Prolife possibly…evil?
When I was at university, during my senior year, I took an English course from my favorite professor, Dr. Rona Kaufman and within that course, I wrote some short papers which I titled “Conversing with the Devil”. These were mostly snippets of larger problems wherein I’d write from an alternative perspective, sort of playing Devil’s Advocate. I’d like to begin that again now.
The premise for this first Conversing with the Devil blog is thus:
Within certain religious belief models, allowing children to live is pure evil.
The circumstances, or rather beliefs, are quite specific, but they are rather ubiquitous within the three mainstream monotheistic faiths.
Here are the specifics:
1) One must believe in a hell, and probably an eternal one, although any hell would be terrible. This hell would be apart from God and would have anguish, pain, and suffering.
2) One must believe in a heaven, a place wherein God resides and this is a place of absolute happiness.
3) One must believe there is only one life to live, one shot.
4) One must believe that all humans go to either heaven or hell upon their death.
5) One must believe that babies, being without sin and without choice, automatically go to heaven.
This is pretty standard Christianity, Islam and Judaism, which is roughly 4.5 billion people worldwide. No small amount.
So, if one were to believe in the five criteria I mentioned above, a baby born into this world, under this belief system would automatically go to heaven UNTIL it was at either the age or the maturity to believe what it wants to believe about God and religion and thus putting its own life on a path to either eternal torment or eternal serenity.
I think we could all agree that if given a choice that was made abundantly clear from the onset, as in having a taste of this eternal torment and/or this eternal bliss, I’d imagine 100% would choose bliss. Would any human ever choose eternal torment? Yeah, I think no.
So to even allow a human being to have a chance at this eternal torment is to put it mildly, wrong, and to put it for what it is, it’s evil. Imagine allowing someone to venture off into an eternal hell when one could have saved them from the beginning and sent them to an eternal haven of happiness. I’d be like purposefully not teaching someone to swim, dropping them in the ocean and those that learn in that moment may be saved, but most will flounder until they perish.
Maybe the concepts of eternal hell and eternal heaven are just too vague and opaque for anyone to understand so it’s so abstract that it’s impossible to think about. Perhaps, but one can try. Have YOU ever put your hand on a hot stove and felt that intense, searing pain? Imagine having to keep your hand there for two seconds, three seconds, one minute. The pain, one CAN imagine, would be unbearable. So, imagine a pain worse than that by, oh let’s just throw a weird number out there, a trillion burning hot suns. Can you truly imagine allowing a person you LOVE or even you HATE be sent to that place? That is beyond evil more than any other idea I can conceive of (yes, prepositions at the end of a sentence are alright by me).
Truly I tell you, I would rather die at birth or before birth and NEVER take the chance of going to hell if there actually was one. I mean, what is this little pathetic life on earth compared to eternity? Hell, half the time, life on earth feels like hell (is it?) so why would one choose to live here versus a true paradise?
If one truly believes in those five things listed above, which is standard Christianity, Islam and Judaism, it is evil, beyond evil to allow even one baby to make it into maturity.
And for what? To satisfy what we want in life, to become parents to our little mini-me?
All babies should be sacrificed immediately upon conception or birth.
That is truly the only humane thing to do. Sending babies immediately to God and eternal bliss? Yes please, sign me up…except my parents didn’t do that. And now I live in this hellish earth believing in God, but not religion, possibly awaiting a hell that torments me for eternity.
If it were up to me and those were my only options coming into this universe, I would have taken the knife straightaway. Anything less than that, would be evil.
So if pro-life, and more specifically, pro-birth, is based on a religious doctrine that mandates those five criteria above, I’d suggest rethinking the moral code. Under that guise, any thing less than killing all the babies, is evil.
And that, is conversing with the devil.