(June 16, 2015 at 1:17 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I think morality comes from the fact that life (especially human life) is sacred. And life is sacred because God made it sacred, and told us that it is sacred.
Would that be the same god who invented death, and issued it as punishment to every human who has every lived for a "sin" committed only by the first two? Would that be the same god who created Kaposi's Sarcoma, viral pneumonia, earthquakes, asteroids which wipe out 99% of all living things, and so on?
Tell us more about how he holds life to be sacred.
(June 16, 2015 at 1:17 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: And so hurting/destroying something sacred is always objectively and definitively wrong.
If you're against killing in any circumstance, why do you give your god a pass? He's the greatest killer in history, according to your own Bible.
(June 16, 2015 at 1:17 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: That's why I believe we must treat all life with dignity and respect. Because living things have a certain dignity to them.
I gather that you don't take antibiotics, then? Do you offer the shark your arm when you're paddling in the surf?
No, not all life is sacred. Your own actions give the lie to this platitude, lovely though it sounds.
Do you have any children?
(June 16, 2015 at 1:17 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: And that is why I believe we must treat humans especially well above plants and animals, because God made our lives at a higher level than those of other living things of the earth.
I really don't care about your superstitions. We're talking about morality.
