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To: gcruse
And when you're doing it for God, well, it's positively pious.

Your argument isn't made more persuasive with the use of sarcasm. Burning at the stake was a common form of capital punishment employed by the State during the Middle Ages and, as seen in the posted article, torturing the accused "to death" was not the intent.

But removing a month-old blastocyst from woman's body is murder, by god, and we won't have it.

There's a wee bit difference between burning a culpable criminal at the stake and destroying an innocent child in the earliest stages of development. Of course, to an atheist, there is no point in arguing anything to be morally wrong, as morality is merely a social construct that lacks objectivity...right? If you "became an atheist" because you disliked the Inquisition, you probably need to do a little further examination.

21 posted on 06/16/2004 10:16:24 AM PDT by Fifthmark
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To: Fifthmark
If you "became an atheist" because you disliked the Inquisition,

No, reread what I said.  It is because of 'this kind of stuff.'  In this case,  it is trying to justify pushing superstitious  irrationality onto other people, whether by burning heretics at the stake, torture, or the modern way --  shoehorning 'god' into government.
23 posted on 06/16/2004 10:24:30 AM PDT by gcruse (http://gcruse.typepad.com/)
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