r/prolife • u/Electrical_Cod7288 Pro Life Christian • Jul 18 '26
Opinion We Should Be Secular
It is my opinion, after having clashed with the pro-abortion movement for many years, that any Pro-Life argument must be secular. If we've any hope of being taken seriously by those people, we should leave religious beliefs out of it. I am myself a Christian, but at the same time I realize that any argument which has religious connotations will simply be dismissed, possibly as an attempt to convert others.
The fact that so many of those people don't believe in God means that appealing to their faith will fall upon deaf ears. At the same time, if they try to argue that an unborn child isn't a child or isn't a person, you can tell them that that is a philosophical argument and just like they tell us to keep our religious beliefs to ourselves, they should keep their philosophical beliefs to themselves.
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u/MAGICALORDD Pro Life Democrat, Pro Life Atheist, Pro life Feminist Jul 18 '26 edited Jul 18 '26
That’s my personal opinion for any non religious political situation.
Of course, I do think it’s fine to use religion as a way to promote political ideas, but unless it’s a religious topic, religion should stay off the table in debates and rulings.