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To: gogogodzilla
G-d, through the words of the Torah, places utmost importance on the value of life.

Accepted - How does that jibe with your prior statement:

[gogogodzilla:] Saving the unborn is more of a 3rd order level of need (after both the physical basics of life are met and safety/security is met). src

There is another thing that YHWH said in passing somewhere:

Exo 20:13 Thou shalt not kill.

...Which, as you have declared from the Gemara:

[...] The three exceptions are the prohibitions of idol worship, illicit sexual relations and murder.

What I don't understand then, is that you would consider 'Saving the unborn' to be anything but a necessity of the highest order?

And as an aside, while I agree with the general tenor of your statements upthread about past Buddhist and Hindu societies (as proof that morals are to some degree universal), It is my assertion that any nation can have but one ethos - One moral definition. In our case that IS (and has been since our inception) the Judeo-Christian ethic. One cannot, IMHO remove that ethical conscience without totally destroying what we are... As the commies already understand.

With that in mind, I find your criticism of the Judeo-Christian ethic to be short sighted.

68 posted on 04/27/2012 3:09:21 PM PDT by roamer_1 (Globalism is just socialism in a business suit.)
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To: roamer_1

What harm do you feel would be done by dropping the “Judeo-” and simply referring to “Christian ethics”, “Christian morality”, etc.


71 posted on 04/28/2012 3:32:18 PM PDT by DNA.2012
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