly contradicts a fundamental Judeo-Christian concept: God
gives everyone free will. This includes criminals, who will sometimes
choose to use their free will to do horrible shit that God is
not into. So the normal
Christian view of how something as horrible as rape is possible in a
universe where a benevolent God exists is simple: God gives a
rapist the same free will that we all enjoy; it doesn't mean that
He mandated for a rape to happen.
But let's pretend all Christians are
this insane, or that Richard Mourdock's special link to his rapegod allows him to know things the rest of us
don't. His viewpoint would, by default, also make him pro-murder.
Murder is the only crime
comparable to rape in its heinousness and its ability to completely
destroy a human being. Many people would argue that rape is
worse than murder, as it leaves its victims mercilessly alive to try
to process the horrors done to them. So if Republicans really believe
that rape is a gift from God, they cannot logically turn around and
say that murder is not also a gift.
Served.
Of course, this may all be a moot
point. We're only talking about cases of legitimate
murder here, and from what I understand, that's really rare. In cases
of legitimate murder, the human body has a way of trying to shut that
whole thing down. Namely, by dying.
