Saturday, August 28, 2004

I believe so you must follow or Religion is dangerous


“I believe so you must follow”

We see this creeping farther into women’s rights to make their own choices for their own bodies.

The recent issue of pharmacists refusing to sell contraceptives to consumers because of “moral reasons” takes the issue to a lower level of high idiocy.

Escondido obstetrician and gynecologist Dr. Arthur Stehly stopped prescribing birth-control pills in 1988. He actually said:

"I rationalized myself into thinking I should be God in my office, judging who gets the pill or not," Stehly said recently. "I knew at home I could not use the pill. I had to do what the natural law says."
He rationalized that he was God? That is blasphemous if you are religious I think. But it’s even more frightening than that. I’m assuming that if it doesn’t conform to His “natural Law” then he can’t be counted on to do his job. Could this even go as far as changing prescriptions for certain drugs if they don’t fit his morals and other drugs do?

Religion is dangerous once you try and bring it out from it’s true place – which is clearly inside ourselves for each of us individually.




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