Thanks for taking the time to add your opinion to the question. I am genuinely interested about the basis that those who don't believe in God use to make their decisions about legal issues, such as determining the value of a life.
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Originally Posted by Akashic_Librarian  I don't happen to believe in the God of the Bible, and so I think what he has to say in his so called book (Read: Childrens story), is total and utter nonsense.. |
If you don't believe in Him, how can you think what He has to say is nonsense?
Of course a belief there is no God would automatically lead a person to think a book about him is total nonsense. But if you considered that there may be a God, then would your opinion change about the nonsense of the actual content?
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Originally Posted by Akashic_Librarian Have you ever stopped to think that maybe those books argue against abortion because when they where written it was a dangerous procedure? That probably ended in the death of the mother most of the time as well? . |
You are making a lot of assumptions here that are not true. There are no books in the Bible that argue against abortion. It's not even mentioned there as a possibility. It does not say that life begins at a certain point as I think I have said.
People that believe in the God of the Bible are making their decisions based on the principles in there, that children are valuable, that God knows us before we are born, that life itself is a gift from God.
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Originally Posted by Akashic_Librarian No of course not. Imagine if God wasn't behind everything...you might have to think for yourselves |
I don't mind that you don't agree with me that there is a God or on the truth in the Bible. But it is insulting for you to suggest my beliefs come from a lack of critical thinking or that I have not contemplated or examined them.
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Originally Posted by Akashic_Librarian I believe that children are NOT conscious until they are born. |
So your definition of consciousness is that it stems from breath and not from the heartbeat and brain waves of the baby that are working before birth? What is magical about breath? If consciousness comes from oxygen then oxygen is coming to the baby from the mother's blood through the cord.
Your value of worth in the world is on performance? That those that are not contributing are not of value and deserve no legal rights?