Comments on: Unconvincing justification of possible murder

By: Danny the Admin

Danny the Admin — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 07:59:30 +0000

7-months feti survive out of womb, and there are incidents of even earlier births. Even the pro-abortion politicians concede that 12-week fetus is a live being.

By: henrik

henrik — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 03:50:15 +0000

If the fetus is 8 months or so, yes then forbid abortion but not if it is just a bit of goo that wouldn’t survive outside the womb anyway. [MODERATED]

By: Danny the Admin

Danny the Admin — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 22:19:29 +0000

To me, religion is a subset of belief systems dealing with metaphysics; ideology is another subset dealing with political matters.

By: Tatterdemalian

Tatterdemalian — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 20:51:26 +0000

Ah, you’re simply making a distinction that I am not… what you believe in is called a “religion,” while what other people believe, you call “ideology.”Me, I’m an agnostic, so they both look like belief systems to me.

By: Danny the Admin

Danny the Admin — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 14:47:12 +0000

I’m not sure what do you mean by “man-made climate change.” The ecological issues? I don’t see what that has to do with religion; on the contrary, religious people doubt that humans could determine the events on planetary scale.I don’t know of rabbis who fight the existence of evolution. Indeed, it is a tenet of Judaism that after the world was created, it was left to develop according to its own laws. Talmudic rabbis said fifteen centuries before Darwin, “Before the generation of Enoch, people’s faces were like monkeys’.”I agree with you that ideologies are similar to religions. Do you suggest that we all abandon ideological preferences? Democracy is also a faith. Perhaps the idea is to avoid driving beliefs into the extreme where the believer is closed to criticism?You are correct that scientific beliefs could be as unquestioning as the religious ones.Let’s say, atheism is not a religion but equally unprovable belief?

By: Tatterdemalian

Tatterdemalian — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 13:56:41 +0000

Examples include the belief in man-made “climate change,” and the continuing battle to deny the existence of evolution. More specific examples abound, from Thomas Edison’s electrocuting elephants to “prove” that AC power is more dangerous than DC power, all the way up to Nazi and Communist social theories that are still being practiced today, despite their infamous failures..Unquestioning religious belief in scientific theories is one of the greatest dangers humanity faces today. Unlike religion, science can guarantee results, within a measurable degree of entropy or error; it doesn’t only work when you have enough faith, or when some diety wills it. This has led people to put faith in scientific theories, with the destructive side effect that people will refuse to revise those theories, no matter the evidence that demonstrates the need to do so. The combination of guaranteed results and religious faith has led to devastation throughout Europe, Asia, and even Africa in the 20th century, and may yet lead to the destruction of the US.”If atheism is a religion, then bald is a hair style.”

By: Danny the Admin

Danny the Admin — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 08:49:52 +0000

To DocNeaves: That sounds all right, but how about an example? I frankly don’t see what are the facts of Israeli (or the American, for that matter) politics which the religious people staunchily ignore.

By: Danny the Admin

Danny the Admin — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 08:32:28 +0000

To Sandy: AgreeTo OnThePathofLife: What is the religious argument against abortion, then?

By: OnThePathOfLife

OnThePathOfLife — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 04:52:02 +0000

God breathed into man the breath of LIfe and Man became a living Soul.The Soul enters the body when a baby takes its first breath.

By: Sandy

Sandy — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 00:30:49 +0000

You raise some interesting points and force some interesting inquiry. I thought of the woman who killed her new baby by putting it in the mircowave and turning on the oven. A knock-on affect of abortion is that we become desensitized to the value of all life when we find “reasons” to eliminate our own.