‘Abortion is wrong whether if you are a believer or not.’
I say ‘amen’ to that; I have become quite agnostic about the concept of deities; I don’t outright deny their existence, I simply find it highly unlikely...if by definition, this causes me to be a secularist (and/or libertarian), then the article is spot on, as the secularist must abide by his views on the equality of status for individuals, and the libertarian must hold to his views on personal freedoms...ipso facto, a secularist/libertarian can’t possibly be anything but pro life (as was dragged out of Chris Hitchens by Dennis Prager in an interesting interview)...
it is beyond belief that someone could criticize the author for defending life because he dared do so upon extra scriptural grounds; the word ‘moron’ is bandied about, and here it applies...
An atheist is someone who believes there is no God because they have seen no evidence to lead them to believe in God.
An agnostic is an atheist who is trying to hedge his bets. :)
If you have seen no evidence of God/s, you shouldn’t believe in Him or them or whatever. Believing without evidence is a very dangerous place to be.
There is no “must abide” by logical arguement for any secularist as there is no higher arching logical authority to govern his or her pre biased thinking.
For the flexibly moral progressive it comes down to cleverly crafted tomes by which he may convince the majority of the simple minded to agree and accede to his point of view and/or to leverage the thinking of those who are trained militarily to enslave or slaughter those who will not bow to his proposed “utopia”. This is the essence of Washington’s warning concerning the “man on horseback”, that citizens, weary of infighting, might be tempted to turn to.
Washington’s advice was that it would be “religion and morality” that would be the “twin pillars” upon which our freedoms should rest.