Re: Christians getting it wrong

BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

On Apr 7, 2024 at 4:34:36 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

Apr 7, 2024 at 11:53:47 AM PDT, Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

BTR1701 <no_email@invalid.invalid> wrote:

Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:

Sat, 6 Apr 2024 16:17:16 -0000 (UTC), Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com>:

You're missing my point. The people who want to impose religion upon
civil life want to do so through legislation and the courts, and they
have failed at times, succeeded at other times.

As well they should have.

Laws restricting or making abortion illegal are an example of success in
imposing religion in civil life.

Only if you believe it's impossible to believe abortion is murder unless
you also believe in religion/god/supernatural etc.

Unless some state finally got a law passed defining human life beginning
at conception, then no homicide has taken place. If it's not homicide,
then it's not murder.

The point is, it doesn't take a belief in a supernatural sky-tyrant for a
state to make the determination that life begins at conception.

 

HUMAN life

Doesn't change anything. No belief in supernatural ghosts is required for a
legislature to make that determination.

That's your hypothetical! That's not literally what's happening in real
world actual state legislatures!

Since common law, an unborn child cannot inherit, and only a child born
alive inherits. No one recognized that human life began at conception.
It was never the law.

That doesn't mean the law can't change absent a belief in Quetzalcoatl.