re: #68 gocart mozart

Reading the comments was actually educational on this one, because I picked up an argument I will use on the murderous pro-lifers at Apologia Church the next time I’m out there.

Any biologist will tell you that life does not “begin.” That’s a religious concept not a scientific one. Humans like all other living organisms have an unbroken cycle of life stretching back billions of years to the dawn of life on earth.

Humans like other mammals simply have two life stages in their cycle. The haploid stage (sperm and eggs) and the diploid stage (adult humans). Other organisms have 3 or 4 different stages in their life cycle such as insects (egg, larva, adult).

By any scientific definition, sperm and eggs are alive and human life never “begins” it is an endless cycle of life.

As for chance, we are of course all the consequence of billions of possible random combinations of sperm and eggs. Had our parents mated in the slightest different way or copulated 0.01 seconds earlier or later a different individual would have resulted.

Life is a continuum…cells are alive, no?…don’t you worry about the personhood of all that sperm you unload on a regular basis…? That and pushing them on how they want the state to murder women who have abortions.

For the record, I was not a nice person yesterday. I dropped several F-bombs (F OFF) when the pastor brought up Hitler as an example of secular law gone awry. I’m sorry, but that’s not even an argument. I also told a woman who told me she would pray for my salvation that she should pray that she not be an asshat. Yeah, I got chewed out, but you know, they already think I’m going to burn in hell, so why should I conform to their views?

Besides, their views suck. They believe the way you demonstrate you’re saved is by showing the fruits of the Spirit and keeping the commandments. Since I cuss and call their Calvinist god evil, I obviously do not have the fruit of the spirit nor do I keep the commandments.* I pointed out to one guy that Paul used the word skubala (which means “shit”) at one point (Philippians 3:8) to express his complete disgust with righteousness that comes with keeping the law. I am not saying I agree with Paul (in fact, I’ve come to the conclusion that a lot of epistles sound like modern-day theological whining on Facebook), but I did exuberantly point out that Paul did use a ‘bad word’. Several times.

*In my personal religious view, their reliance on personal actions to demonstrate salvation is just making up their own set of laws and I am not going to have any of that. Paul might argue that they’re back to keeping the Law and he didn’t think that was such a great thing.