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My hair and a dead body have DNA as well. There are additional requirements to be an actual person. As I said, this concentration on DNA looks like a heretical kind of anthropology, though I suspect it’s more an attempted scientific justification of a belief that doesn’t actually come from...

this is surely not a statement about the nature of fetuses. It’s pretty obvious that there’s no way for one to know anything about someone else’s child. Assuming this is literally true, it is miraculous. And it was at least 6 months into the pregnancy anyway.

Yes. I don’t think the government has any business regulating it. The issue is a religious or philosophical. The first amendment says that laws can’t be made on that basis.

Possibly sex is the human form of something in eternity that is even deeper.

It didn’t hit me until the next day. About the same as the original second dose.

The original also omits almost everything about the Holy Soirit and the church. It was created specifically to deal with Arianism. The 381 version seems to have been re-edited to make it more broadly useful.

Mortality seems to be around 1% in the US Mortality Analyses - Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center, though it would be higher in that situation. Still, for a few people to survive it is not a surprise. But we’ve still got nearly 1 million dead, and it has caused serious problems for many...

The OP was in July. We were going into a low period. It was interrupted by the Delta peak. We’re coming down from that. I don’t think it’s clear whether there will be another one as people move indoors and particularly gather for holidays. Fauci said quite a while ago that we should see some...

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Sorry. Bad math. You’re right, though I think 28 or 29 weeks is a more common definition. Of course there can still be reasons, of the sort mentioned above. I assume they would be rare that late.

25 weeks is too soon. The prefrontal cortex isn’t operational until about 2 / 3 of the way. Until then it’s equivalent to pain for an unconscious person. Anesthesia doesnt remove the nerves that carry pain. it just makes it so the person doesn’t feel it.

So can an animal. That's not a criterion for humanity. It's also not clear what meaning pain has when there's no conscious entity to feel it. It can certainly create instinctive reactions.

I note that my objection doesn’t hold for some of the traditional,Catholic objection, though Catholics seem to be changing over to the new version. I think the traditional objection is wrong also, but not heretical.

The Gospels of course. But after that, Jonah. A wonderful satire against nationalism and narrowmindedness in general. Originally I thought it was a response to Ezra and Nehemiah. Although it may not be specifically that, it’s certainly a response to the attitude we see there.

You know my opinion already. I think considering a fetus fully human before it is capanle of thought is heretical, because it misrepresents the nature of the image of God.

Verse 12. Elisha kept watching him, and exclaimed about the chariot.

This is probably why 7:2 says he took 7 pairs of the clean animals, which would be the ones he could eat. Of course 6:19 says one pair of everything.

Right. Verse 12 seems to imply that he was taken in the chariot.

As they note, these were worshipped as gods. But the curriculum seems to use them to represent ideals. That is a problem, but the problem isn't having students pray to a pagan god. First, if it's intended to be part of looking at the Aztecs, it is probably a misrepresentation of actual Aztec...

Here’s a comment from Snopes What's True The California Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum (ESMC), which schools can voluntarily adopt or not, suggests that students participate in a “community chant” that includes references to “tezkatlipoka” and “huitzilopochtli,” which are translated as “self...