Women's Rights and Religion

[Fidel_Castronaut]

When I hold my new-born baby, I instinctively know she is precious beyond measure and that I have a natural unalienable right to nourish and protect and love her forever. That innate acknowledgement comes only to me from on high, not because I heard or read it somewhere. It is not externally or culturally spurred on, it is hardwired into our humanity.

Or, it's an instinctual reaction engrained into your mind from billions of years of evolution.

If you were a polar bear, and that baby was a mates rival, instinct would tell you to tear it apart limb from limb to increase the resources necessary for your own off spring to survive.

This was a trait of humanity until not too long ago. In fact, it is a trait that some still adhere to now around the world.

When I hold by newborn, should I remind myself that it is really just a bag of guts, and a needy inconvenience that needs its disgusting diaper changed way too often? We must be very careful here. When we drop the sanctity of life and trade it in for material evolution and nothing else, we walk down a very treacherous slope that other societies have gone down.

Why?

Define what exactly is meant by 'sanctity of life'? What life, in particular? Human life? If so, that's only a very localised and modern perspective on humanity per se. For millions of years otherism has been the dominant force behind choosing who lives and who dies. I disagree that it is 'self-evident' - It hasn't been self-evident for the vast majority of people. And it wasn't engendered by any particular religion either. I would say it was more likely stemming from things such as Westphalia & the renaissance where sovereignty over the self became more of a status quo, on both a personal and national/international level.

I don't know what 'material evolution' is. Please define it.

I also disagree with your user title; I've never had any religious views since I was born. I have 'views on religion', which is a decidedly different thing altogether, wouldn't you say?