As for abortion & marriage issues, birth & legitimacy, societies with patrilineal inheritance, controlled female sexuality is natural offshoot designed for eliminating any threat to an ordered transmission of property and power. Its patriarchal rule that leads to all this criminalization & far from being "divine" these beliefs have more to do with material inheritance, goods & control of the Church. In contrast,systems where property are transmitted matrialineally, the concept of illegitimacy does not exist
Whether a fetus is to be afforded special status on moral grounds because of religious doctrine, again the issue was always one of control and an appeal to guilt as a substitution for reason. The real difficulty comes in where the Church runs into problems with an extreme absolutist posture regarding contraception & its catechism which hysterical fundies that could never think for themselves, latch onto.
What kind of morality brings unwanted children into the world? An insane morality, dedicated to its own threatened self preservation, posturing as a "morality". |
