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Post by Dragon*of*Heaven on May 4, 2008 20:46:37 GMT -5
Hello every one DoH is back and I have a question for all of us atheists to consider. As some of you may know I am currently attending a Catholic College, and I have recently been hearing a lot about the issue of abortion. One thing I have been hearing is that atheists hold a primary responsibility considering the deaths of those aborted. In other words that the questions that we bring to the world lead people from religion, and thus make sure that they lead a life of immorality. Personally I have to tell you that I am rather offended by this position. If it were not so horribly wrong I might actually find it amusing. Even though I am sure that there are some atheists that are fine with Abortion but Personally I think it is probably the worst thing confronting society. For an atheist life is all important. For a humanist life is even more important. Why would we therefore want to kill members of our own species. Does this mean that it should be in the same realm as the moral absolutes that the theists use? No that is not what I am saying, there are always areas of gray but that does not mean that the last ditch method should be come the primary method of use. After all you would not kill your family pet simply because it became inconvenient. Do any of my fellow atheists disagree with this Position?
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snafui
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Post by snafui on May 11, 2008 0:44:34 GMT -5
Being Taoist all life is precious. I have a hard time with abortion because of that. As you know I don't believe in a supreme being and I am an atheist now and find the idea of destroying life because it is inconvenient as despicable and a complete abuse of power.
Then you must think, what exactly makes us human then? At what point does that unique set of chromosomes, that unique never to be truly duplicated DNA, become a human being? Is it at some type of consciousness? I hope the hell not. Is it only after it has a brain and a nervous system? This is because our mind is the brain. What about the beating heart? What about viability?
Discovering the point at which one must decide when life begins is an all encompassing question that truly brings your view of what life is in to question. Only someone that has not truly considered these possibilities would be absolute in their position.
Not sure if I answered the question for you or not. Or did I just make it harder? If so, oops.
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