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And you have nothing but your own belief.

You have a right to feel however you do about it. But so does everyone else. Your feelings do not usurp theirs. And feelings are not facts. Sometimes we need to rely on facts when our feelings tend to mislead us. Keeping people as you describe is a luxury our society can afford. But not all...

You can't seem to let go of the idea that a fetus is a "baby". A fetus becomes a baby at some point in the process of gestational development. But we don't know exactly when that occurs, or how to determine that it has, and so we don't all agree with your presumptions about it. Thinking you're...

I would say that cognizant autonomy is a very important factor. And I don't know when that occurs in humans. Maybe not even until after we're born.

Yes. The same way fetuses get "high" when their mothers get "high". Something the anti-abortion crowd never mentions.

I agree that 5 months is probably too late. In fact, that has been the cut-off for a legal abortion for many decades (20-22 weeks). But keep in mind that an ability to move in the womb does not necessarily indicate the presence of all the factors needed to define a human being. And that most of...

The inclination to do evil exists in all of us. And in all expressions of politics, commerce, and religiosity. And I think it's important to try and recognize how this occurs.

That's a very good argument, but it's only an argument based on our ignorance. Which does not give it the weight necessary for you to impose your conclusions on everyone else. Also, we have the benefit of anesthesia, now, so the issue of suffering is not pertinent.

Only if all they believed in was that he rose from the dead. Which wasn't much of a "faith" to begin with. By the way, Jesus rose from the dead in the story, not "Christ". Christ refers to a state of being, not to the person that achieved it. That's a very childish requirement you have, there...

Jesus didn't come to make us righteous. He came to show us how to transcend our unrighteousness.

Belief is not truth.

Neither can you or anyone else. Welcome to the human condition, where you have to determine for yourself what you hope to be the truth, and then live by that truth, in faith, to find out. Because you don't get to know in advance.

A human being is not defined simply by having a body.

I understand that I can and will be wrong about a great many things in life. It's inevitable, as I am neither omniscient nor am I trying to embody perfection. I don't presume to ever possess either of these. They are conditions belonging to a realm far beyond the one I inhabit. So all I can do...

It doesn't breathe until it's forced to. It doesn't feel pain until it has a sufficiently developed nervous system and brain to interpret the nerve signals as 'pain'. And we don't actually know when these occur fully enough to be considered this 'horrible suffering' that you are ascribing to a...

My answer is that your questions are irrelevant. It matters not at all to me which parts of the story (or of any story) are historically true and which parts are fictionalized embellishments. Because factuality is not why these stories are created, told, written, and saved for posterity. Like...

I'm not going to argue with your Bible-based fantasies. There's nothing to be gained by it. I stated that Moses is a character in a story. Which is evident and obvious to anyone that bothers to look up the story. How you choose to interpret the story is your own business.

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It's heartbreaking that you have so fully lost sight of that spirit within yourself that you now think it doesn't exist in anyone.

Look in the Bible, and find the story of the exodus, and the character in the story called "Moses". Yep, I'm sure. Moses is one of the characters in that story.