afraid to answer the question
It's "a" question, not "the" question. It leads to others. Every time a man shaves his face, or a woman her nether-parts a host of still living human cells complete with DNA and everything is set on it's own path, no longer bound to it's original source and host. The rhetoric of when life "begins" implies that human origin and DNA is the only thing required to get maximal effort from some to save the life of that cell. Well, we have the technology to save all those shaved cells and even clone them into a fully functional adult, but there doesn't seem to be a lot of fuss or bother to rescue them.
Why?
Because everyone realizes at the stage in which they are found is devoid of self awareness.Theology has until some heresy of the last few generations always found that a soul is synonymous with the knowledge of self and future. That is why christians taught from the beginning of the church that those too young too be aware or those too feeble minded to be aware are not confronted with the judgement of Heaven or Hell, but instead remain in Limbo until the end of times.
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how
infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and
admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like
a god! |
