From: Grant Callaghan (grantc4@hotmail.com)
Date: Sat 09 Nov 2002 - 17:17:14 GMT
>
>>
>>3. Is the stance of the U.S. on abortion, for example, the result of
>>reason or religious fanaticism?
>
>Maybe it's a deeply held belief about the purpose of fecundity. A wiccan
>can be just as 'fanatic' over the sanctity of a human life as anyone else.
>Some of the first known artifacts- social?, religious?, magical? (we do not
>know the cultural, therefore the memetic, context)- are the so-called
>'venus' maquettes, always of a pregnant female. Get into your head and
>discover where _they_ came from, and your answer will be close.
>
>- Wade
>
I'd say it's more likely a way of showing they're holier than the rest of us
and that's why we should follow them. People who want to spare the lives of
little babies (fetuses) are doing God's work as espoused by Christ. I have
no doubt the genuinely feel for the lost babies, but at the same time I have
to ask what they are using their stance for. I protest abortion by not
practicing it. I don't try to get the rest of the world to follow my
example using extreme propaganda and condemning everyone who doesn't follow
me. That's an example of using the philosophy of Christ to gain followers.
The next question is what do you ask those followers to do besides not kill
babies? What G. W. Bush is doing is asking us, because of his righteous
example of goodness, to follow him into war.
Grant
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