Love Thy Body de Nancy Pearcey : destaques

Love Thy Body: Answering Hard Questions about Life and Sexuality (Nancy R. Pearcey)
- Seu destaque ou posição 4465-4468 | Adicionado: quinta-feira, 5 de abril de 2018 08:19:14

By contrast, Christianity assigns the human body a much richer dignity and value. Humans do not need freedom from the body to discover their true, authentic self. Rather we can celebrate our embodied existence as a good gift from God. Instead of escaping from the body, the goal is to live in harmony with it.
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Love Thy Body: Answering Hard Questions about Life and Sexuality (Nancy R. Pearcey)
- Seu destaque ou posição 4508-4510 | Adicionado: quinta-feira, 5 de abril de 2018 11:27:34

“If you abolish sex distinctions in law, you can abolish state recognition of biological family ties, and the state can regulate personal relationships and consolidate power as never before.”
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Love Thy Body: Answering Hard Questions about Life and Sexuality (Nancy R. Pearcey)
- Seu destaque ou posição 4520-4524 | Adicionado: quinta-feira, 5 de abril de 2018 11:29:45

Until now, the family was seen as natural and pre-political, with natural rights. That means it existed prior to the state, and the state merely recognized its rights. But if the law no longer recognizes natural sex, then it no longer recognizes natural families or natural parents, only legal parents. That means parents have no natural rights, only legal rights. You, as a mother or father, have only the rights the state chooses to grant you.
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Love Thy Body: Answering Hard Questions about Life and Sexuality (Nancy R. Pearcey)
- Seu destaque ou posição 964-968 | Adicionado: quarta-feira, 18 de abril de 2018 15:16:55

Princeton ethicist Peter Singer writes, “the life of a human organism begins at conception” but “the life of a person—. . .[a] being with some level of self-awareness—does not begin so early.”6 For Singer, simply being human has no moral significance.
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Love Thy Body: Answering Hard Questions about Life and Sexuality (Nancy R. Pearcey)
- Seu destaque ou posição 1060-1062 | Adicionado: quarta-feira, 18 de abril de 2018 16:56:27

They are matters of degree—quantitative differences. What we do not find is a clear qualitative transition point for the momentous transformation from a non-person to a person.
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Love Thy Body: Answering Hard Questions about Life and Sexuality (Nancy R. Pearcey)
- Seu destaque ou posição 1097-1100 | Adicionado: quarta-feira, 18 de abril de 2018 18:18:27

A Christian concept of personhood depends not on what I can do but on who I am—that I am created in the image of God, and that God has called me into existence and continues to know and love me. Human beings do not need to earn the right to be treated as creatures of great value. Our dignity is intrinsic, rooted in the fact that God made us, knows us, and loves