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This story is entirely hypothetical...

What if I have a kid, say, three years old, who has been very annoying to me and my wife of late. I begin to regret not aborting the little sniveler, and decide to strangle him to death, seeing no reason why it matters if I had killed him before he was born, or after. Was my (hypothetical) decision and action wrong?
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Re: what are you?

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bluethread wrote:
Goat wrote:
Overcomer wrote: I think it depends on whether you're an atheist or a Christian.

If you're a Christian, you know that all life is sacred and comes from God. Therefore, all human beings have value, including your child. Therefore, you would love and protect your child.

If you're an atheist and you think we're all just accidents of nature, then what would make that child more important than a housefly or an earthworm? In that case, the child becomes truly dispensable.

Of course, you could be an atheist who borrows his value system from Christianity and then you would behave as a Christian and love and protect your child and never even consider getting rid of him.
Then, isn't it amazing how many atheists love and protect their child more than some Christians do? One of my friends is gay, and volunteers at the local gay community center. There are a number of kids that come in that are 16 or 17 that were kicked out of the Christian parents house because they were gay.

Can you just imagine that?
So, parents are required to accept responsibility when their children become sexually active, even if they have made it clear that they oppose that activity?
So, disciplining kids mean kicking them out of the house at age 16? Is that what you are saying?

Or , tossing them out, because they are attracted to someone to the same sex, even if they are not active? Is that what you are saying?
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bluethread wrote:
Goat wrote:
Overcomer wrote: I think it depends on whether you're an atheist or a Christian.

If you're a Christian, you know that all life is sacred and comes from God. Therefore, all human beings have value, including your child. Therefore, you would love and protect your child.

If you're an atheist and you think we're all just accidents of nature, then what would make that child more important than a housefly or an earthworm? In that case, the child becomes truly dispensable.

Of course, you could be an atheist who borrows his value system from Christianity and then you would behave as a Christian and love and protect your child and never even consider getting rid of him.
Then, isn't it amazing how many atheists love and protect their child more than some Christians do? One of my friends is gay, and volunteers at the local gay community center. There are a number of kids that come in that are 16 or 17 that were kicked out of the Christian parents house because they were gay.

Can you just imagine that?
So, parents are required to accept responsibility when their children become sexually active, even if they have made it clear that they oppose that activity?
Accepting responsibility is what all should do, in order that we live in a harmonious civilization.
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