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Originally Posted by JMS
yes, catz. there is a double standard at work, humans have a monopoly on life that is valued, until they develop an emotional attachment (pets for example) - then its just inexcusable. i actually find it odd that its the religious (particularly those that adhere to the bible) who seem to take offense to abortion the most; a lot of scripture seems to undermine the value of human life.
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Can you quantify "a lot"? And God, who is the creator of man, holds the keys. The Bible doesn't attempt to hide that.
And if the Bible is about man's cruelty, man's sin, man's selfishness, man's greed, man's damage to those around him, then how can that book not contain stories of human life being less than what it should be.
If you read the Bible, you can't possibly come away with any conclusion other than "geeeeze, I wonder why God didn't just wipe them all out and start over..."
And according to ardent humanists, emotions are nothing more than bio-chemical changes in the brain. So who cares about life and death, only what I must do to improve
my life and delay my death!
What secularists don't often say is that they presume that there is no human soul that lives beyond the body. And why not, you all have an investment in that outcome, hoping, trusting, and willing it to be true.