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Person-in-da-hood: How pro-choicers have moved the goal posts

When medical science (most notably, that of DNA strings) decisively and unequivocally demonstrated that, right from the very point of conception, a human life is created, pro-choicers had to abort their more traditional arguments. It is interesting to read in his book, Practical Ethics, that ethicist, animal rights activist and pro-abortionist Peter Singer declared that the conservative pro-life position on the subject of abortion came up trumps. It is no longer an argument about potency - that the fertilised egg had the potential to become a human being - it was proven that from the instant human sperm penetrates a human egg that nothing other than a human being is produced.

In his book, Mr Singer admits that pro-lifers have the upper hand - to abort a child at… Continue reading Person-in-da-hood: How pro-choicers have moved the goal posts

Quote: The morality of conscience

Conscience is what enables man to rise above being a prisoner of his inclinations … Conscience enables us to go beyond what feels good and to do what is right

Dinesh D’Souza, What’s So Great About Christianity, Regnery Publishing 2007… Continue reading Quote: The morality of conscience

Cartoon: Moral standards and hypocrisy

I saw this cartoon up on CrossExamined Blog and had to share it here.

How high are your moral standards?

There is a whole series of posts/articles in this one cartoon alone, don’t you agree?

It also illustrates the standpoint that I believe most critics of Christians/Christianity take - they look at the sins Christians commit and then label them hypocrites for doing them as it violates God’s moral standards. Yet, any good Christian already knows he is hypocritical to the core by that definition … what else do you think the story of the Gospel about?!…