"Paul C. Smith" wrote:
Those are exactly the people I'm talking about - dishonest folks
hiding behind religion. It's important that honest religious persons
recognize the harm done to religion _by that kind of person_.
Not by me. The child-beater you described, the creationist, the homophobe, the
right-to-lifer - they're all hiding behind the shields
we quite rightly provide to the honest believer. In my opinion, religious belief is
not an excuse for unethical
behavior.
**Paul, I'm not religious, and I happen to favor "choice" when
**it comes to the abortion issue. However, I don't think it's fair
**to lump all right-to-lifers in with the same pool as those with
**contradictory (hypocritical, dishonest) behaviors such as child
**beaters and (some) homophobes. If someone's religious
**doctrine forbids the taking of any "life" (whether born,
**zygotic, or what have your) then there is nothing inherently
**evil or dishonest or wrong with them opposing abortion and
**working to rid the world of it.
**There IS scientific evidence for evolution that can be willfully **and dishonestly
ignored. There is no such evidence that
**abortion is to be supported OR vilified.
**Mike
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Michael J. Kane
Psychology Department
Georgia State University
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Atlanta, GA 30303-3083
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"It is morally as bad not to care whether a thing
is true or not, so long as it makes you feel good,
as it is not to care how you got your money as
long as you have it."
-- E.W. Teale
