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To: strela
The "right to life" is man's invention, not God's.

That's the wrong perspective. Death is inevitible for everybody, after all.

The context in considering a "right to life" should be what prohibits an earthly power from willfully and arbitrarily taking the life of an individual.

148 posted on 10/17/2002 9:22:27 PM PDT by Tribune7
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To: Tribune7
The "right to life" is man's invention, not God's.

That's the wrong perspective. Death is inevitible for everybody, after all.

How is it "wrong"? While you correctly state that death is indeed inevitable, you submit no evidence that there is any flaw in my statement that the "right to life" is a man-made construct and idea, and has nothing to do with God. On the contrary, you help make my case for me.

The context in considering a "right to life" should be what prohibits an earthly power from willfully and arbitrarily taking the life of an individual.

The old saying "Whatever gets you through the day" leaps to mind here. I don't kill others because the consequences brought upon me by other earthly powers for doing so would be unacceptable to me, and because I don't need to and have no desire to. If the mental image of some stern-faced guy sitting on a cloud shaking His finger at you is the only thing that prevents you from killing others, then you have the perfect right to use that mental image as your justification. Just don't try to make a "logical" case that all people feel the same way as you do, and that your stern-faced, angry guy in the clouds exists anywhere than in your own mind.

157 posted on 10/18/2002 5:39:15 AM PDT by strela
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