Pro-Life Syllogism

I have leapfrogged this article in its entirety, with a word correction, from Atheism Analyzed by Stan who highlighted it from the original post, the blog, Scientiam Dei:

Here is Francis J. Beckwith's pro-life syllogism:

1. The unborn entity, from the moment of conception, is a full-fledged member of the human community*.
2. It is prima facie morally wrong to [murder] any member of that community.
3. Every successful abortion [murders] an unborn entity, a full-fledged member of the human community.
4. Therefore, every successful abortion is prima facie morally wrong.¹

*Support for Premise 1.


¹ Found in: Scott Klusendorf, The Case for Life: Equipping Christians to Engage the Culture (Wheaton: Crossway Books, 2009) p. 29. Originally from: Francis J. Beckwith, Defending Life: A Moral and Legal Case Against Abortion Choice (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007).

Stan adds, "To deny that every human - every human - went through the prenatal stages of human life including the division of cells and all embryo stages can be seen as nothing short of dishonest. To claim the moral authority to determine which stage of human life they think is acceptable to [murder] is an onerous claim. The idea that Atheism is more empathetic is absurd, unless the value of human life is discounted in advance, and the Atheist is elevated beyond his actual position as just another human, not a moral judge or determiner of life and death for other innocent humans.

No excuse can defeat the fact that human life always starts with cell division and that killing those cells kills a human life at that particular stage. This is not defeated by any appeal to the condition of the mother, the ability of the embryo to feel pain, or any other rationalized permission to [murder] the human at that stage, and only in a triage situation can such decisions be made which would kill the embryo or mother with moral impunity.

The much vaunted Atheist "empathy" has not been extended to the more than 50,000,000 humans [murdered] by abortion in the United States. "

I am sure you will notice that I changed the 'kills' to "murder" as to be more accurate and truthful.

I found it completely telling that Stan was able to articulate the exact arguments I hear daily, on this blog or in my group, from the Atheists. How can a worldview, a position that stands on an argument from incredulity, possibly be so sure?

This post was almost a Déjà vu as a few days ago I asked in the group: Are you absolutely certain that is NOT a person inside of the woman deserving rights and freedoms as any other person? If so, how are you absolutely certain?

UPDATE: this post is on the heals of a new video released just today revealing Planned Parenthood encouraging  Sex-Selective Abortions like China, from Live Action.

Tu Quoque

I cannot think of a better example of this fallacy presenting itself from the Atheistic worldview then this most recent debate I listened to with Sye Ten Bruggencate and some more Atheists, this time Daniel Mathers & Andrew Schulte. I do like these two Atheists, so I post this with kid gloves.

Some definitions for the two Atheists:

knowledge (n)--the fact or state of knowing; the perception of fact or truth; clear and certain mental apprehension.

know (v)--1. To perceive or understand as fact or truth; to apprehend clearly and with certainty. 2. To be cognizant or aware of. 

I applaud the conversation and honesty. Of course, our prayers go out for these two Atheists. Hopefully, their "inquiries will give them a better tomorrow" by repenting and turn from rejecting the God they know exists, and accept the free gift of Jesus Christ's payment for their sins and reasoning. 

Atheist Tactics

OK, where do I start? I thought of naming this post "cognitive dissonance" because of the actions of an Atheist and his fanboy recently.

To catch you up, "Batman" and his "Robin" demanded unfairly that Sye could not use his own voice from the Skype conversation that they had, for any purpose. But "Batman and Robin" proclaimed they could use it freely on their blogs, podcast, and YouTube, as they did. So a couple of people did use it and and they immediately sent YouTube's Lawyers, and legal team, after the people that posted Sye's voice in that Skype conversation with a DMCA take-down notice. So since others used it, and so did "Batman and Robin", Sye posted it too. It was forced to be taken down also by YouTube's default position of taking it down immediately, if complained about, until it can be contested in court.

So "Batman" is a huge fan of censorship, restricting, eliminating, and hypocrisy. This is his M.O.