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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
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Subject: Re: Christians getting it wrong
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2024 18:53:47 -0000 (UTC)
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BTR1701 <no_email@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>>The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
>>>Sat, 6 Apr 2024 16:17:16 -0000 (UTC), Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com>:

>>>>You're missing my point. The people who want to impose religion upon
>>>>civil life want to do so through legislation and the courts, and they
>>>>have failed at times, succeeded at other times.

>>>As well they should have.
 
>>Laws restricting or making abortion illegal are an example of success in
>>imposing religion in civil life.

>Only if you believe it's impossible to believe abortion is murder unless
>you also believe in religion/god/supernatural etc.

Unless some state finally got a law passed defining human life beginning
at conception, then no homicide has taken place. If it's not homicide,
then it's not murder.

By making it conditional upon what I believe instead of legal precepts,
you lost the argument. "What I believe" is religion.