[HumanaeVitae]

Really?

Explain your standard for human judgement? For instance, in China it is a common practice to drown infant girls. Boys are the preferred children.

Why is this wrong?

[andy_card]

Explain your standard for human judgement? For instance, in China it is a common practice to drown infant girls. Boys are the preferred children.

Because it is wrong to cause injury to another human being. That's a moral standard that most people would choose to subscribe to, regardless of religion or the lack thereof. In certain circumstances, it may be necessary to cause injury, if only to prevent greater harm.

[whattajoke]

For instance, in China it is a common practice to drown infant girls. Boys are the preferred children. Why is this wrong?

Believe it or not, HV, even we atheists agree with you christians that yes, drowning newborn girls is wrong. We are all adults and can, believe it or not, discern right from wrong with out the bible telling us so. (then again, the bible tells me this: Deuteronomy 21:18-21 - "If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son.... bring him unto the elders of his city.... And all the men of the city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you..."And this, "Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones." - Psalm 137:9 But that's "out of context," of course.)

Christians have that innate ability to pick and choose like none other (well, and the Islamic terrorists that miss that part in the Qu'ran about how killing innocents is pretty much the worst thing one can do.