Editor,
While I agree that everyone has the right to believe in what they want to, I am becoming more and more agitated and annoyed by people who claim that something is right or wrong because "God told me so."
This argument has no place in any political arena and should never be uttered when debating the legitimacy of a policy, such as the legal right to an abortion. Why, in this day and age of enlightened thinking and reason, do people feel the need to consult a book with no factual basis to form their public opinions?
When did these people gain the knowledge that the Bible is 100 percent correct and that there truly is a God? When did they determine, through the use of scientific methodology and furious examination, that they are correct? After all of that, when did they gain the moral superiority necessary for them to assert that the rest of us should change our lives because their God told them so?
I am sure these so-called proponents of life would not hesitate to question the advice on policy given from individuals who claimed that "Allah told me so" or "the Torah said it."
Arguments such as those based on a book demonstrate a complete failure to grasp the concepts of evidence and communal reality. As we find in letters such as the one written by Jean Hampleman in Friday's Daily Lobo, there seems to be a gaping hole in factual evidence on which these arguments are based. She even stretches so far as to assume that because "God knew us before we were in the womb," we are already alive.
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I have heard some out-of-this-world arguments in my time, but asserting that life begins even before conception is just ludicrous. If God fertilizes the eggs and plants them in the womb based on his master plan, then why do women have miscarriages? Is God murdering children who are already alive? This wouldn't surprise me, as God murders more people in the Bible than Satan by over a 250,000 to 1 ratio.
Hampleman asks, "What if the children aborted had a purpose to fulfill?" Well, what if that purpose was to become the next Adolf Hitler? Or the next Joseph Stalin? Or, to turn back to Christianity, what if that child aborted was the anti-Christ? What if that child was the son of Satan? What would you want to happen then?
Remember that when arguing about things in the real world, make sure to use evidence in the real world and not something you believe because you read a spiritual guidebook written not by God, but by men.
Next, if you do, for some reason beyond me, decide to argue what the Bible says, make sure to do more than read on the surface - if you read it at all. Then, if you decide to argue that, don't pick and choose which passages suit your needs and discard the rest. Let's start thinking, not just believing.
Mario Hernandez
UNM student
