Christianity in the United States appears to have some seemingly messed up stigmas concerning sex, left over from the Puritan nut cases who escaped to here from Europe.

From the abject horror of being exposed to women’s nipples, right down to the hellish fear of seeing anything below the belt, the American Christian should be an endangered species. After all, no child is born believing in God, they have to be taught to do so. Hence, aside from adult converts, Christianity depends on familial population increases. The Catholic and Mormon variants certainly strive for this goal.

So, perhaps their workshops and publications, preaching the sins and dangers of pornography, are simply steps to ensure that no sperm is wasted in the grand design of Christian population expansion. Their unwavering support for (Christian) adoption is certainly related. Even the advent of circumcision as the norm in the United States, is based more on Christian attempts to reduce the potential for masturbation, than any health benefits. Frankly, all the evidence seems to point that there are no health benefits to circumcision, in spite of the old school medical beliefs.

Whether it is admitted or not, the loss of potential flock is the main portion of the reason that many Christians get so upset over the subject of porn, taken hand-in-hand with masturbation. Sex is evil, unless it is used to make more Christians. (This is their hidden fear over same-sex marriage and a slew of other related topics. Christians like to spout off over the “sanctity of marriage,” as if they invented it. Hint: they didn’t.)

This is also the root of their fear of abortion. Articles like Zygotes and Embryos are People stress that such cells are fully a human being, because the human soul is present from the moment of conception. They hence equate an abortion with murder, and heap upon that zygote their unjustified fear for its immortal soul. Some go so far as to claim the same sin when using birth control. They base these ideas completely on their holy text, ignoring science. They have to ignore science, because science can’t find evidence for a soul, let alone God – and a clump of snot is more complex biologically than a zygote.

The debate ultimately boils down to those who would protect a fertilized cell due to unsupported conjecture, taken from ancient, anonymous writings; against those who attempt to understand the biological nature of the situation and make moral judgment based on actual capability of the organism to a given stage of development.

This deadlock leads to some rather pointless arguments. As an example, the famous argument of, “You could be preventing the next Einstein!” Usually countered with, “…or the next Hitler.” Lather. Rinse. Repeat. Either is completely unsupported speculation, with no method of determining likelihood. The argument is stupid and unproductive.

The real argument at hand, is a pointed question for the Christians; “What makes you think that your beliefs, utterly devoid of evidentness, are even worth contemplation?” The simple fact of the matter is, without objective, scientific merit; basing legality of abortion on the Christian argument is a violation of the First Amendment, as it embroils religion with the state. This is the crux of “Roe vs. Wade.”

Personally, I have a follow up question, in our over-populated world, “Why do you insist on breeding?” Once the selfish reasons for the process are exposed, the Christian breeding dogma becomes a bit ugly. “Breed to succeed,” is not an enlightened stance.

When the anti-abortionist’s argument boils down to, “the zygote has a soul!” the stance is without substance from the beginning. Prove that the soul exists, then we’ll talk. Christians don’t even have the tiniest shred of evidence for the existence of the human soul, but they have a whole dogma of beliefs surrounding it, beliefs that they are more than willing to force unto others. The abortion debate is more about Christians pushing their beliefs unto others, than any real concern over the people involved in these heart wrenching decisions.

So, the abortion debate will continue as long as intangible bullshit is allowed to have say in legal decisions.