I cannot believe that 'when the soul enters the body' is actually part of the abortion debate

[Hugh_Lebowski]

220. I'm not trying to force my 'beliefs' onto you Sir Bob ...

I'm simply making my argument for why I've reached the conclusions I've made. Not dictating that 'you must believe like I do', my friend.

Here's a thought exercise to illustrate the point I'm really trying to make.

Let's say, 2,000 years ago, some Germanic nomads wrote a book describing how there was an omniscient, omnipotent, eternal unicorn that lives in the Black Forest that created the earth, and the universe, and life itself ... AND is controlling everything that happens in the universe. Also, every one of us has a magic unicorn living inside of us that was created by the Unicorn God and lives forever!

And when you die, your magic unicorn gets to go live with the Unicorn God in Paradise. If you were nice, of course. If you were mean however, you spend eternity in a cave where a very hostile leprechaun tortures you while he keeps his pot of gold 3 inches away from your grasp. And there are no rainbows there.

And lets say a Church of the Unicorn grew up around it, and it now has millions of adherents who purport to live their lives according to the tenets of the 2,000 year old Holy Book Of The Unicorn.

And let's say that millions of people (including Mr. Lebowski) over that 2000 years have gone to look for the unicorn in the Black Forest. 1000's have claimed they've seen it, and it performed magical acts for them. But not one of them has any actual verifiable proof. No photos, no imprints of tracks, no scat, no unicorn wine that was created from water, etc. Not even other witnesses, it's always ONE person who was there.

When adherents are asked why these millions of excursions have produced no evidence, they say that well ... the Unicorn God is invisible in photos, creates no tracks because it has no weight, doesn't shit, will only ever appear before one person, and magically-created wine is indistinguishable for ordinary wine!

So ... Mr. Lebowski comes along and says "you know what ... looking at the totality of evidence, I'm very convinced that the Unicorn God story is bullshit, and you've all been duped".

Would relayerbob be all ... "You need to keep your mouth shut, cause these people believe in the Unicorn God, and you have no cause to doubt their faith. Just because YOU'VE never seen the Unicorn God, that means nothing! Other people say they've seen it in the forest, so you must NOT disrespect them by casting doubt on their story, cause maybe it was really true?'

Because that would be highly analogous to what you just did in this discussion.

MHO.