Just because someone happens to disagree with abortion being made the norm, doesn’t make that person a fanatical christian, or religious fanatic. I think the concept of abortion goes against humanity if any thing else, the religious side is something else… way way over there >>>
Of course you’re right. The extremist religious right tries to co-opt it as one of their exclusive issues, though.
That way they can point to everybody else and mutter "Godless liberal atheists."
I know liberals, atheists, and liberal atheists who are against abortion.
Of course you’re right. The extremist religious right tries to co-opt it as one of their exclusive issues, though.
That way they can point to everybody else and mutter "Godless liberal atheists."
I know liberals, atheists, and liberal atheists who are against abortion.
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In my opinion, all evolutionists should be anti-abortion.
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You will find pro life atheists and pro choice Christians. Live life in the mainstream and ignore the lunatic fringe is my credo.
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Every menstruation rejects an egg. Every masturbation wastes sperm. We are all doomed!
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I am a Christian, and I stand up for babies in the womb, because God created those babies in the womb, and their is life. However, that said, even if I was not a Christian I still would be pro-life because you are right it is against humanity, since babies are human!
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? whether you are against abortion for any religion is ignorant. Its not your choice to make. So please stop telling someone ELSE what they can do with their life, or with their little embryo that everyone is so sensitive about.
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Doesn’t it depend on the situation? Sometimes aborting can be the most humane thing to do.
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I’m not really sure why. Maybe because whether one chooses to be for or against abortion, they are demonstrating their moral principals. High morality is most associated with religious beliefs.
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The religious are rarely thinking creatures, but neither are those who wish to foist their personal morality upon the world.
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because most people who speak out are religious
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Please calm down… I think whoever said that is stupid for caring so much about this anyway. It really doesn’t matter what your religious beliefs are just because you are Pro-life. And I think you just want to express how bad you hate being thought of as religious so you post a question that is ridiculous in every way just so your Atheist friends can sympathize with you.
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Because a lot anti abortionists are fundamentalist Christians who adopt it as one of their policies, people immediately assume you are religious if you are against abortion. Atheists can be against abortion, not being religious doesn’t mean you don’t have morals, abortion is still killing in some people’s eyes, and it doesn’t matter what beliefs you hold to believe it is wrong.
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Exactly, I am as non-religious as it gets and absolutely despise abortion.
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I know there is atheists who are anti-choice.
I am not.
Atheist.
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I have an atheist friend who is against abortion, And I’m an atheist for abortion.
I think that aborting is better than being forced to have a child you aren’t going to take care of or just throw in an orphanage.
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For me, my belief in pro-right has nothing to do with religion. Sometimes you just research, learn and accept that this is the way you see things. Religion doesn’t have to enter into it. I am pro the right of people to make their own choice. And it’s the law.
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When somebody’s argument is basically weak and they can’t express their own originally thought out convictions they usually drag in religion.
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I think that most people who are active in the pro-life movement are religious. Nevertheless, I agree with you. In fact, I wish that this issue did not get so caught up in religious stuff.
Anthony, I consider myself a "freethinker" and I am pro-life. Thanks for generalizing, though.
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I don’t approve of abortion used as a convince, although it is something a woman should have as an option. It is not up to me to judge. Just because I wouldn’t do it doesn’t mean I have the right to make another practice my beliefs.
It is seen as religious because of the sanctity of life. A fetus is seen as the creation of God and needs to be protected.
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Because believing that abortion should be available on demand is an article in the unpublished creed, which every "free thinker" is required to assent to, but which none of them will admit the existence of.
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It’s normal to grieve a pregnancy loss, including the loss of a child by abortion. It can form a hole in one’s heart, a hole so deep that sometimes it seems nothing can fill the emptiness.
Some women, on their own or with professional help, are able to get beyond their grief, and find a measure of peace after abortion.
But other women continue to feel isolated and alone in their sadness, regret, anger and self-recrimination.
For over 25 years, women and men have been coming to Project Rachel, the post-abortion ministry of the Catholic Church, for help in healing their emotional and spiritual wounds. The priests and counselors in the Project Rachel network understand the pain and loss that follow abortion. They have led thousands of grieving women and men from despair to hope and peace.
Project Rachel has trained priests and professional counselors who can help you to heal spiritually and emotionally, no matter what faith tradition is yours.
If you are hurting because of abortion, we invite you to begin this journey. Call your local Project Rachel or similar ministry. If the number is not listed in the phone book, call the diocesan chancery (usually listed under ‘Catholic Diocese of _______’ or use directory assistance). The “Where to Find Help” button on this page will take you to a national map. By clicking on your state, contact information for the nearest Project Rachel locations will appear. Or call the National Office of Post-Abortion Reconciliation and Healing at 800.5WE.CARE.
http://www.hopeafterabortion.com/hope.cfm?sel=intro
Abortion as Pagan Sacrifice
We know what the word “sacrifice” means. It means the surrender of something precious to the god in whom a person believes. Sacrifices have been part of world religions since the dawn of recorded history. Without exception, the deities of all the religions of the ancient world demanded sacrifices in their honor. The Egyptians and Babylonians, the Greeks and Romans, the deities of pre-Christian India and of the continent of Africa required that their adherents offer what we call sacrifices in their name.
What is less well known, however, is that these religions also required the sacrifice of children as an oblation and even as a condition, for obtaining blessings from the gods. We read in the Office of Readings for today’s Divine Office that the Lord spoke through the prophet Jeremiah, charging the Jews of imitating the pagans in their practice of child homicide. Said the Lord, “They have built high places for Baal to immolate their sons in fire as holocausts to Baal: such a thing as I neither commanded nor spoke of, nor did it ever enter my mind.”
As we read statements like foregoing, we ask ourselves: how could human beings be so deluded as to seriously believe that their gods required human sacrifice as a condition for receiving divine favors? The key word is “deluded.” Thirty years of teaching comparative religion has taught me that there is no limit to the irrational, indeed insane, practices that religious mythology will not put into practice as a mandate from the deities in whom they believed. Thus we read in the history of the Aztecs in South America before Columbus that they would kill up to ten thousand children on a major feastday in honor of one of their gods. Although seldom mentioned, infanticide as a religious ritual was practiced in India before its colonization by Great Britain.
We return to the theses that should be explored far beyond the time we can give it in this conference. Abortion as the widespread practice that it has become today is incredibly a religious practice. It is inspired by the evil spirits who, in Christian terms, were and are the malignant deities of paganism. These deities, often goddesses, demanded the sacrifice of children to be propitiated. Unless children were killed and offered to these gods, they would avenge their anger against the people in the most devastating ways.
As believing Catholics, we know that behind the murder of unborn children is the superhuman mind and malevolent will of Satan and his minions. To know this is to also know that only divine power is a match for the demonic power behind abortion. This divine power is the power of the God who became man in order, as He told us, to conquer the devil as master of the world.
http://www.therealpresence.org/archives/Abortion_Euthanasia/Abortion_Euthanasia_005.htm
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THOU SHALT NOT MURDER….IS PART OF OUR BELIEFS..
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