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Bible isn’t a basis of law, it wasn’t written to be one either. If the child cannot feel, think, or…
Because regardless, the law restraining things based off of what is a sin directly encroaches upon the capacity for someone to even choose right or wrong in a victimless manner. If we made every sin illegal, where’s the choice to not do it in the first place? That’s the basis of the Christian gospel, it must be chosen, not forced, and its moral values do not speak for everyone, nor is it even built or stated to do so. Nationalizing religion is a perversion of its purpose, and a failure of trust in faith itself, opting to enforce it based on one’s own religious opinions that can be strongly influenced by bad faith churches. These morals inside it will not be accepted by everyone regardless, and confining it to a book’s teachings defiles the choice of the people themselves to reject it. The very authoritarian tendencies you accuse me of would be a requirement in order to enforce policies such as religious morals at the head of government. Nations can’t be forced not to sin, but they can and should be forced not to kill. You’ve claimed before that the government shouldn’t be making decisions that are meant to “save” people from themselves, yet the moras of the Bible would require enforcement that would do precisely that. When did the doctrine of the Bible turn from “live and let live” to “I’m right, you’re wrong, I’m in power, and your morals are outweighed by mine”?
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You've committed the Strawman Fallacy (again!) attacking a position I never claimed to hold (that every sin should be illegal). Rather, what I said was the the MURDER OF THE UNBORN should be illegal. I never said I was in favour of government banning things like insulting people, hitting people, and excluding people – I said I was in favour of government preventing the shedding of innocent blood. Quite a difference, that.
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You said, and I quote “why should we not base important laws off the truths therein?” That’s an extremely vague statement, which was said in the manner of a wide range of “important laws”, which could easily encompass a wider breadth than just abortion. When laws favor a religion’s beliefs, especially when written in the context of the Bible (as our conversation was previously referring to), that destroys the choice of which society can work. In regards to abortion, the Bible has said NOTHING even remotely close to stating that abortion isn’t allowed,… Read more
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"I knit you together in your mother's womb" says something else. And no, abortion was not a widespread practise in ancient Israel – only a fringe minority of Death Cultists ever practised it.
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Doesn’t state that it still has the same moral value as the mother, merely that life is formed inside the womb, bug surprise. It never once says anything about abortion, that alone makes the argument of Bible based pro-life laws rather shaky.
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The Bible says that "You shall not murder" and “Whoever takes a human life shall surely be put to death." And "As you do not know the way the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child." Plus the verse you quoted about a man hitting a pregnant woman – when it said he shall pay a fine, it was only on the condition that NO HARM was caused to either the woman or the child. The quotation was taken way out of context to suit your narrative.