Abortion certainly is a atheist issue. Not because atheists necessarily are pro choice, but because most of us are. Most arguments against abortion stem from either: 1) prude anti sex ideas; 2) ideas about what god has to say about morality or both. For these purposes, invoking "the sacred" and "man has been told" (by whom?) simply reads as a variant of number 2 to me. Most pro choice arguments ask the question whose rights are most important and why?
Without some explanation for the sacred other than ever since the begining, I just can't accept an argument on that basis.
It probably belongs in a different thread, but I do have some inborn sense of the sacred. It doesn't have to due with woo though, more with same process that gives us a sense of morality.
Without some explanation for the sacred other than ever since the begining, I just can't accept an argument on that basis.
It probably belongs in a different thread, but I do have some inborn sense of the sacred. It doesn't have to due with woo though, more with same process that gives us a sense of morality.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.