• @[email protected]
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    910 months ago

    Isn’t the church quite clear about when life begins? At first breath iirc? Stillborn kids don’t get baptized?

    • @[email protected]
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      210 months ago

      I’m pretty sure it was a thing that the most devout catholics are morally opposed even to birth control…

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      10 months ago

      No, Catholics are possibly the most consistent religion in unanimously agreeing life begins at fertilization. (Which, eggs you eat aren’t fertilized anyway.)

      They don’t baptize stillborn “babies” because they don’t believe in baptizing dead people, as it’s just a body at that point, no longer a complete person. Plus they believe since there was no opportunity, there is a way to heaven for them in the afterlife.

      I’ve only heard the “first breath” thing in a few modern sects of Judaism.

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        10 months ago

        Fair enough, then the egg metaphor is fitting.

        Edit: well, technically eggs are not fertilized. So no conception.

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        410 months ago

        Our views on abortion are more shaped by our politics then religion, I’m sure some extreme parts of Judaism are against abortion but I don’t believe it has too much basis in Torah.

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        610 months ago

        A lot of the eggs I get are fertilized (US, California), but maybe that’s because I tend to get “free range”. Can see the tiny embryo (~1mm) in a lot of them.