Exactly right! Tell me you know a thing about unemotional pregnant women. Otherwise you just made my point that having an abortion is not using good judgement unless you want to cite exceptions like medical reasons that would endanger the mother.
Hang on... are you really implying that women shouldn't have the right to choose whether to have an abortion because they're "emotional", yet at the same time supporting the right to have firearms for defense?
Exactly how many people do you know who would be calm, cool and completely rational in the sort of life-or-death scenarios where a firearm would actually be used in defense? If we applied your abortion logic to gun control, we'd come to the conclusion that people shouldn't have defensive firearms in any situation where they might actually use them.
It just so happens that what you call "universal" values also happen to be Christian values. Interesting coincidence.
Which also happen to be Jewish values, Zoroastrian values, Pagan values, Hindu values, Shinto values, Shamanistic values, etc., etc. Interesting coincidence.
Also, I'm pretty sure there has never been a government that punishes people for not honoring your parents or coveting.
Which says to me that our secular laws aren't really based on anyone's idea of how God thinks we should act, IMO.
"God's laws" impact the soul. Laws are meant to create order and are only applied to sins that injure others. This doesn't make them any less "Christian". The laws still maintain themselves within the Christian dichotomy.
Would converting a Christian to some other religion "impact the soul"? It's not illegal to do this, yet it'd be arguably worst thing that a person could do to another from the Christian viewpoint.
Every value we consider "moral" in our culture is in the Bible. It's pretty hard to argue with that fact. I think it's simply an intelligent observation that our laws WERE and continue to BE within Christian values. If you refuse this, then I can only imagine that it is out of pure will rather than reason.
I would disagree. I can think of a few instances where moral views that I have go against Biblical teachings. For instance, I consider gender equality moral, yet the Bible speaks at great length about how different (and IMO unequal) roles for men and women should be the norm.
Also, religious freedom is valued as a good and moral thing in our culture. However (and understandably), this is never spoken of favourably in the Bible.
Those are just the first things off the top of my head. I can probably come up with more if you want.
Like... what? Do you mean they are IN the Bible or are they actually CONDONED in the Bible? It is an historical document after all, they don't leave out the people who do bad things.
No, but they do proclaim certain teachings to be from God, such as most of Leviticus and Deutoronomy, and much of the Epistles are instruction for the faithful. There are plenty of things in those that a reasonable person would find objectionable, IMO.