RE: Atheists, the death penalty and abortion...
March 9, 2013 at 2:59 pm
(This post was last modified: March 9, 2013 at 3:00 pm by EGross.)
The primary language one this seems to be concern for the life of the mother, rape, and incest as exceptions.
Incest has always been a weird one. From my point of view, it seems to be a statement of religious belief, rather than rape (the woman did not want to have a child from a violent attack), or life of the mother (which indicates her as the primary life form).
If a daughter gets pregnant from her brother or father, and not because of any force, but because of a weird mindset of that family, then she is permitted to get an abortion and continue that behavior unchecked.
So I have wondered if that is a religious argument rather than a logical one, especially if the girl is no longer a minor, and perhaps not even living at home.
So is this indirectly encouraging incest?
Because despite our arguments of being separate from church and state, church does seem to have its hooks into state more than I would like.
Incest has always been a weird one. From my point of view, it seems to be a statement of religious belief, rather than rape (the woman did not want to have a child from a violent attack), or life of the mother (which indicates her as the primary life form).
If a daughter gets pregnant from her brother or father, and not because of any force, but because of a weird mindset of that family, then she is permitted to get an abortion and continue that behavior unchecked.
So I have wondered if that is a religious argument rather than a logical one, especially if the girl is no longer a minor, and perhaps not even living at home.
So is this indirectly encouraging incest?
Because despite our arguments of being separate from church and state, church does seem to have its hooks into state more than I would like.
“I've done everything the Bible says — even the stuff that contradicts the other stuff!"— Ned Flanders
