(February 7, 2012 at 11:17 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: You see, to Pro-lifers, "life" is a very rare, but vitally important thing, like the Spice in Dune. For the longest time it was assumed to exist only in embryos and fetuses, but around 2005, "life" was found in the body of a brain-dead woman named Terri Schiavo, and many pro-lifers started to work under the assumption that all brain-dead people have this thing called "life." And, of course, people who have been born and whose brains were functioning do not possess "life."
While I don't get the Dune reference, I thought that was epic. That definitely deserves to be framed. It's funny you mention Terri Schiavo, because on the Atheism and Life Support thread I was going to respond by singing the Terri Schiavo song.
"Sisters, you know only the north; I have traveled in the south lands. There are churches there, believe me, that cut their children too, as the people of Bolvangar did--not in the same way, but just as horribly. They cut their sexual organs, yes, both boys and girls; they cut them with knives so that they shan't feel. That is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling. So if a war comes, and the Church is on one side of it, we must be on the other, no matter what strange allies we find ourselves bound to."
-Ruta Skadi, The Subtle Knife
-Ruta Skadi, The Subtle Knife
