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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is actually part of why I'm no longer religious. I realize the following is reasoning that psychotic people use when killing their children, but to my mind they are only following their religion's teachings to their logical conclusion.

So ok, the Catholic church is pro-life in the sense that all life, from conception to death, is sacred. They are anti-abortion, and they are anti-death penalty. At least on this point they are consistent. And for people on death row, the feeling is that they could at some point repent of their sins and avoid going to hell. If you kill them before they've had every chance to repent that God would have otherwise granted them during their lifetime, you may be taking away that chance. That's a pretty severe consequence if you believe in hell.

But where it falls apart for me is saying we shouldn't abort just in case the "ensoulment" happens at conception. Ok, well let's say it did (do identical twins share a soul, I wonder?). You've aborted an ensouled being. A mortal sin for you, perhaps, but the consequence for the embryo? People used to theorize about limbo since the embryo is unbaptized, but that's not too popular of a concept these days. The official line is that it's a mystery and we hope for God's mercy. However, I think most believe they'd go to heaven given their innocence. I'm not sure many people would worship a God they thought would condemn anyone so blameless to eternal woe. They can't feel pain, they go straight to heaven - seems like a pretty good deal to me![/quote]

Why are you talking about religiosity in general when your example is solely about the Catholic Church?[/quote]

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