If I strongly believe that every baby is born as a boy, and only after three years a tiny little piece of half of the babies will fall off, and they become girls; there is not one biologist on this planet who will respect my beliefs.
Those beliefs will be laughed at, ridiculed and mocked. Those beliefs are harmless...
Well, unless 200 million others start to believe the same thing, write a book about it, claim it's God's work, the beliefs will become valid in our laws and every newborn baby girl will be looked at as evil. Then, all of a sudden it's a religious belief that needs to be respected.
Yes, I know this is a ridiculous example. Let's do another one. Just as ridiculous.
If I were to believe that a God pushes a soul into a clumb of cells, and with that calls that same clumb of cells 'life', and I would get 200 million people to believe the same nonsense, is that a valid basis to create a law that forbids stem-cell research?
2007-05-02
15:08:09
·
9 answers
·
asked by
?
6
in
Religion & Spirituality