It just came up, I am content to let it lie. I think it enslaves women and is immoral. You think that it is a life of it’s own and she should be morally bound to nurture it.Why does this have anything to do with ‘being an atheist?’ (the title of the thread)
Lets say he has his member in her mouth, and she changes her mind. If she says stop, and he refuses, I think she has every right to bite off the offending obstruction and flush it.
There are countries which have a profound catholic influence on their governments, and countries which they have less. Why not see which ones are better off?
Hi A!
), for some reason. It’s different when we transfer our views onto our kids…actually, I used to be pro choice, until I had children. So, I know your views, and used to relate. But, I could never think of telling my kids to just have sex without taking repsonsibility. (and I don’t mean handing them a condom) I wouldn’t teach my kids to put their trust into a sheath of latex to protect them from a deadly disease, so we talk about abstinence and the consequences of sex. Running to an abortion clinic is not an option. So, I used to think a lot like you do on this subject, but could never think of telling my own kids the very same things that I once believed.There are also countries that outlaw Christianity like Stalin’s Russia where 40 to 60 million were killed either outright or through starvation. I know someone from Ukraine whose family were victims of his Atheistic values.
The fetus is ‘part’ of the woman in the sense that if she does not choose to support it, it dies.
The ridiculous situation you describe would indeed be heartless and selfish, I just refuse to blindly accept that all situations are the same as your caricature.
It is enough that the woman *says *that she is happy.
Interestingly, Hitler claimed to have ‘stamped out’ atheism in Germany back in 1928.
Please, show us this organized, monolithic Atheism-with-a-capital-A. Or are you pointing fingers at something so nebulous and intangible as saying ‘no’ when asked a particular question? There are other questions even more people happen to agree with totalitarian dictators on the answer to: I am sure Stalin valued oxygen just as much as you and I do. Does that make us horrible people by association?
Really now? And here I’d thought atheism was a theological stance, not a question of ethics, and as such the idea of individual value was out of its scope!
Uh… I don’t know where you’re getting these ‘facts’ about atheism, but they sure don’t look like anything I’m familiar with.
Declining to save the life you value a great deal.
I give my daughters all the information they can get. Their Mother is a nurse. If one of them chose to have an abortion, I would support that choice. If they chose to keep it from me, I would support that, too.A;
Do you have children? If not or if so, what might you tell your child about sex? Just do whatever you want, son or daughter, it’s your body…doesn’t matter. I don’t think you’d be that type of dad (or mom, I’m not sure are you male?
Just food for your thoughts.
That is a very christian thing to say to 1,321,851,888 chinese persons.(July 2007 est.)
Murder is a legal term. You are simply wrong.
To take this a step further, why is murder wrong? If there is no God there are no commandments or moral laws, why can’t we all just murder each other at will without any consequences?