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dwashbur
who has called for the execution of women who have abortions or for adulteresses but not adulterers? You say that this is true of "many prominent evangelicals", so surely you can name some of them. Even more to the point, other than a few scattered radicals (if there are any), has any prominent evangelical organization called for such actions?
Bakker and Falwell, to name just a couple. I suggest you look it up.
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Please explain how science tells us that murder, rape, bank robbery, theft, lying under oath, and many other actions should be illegal.
Circular reasoning. You assume that the thing we're talking about is a crime and you equate it with others without any evidence. This is a purely emotional statement intended to stir emotions rather than convey information.
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1. Your statement is a moral value. What science backs it up? 2. There is a vast body of law that tells us what we cannot do to another human being. Do those laws also invade another person's "nose"? Should a woman's rights over her own body end at her unborn child's "nose"?
Once again this is circular reasoning. The question is when a fetus becomes a human being, but you assume the answer that you prefer and use it to judge everyone else. And my statement is a constitutional one as well as a biblical one. Read what Paul said about freedom. Your freedom doesn't give you the right to tell someone else what to do with their body. That's sinning against another person.
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Not following you on that one
I confess that genuinely surprises me. Let's try again. You told Athos
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It amounts to asking others to believe something to be true for no other reason than that the writer believes it to be true.
Then you turned around and did exactly that when you said
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But if you are genuinely opposed to unjust killings, then you will come out today in opposition to the unjust and cruel killings of hundreds of thousands of unborn human beings every year.
You are asking us to believe that a fetus is an "unborn human being" simply because you believe it. Many people don't, they consider it a "potential human being" but not a full person yet. Those people have at least as much science on their side as you have, in fact they have more. But you want us to believe the way you do simply because you believe it.
That's the same thing you said Athos was doing. I hope that clears it up.
And you dodged the fact that your statements are religious, not scientific, and thus have no place in lawmaking.