re: #382 DaddyG

I’ve had seven children and passed biology class. There is definately something magical about the creation of a life even on a biological level.

(Yeah I know what you mean by magical…) and I’m being a bit obtuse, but the creation of life is not something to be treated casually IMO. Some sensitivity to those who those who do would go a longer way towards understanding.

Telling a Catholic or Evangelical a potential life is “just cells” is as in your face as them telling you your “going to hell”.

But I promise not to get too bent out of shape over it.

A philosophical difference of opinion about the nature of life is a little different than promising someone torment in the afterlife. And telling someone they’re going to hell often brings with it a whole lot of other baggage (cough OMG GAY cough) a lot of creepy tribalism. A lot pof people secure enough in their own philosophy that they’re convinced those who disagree with them will literally go to a place of eternal torment? Very bizarre to me. it’s not something done in polite company, you don’t talk about people being tormented when you’re being civil.

If an athiest says a human life is just cells, and that athiest is incredibly studied on philosophy, would you still claim they’re treating it casually?

What if they come to that conclusion after months of deliberation?