Re: So-called pro-lifers

Steve Stolz (steves@uccs.com)
Wed, 02 Jul 1997 10:02:06 -0500

Russell Stewart wrote:
>
> At 02:40 PM 6/26/97 -0500, you wrote:
> >Russell,
> >
> >Just a private opinion of mine:
> >
> >> Therefore making this "universal, eternal" moral code rather easy to
> >> manipulate. After all, one can simply define "murder" however one
> >> wishes. The Crusaders certainly didn't believe that they were commiting
> >> murder. Nor did the Inquisitors, the witch-burners, or modern-day
> >> "Pro-Lifers" who murder abortion doctors.
> >
> >While I am aware that a few so-called "Pro-Lifers" have murdered
> >abortion doctors, please don't refer to them as pro-lifers. That
> >is an insult to those of us who are abhored by those actions. It
> >wasn't the "pro-life" aspect of these people that led them to the
> >murders, but rather that they are not-all-there mentally.
> >
> >The vast, vast majority of us true pro-lifers would never be able
> >to commit such an act.
>
> I know that, but this schism just goes to emphasize once again the non-
> existence of a true universal, eternal moral code.

No, this just goes to emphasize the non-existence of a COMMON
UNDERSTANDING of the true universal, eternal moral code which
does in fact exist.

As I've said before, that understanding is held, in my opinion,
by the Church (Roman Catholic).

Steve Stolz