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We
have only to examine the Catholic Encyclopedia to find the answer to that
question. The present Roman Catholic Church hierarchy claims that
life begins at conception, but in their own encyclopedia, they admit that they
don't know what life is or when it begins.
Wouldn't
you think that if anybody would be able to tell us what the word
"Life" means, it
would be the Roman Catholic Church? They are, after all, the
main power brokers behind the so-called "Pro-Life"
movement. Let's go to the online, Catholic
Encyclopedia. and look up the word "Life".
and see what we find.**
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Click on this link if you
have any concern that the Catholic
Encyclopedia is
not official Roman Catholic teachings.
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They offer us
a
six-thousand, four-hundred, and
fifty-four-word (6,454-word) dissertation
on the meaning of this single word, and the definition of "life" is still not
clear. Here's their opening paragraph:
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"The
enigma of life [the
puzzle about what life is]
is still one of the
two or three most difficult problems that face both scientist and philosopher,
and notwithstanding the progress of knowledge during the past twenty-three
hundred years, we do not seem to have advanced appreciably beyond the
position of Aristotle in regard to the main issue.
What
are its [life's]
characteristic manifestations?
What
are its chief forms?
What
is the inner nature of the source of [life's]
vital activity?
How
has life arisen?
Such
are among the chief questions which present themselves with regard to this
subject."
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Where
we would expect to find a definition of life, we find, instead, a list of questions, and then they
offer a six-thousand-plus-word dissertation, giving us opinions and theories going all the
way back to Aristotle. But what we don't find, is a clear definition
of the word "life," and we don't find any answers to the
questions they pose.
In
spite of Roman Catholic Church's public proclamation that life begins at
conception, in the Catholic Encyclopedia (which they, themselves declare to be
Catholic teachings) there is no clear definition of what
life is or when it
begins. In fact, they admit that they simply don't know.
Here's another quote
from the final paragraph of this same 6,454-word
dissertation:
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"Having
thus expounded what we believe to be the teaching of the best science and
philosophy respecting the nature and immediate origin of life, it seems to us
most important to bear constantly in mind that the Catholic Church is committed
to extremely little in the way of positive definite teaching on the subject."
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Are
these the same people who are publicly proclaiming that every time a human egg
and sperm unite, God steps in and, by an
act of instantaneous, supernatural, transcendental magic,. transforms them into a
brand new, never-before-existing, separate, complete, eternal,
everlasting, sovereign, human being? Are these the same people who
propose the use of police power to force everyone to live under the Catholic
religious fairytale regarding when life begins. Are these the same
people who speak publicly about supporting religious freedom?
In
one breath, they tell us: 1) that they don't know what life is, 2)
that life is one of the world's greatest mysteries, 3) that they don't
know "how life has arisen"
and 4) they don't know the "the
inner nature of the source of life's vital activity."
And with the next breath, they defy God's own words in Genesis 2:7. of the
Christian Bible and peddle an antiquated fairytale about God being involved
in a conception-magic act: 1) as
if it were a scientifically proven fact, 2) as if it were God's Divine Truth,
and 3) as if there were absolutely no other
possibilities..
The
story about God's
conception magic act. has absolutely no evidence to support
it. Even the United States Supreme Court could not find any
research data or any factual evidence to support this belief. It
denies the religious freedom a million of Christians who believe the Christian
Bible is correct when in Genesis 2:7.
it clearly states that life begins with the first breath. It flies
in the face of billions (that's billions with a "b") of people
who believe that humans are eternal divine beings.
It originated somewhere in the neighborhood of
fifteen to nineteen hundred years ago and has been handed down to us,
unchanged for centuries. It's the brain child of our ancient, superstitious
ancestors who believed the Earth was flat like a three layered cake with
God, an angry, vindictive, fickle, superhuman being, living on a
cloud in the sky, Earth in the middle, and Satan in a
hellfire-and-damnation pit below their feet. It's also the
core belief. upon which the entire anti-abortion war is based.
The
hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church is right now, today, as you read this,
pressuring senators, congressmen and other government officials to create
secular laws based on this unprovable fairytale. They also
endorse and encourage gun-toting government agents to enforce those laws, first by
intimidation, and if intimidation doesn't work, the Roman Catholic church
hierarch endorses sending men with guns and tear gas to your home to do whatever
is necessary, including smashing down your front door with a
battering ram,
invade your private home with tear gas, arresting you with handcuffs, and
putting you in jail for refusing to live by secular laws based entirely on this religious
fairytale.
Are these the same
people who speak publicly about following the Bible and about supporting religious freedom?
Do these people even even know what the word "hypocrisy".
means?
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What
can we make of this?
To anyone with a lick of common sense,
it's either
religious insanity,
intentional deception,
the makings of a disguised fascist police state,
or simply mindless gibberish.
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