RE: Abortion: 10 years as an atheist and I still don't get it
February 25, 2020 at 9:28 am
(This post was last modified: February 25, 2020 at 9:28 am by Fake Messiah.)
(February 25, 2020 at 7:38 am)Klorophyll Wrote:(February 25, 2020 at 7:31 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Not sure I grasp your point. You accuse us of being murderers, then ask us to justify the death of bacteria. It seems as if that justification should come from the pro-life crowd.
My point should be clear, I think. Only a superior moral reference can settle this issue. Avoiding this fact runs into problems, abortion is one instance when one simply can't have a coherent justification for ending the infant's life without earning the murderer title.
Maybe I should have put it this way: abortion is a problem which atheists are trying to solve by contraception, education, better opportunities for people, etc.; while Christians are using abortion to act as some "moral" prima donnas.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"