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How much respect do you have for women facing the ordeal of an unplanned and unwanted pregnancy? Or for all of your fellow citizens that believe an individual's right to choose what happens within their own bodies is more important than your desire to dictate morality to everyone? The problem...

Why do you think an unwanted fetus is considered "lifeless"? Me either. I just know it's possible.

We have been given the tools. The way to salvation. But we have not yet implemented them, nor achieved the goal. And we never will so long as we keep telling ourselves how righteous we are. Possible, and yet none of us has so far managed it. I shouldn't say that. We do manage it to some...

Actually, we humans have no idea where or how life originated, human or otherwise. All we have are some theories, and some people like you who think they know, but don't.

But that all depends on who desires to procreate with whom. Everything is part of the chain of cause and effect. Where you decide to draw a starting or finish line is just your own subjective choice. Saying it (believing it) doesn't make it so. No matter how much you 'bluster' about it, this...

Is that where we 'start'? Or maybe we start with the desire to procreate? Or maybe we started with the advent of life on Earth? Or ultimately it all started with the 'big bang'. In a universe of cause and effect, where things 'start' becomes pretty subjective. Same for where things 'end'.

And you have nothing but your own belief.

You have a right to feel however you do about it. But so does everyone else. Your feelings do not usurp theirs. And feelings are not facts. Sometimes we need to rely on facts when our feelings tend to mislead us. Keeping people as you describe is a luxury our society can afford. But not all...

You can't seem to let go of the idea that a fetus is a "baby". A fetus becomes a baby at some point in the process of gestational development. But we don't know exactly when that occurs, or how to determine that it has, and so we don't all agree with your presumptions about it. Thinking you're...

I would say that cognizant autonomy is a very important factor. And I don't know when that occurs in humans. Maybe not even until after we're born.

Yes. The same way fetuses get "high" when their mothers get "high". Something the anti-abortion crowd never mentions.

I agree that 5 months is probably too late. In fact, that has been the cut-off for a legal abortion for many decades (20-22 weeks). But keep in mind that an ability to move in the womb does not necessarily indicate the presence of all the factors needed to define a human being. And that most of...

The inclination to do evil exists in all of us. And in all expressions of politics, commerce, and religiosity. And I think it's important to try and recognize how this occurs.

That's a very good argument, but it's only an argument based on our ignorance. Which does not give it the weight necessary for you to impose your conclusions on everyone else. Also, we have the benefit of anesthesia, now, so the issue of suffering is not pertinent.

Only if all they believed in was that he rose from the dead. Which wasn't much of a "faith" to begin with. By the way, Jesus rose from the dead in the story, not "Christ". Christ refers to a state of being, not to the person that achieved it. That's a very childish requirement you have, there...

Jesus didn't come to make us righteous. He came to show us how to transcend our unrighteousness.

Belief is not truth.

Neither can you or anyone else. Welcome to the human condition, where you have to determine for yourself what you hope to be the truth, and then live by that truth, in faith, to find out. Because you don't get to know in advance.

A human being is not defined simply by having a body.

I understand that I can and will be wrong about a great many things in life. It's inevitable, as I am neither omniscient nor am I trying to embody perfection. I don't presume to ever possess either of these. They are conditions belonging to a realm far beyond the one I inhabit. So all I can do...