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[–] afraid_of_zombies 36 points 10 months ago (9 children)

Hmm here is an idea. What if we made a religion that was against open carry and was technically Christianity? Could we use the veto power religion now has over the Bill of Rights?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago (8 children)

No. Religious arguments against abortion are actually relying on the definition of what constitutes a life, not the pure fact that their religion says it's wrong.

You can get out of military service this way though.

[–] rambaroo 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How is that any different? It's still their religion that says when life begins. Other abrahamic religions do not believe that life starts at conception.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

While the argument for life beginning at conception can be rooted in religious texts, it can also be based on the desire for simplicity of argument.

I.e. not wanting to pick a random day during the term of the pregnancy to serve as a cutoff point, because the development of a fetus doesn't have a convenient place where you can say "5 minutes ago, this thing wasn't alive. Now it is. "

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