I understand the dilemmas with Christianity–the hatred and killing that goes on in the name of “the Lord” is terrible.

My personal belief is not very dogmatic. Even after 12 years of Catholic education, and courses in Medieval Philosophy (1000 years of Catholic-dominated Theology), I believe that the Lord does not follow our individual lives. I think that He created the choices and consequences system of the world and our existence. We make our choices (say, pick what’s behind door number three), and then another set of choices are presented to us. And, we must make another set of choices (okay, this time, I’ll take door number two).

But, this isn’t the only place I disagree with the Church. For example, I don’t think that we should be forced to choose between Pro-life and Pro-Choice. There is actually a logical fallacy there—the concepts are unfairly dichotomized. And, the worst thing of it all is that the Christian idiots don’t know that the first premise of their entire argument (that God breathes life into the a fetus at the point of conception) was written as a trailer bill to a longer philosophical treatise. Or, if they know it, they are not letting on . . . .

In the Middle Ages (mid 1400’s), there was a Philosophical battle between St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine. The Church (all Christians at the time–they had not split yet) had originally adopted St. Augustine’s philosophies around 300AD, and those theories dominated Church Theology unchallenged until the Mid-1400’s. St. Thomas Aquinas crafted an alternative philosophy that ultimately won favor and replaced St. Augustine’s philosophy as the official perspective of the Church.

To make his theories align with the book of Genesis, St. Thomas Aquinas arbitrarily chose the point of conception as the moment when God animated a baby. In China, and in the Middle East (and ancient Greece, for that matter), doctors were already aware that a baby’s heart did not start beating until later in the pregnancy. But, in medieval Europe, that information was not available. Perhaps he made his decisions based upon the currently available medical knowledge. At the time, the Church was also hanging people who did not publicly agree with their philosophy. Aquinas was already treading on thin ground publishing his works. So, fear could have been involved with his decision-making process, as well.

The reality is that St. Thomas Aquinas selected that moment as part of his philosophy. He could have easily chosen the first breath, the first heart beat, and if the information we have now was available, the moment a fetus is “viable outside of the womb.” Consequently, all of the major church schisms in the church (with the exception of some Orthodox Christian churches) occurred after this event, and the archetypal modern Christian inherited his or her Pro-Life values from this nearly 600 year old attached legislation.

So, while I believe in God, I know the entire Pro-Life stance to be a farce based upon personal beliefs. If everyone were to say that they believe this to be true, there really wouldn’t be any substance for their legislation. But, alas, that is not what we have. Instead, we have millions of people masquerading that they know the truth about God and Life, and everything else they profess to KNOW. In actuality, they are mere puppets to a handful of medieval church Theologians.