XPost: alt.atheism, alt.abortion   
   From: someone@somewhere.invalid   
      
   Now that "J" has fired up his drivel-spewing bot again, it occurs to me   
   that the religionists who object to abortion are the victims of deception   
   on two levels.  Regardless of whatever rights you believe a fetus has, it   
   certainly does NOT have the right to invade a woman's body against her   
   will, and commandeer her organ systems for its own use.  The fact that   
   the fetus needs the woman's body to survive is irrelevant.  That's like   
   saying that a stranger on the street with kidney failure has a right to   
   use one of your kidneys against your will.   
      
   When you try to explain that painfully obvious fact to many religionists,   
   they shut off the rational part of their brain, and start repeating the   
   arguments coming from their church leaders.  They talk about the fetus's   
   "right to life", and other such unevidenced assertions.   
      
   What is doubly ironic is that the Bible, in all of its thousands of   
   pages, never even condemns abortion to begin with!  Make no mistake, the   
   Bible condemns a LOT of things: eating shellfish, wearing clothing made   
   of two different types of fabric, etc, etc.  Most of which we ignore.   
   One thing it doesn't condemn is abortion, and religionists act like it's   
   written in capital letters on page one.   
      
   Go figure.  It's just more evidence that religiosity is inversely related   
   to rationality.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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