A couple of Matt's loose threads
Phipps, John Phipps@info.pmeh.uiowa.edu
Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:24:28 -0600 (00880511068, F28C10F306F4D011A8B40000C041A1F401EB28@info.pmeh.uiowa.edu)
TIM
WHY, then, would you want to delay a baby's entrance into the wonderful
afterlife? Why would you want a baby to struggle and suffer in the evil
cold world, where it's possible the baby will "lose it's soul" by
becoming an atheist, Satanist, Hitler, or whatever. It seems that if
you loved the baby, you would spare it the suffering, and gaurantee it's
entrance to Heaven by aborting it. To take your belief to it's logical
conclusion, the noble thing would be to conceive as many times as
possible, and abort as many times as possible, because the more times
you do this, the more people will be able to go to Heaven. (You might
want to birth 1 or 2 for the contuation of the species).
PHIPPS
I seem to remember asking Matt Bell this same question maybe a couple of
months ago. If I'm not mistaken, he never did point out a flaw in that
reasoning. Nor did he explain why it was fair to punish adam and eve
for sinning, if they hadn't known the difference between good and evil.
It seems like Matt just stopped responding to threads.
peace,
john phipps