Headlines declare that a group of some 10-15 Christian evangelical anti-abortion activists oppose Sen. Barack Obama's appearance at an AIDS event being hosted by Christian evangelist Rick Warren. As my AOL blog colleague David Knowles pointed out this morning, the next headline captured the House GOP's parting shot at defining when a fetus becomes a human being, and thus at 20 weeks is a "pain-capable unborn child."

According to evangelical Christians, a human being comes into their God's governed existence when the spermatozoa of the male human penetrates the female human's egg. Accordingly two things then occur: fertilization and the beginning growth of the fetus and the simultaneous infusion by their God with a "soul" which is unique to each "fetus." Thus, the basis for their tenet that abortion, at no matter what period in gestation, is premeditated murder.

Despite two thousand years of practice however, the Christians have yet to prove their thesis scientifically. Much like the rest of their belief system judgements it is predicated upon two things:

1) Belief that the Bible (from which they base their interpretation) is the living, literal word of God.

2) Science is incorrect when it contradicts the Bible and that belief in God and God's Word, and the messengers delivering God's word, are supreme over the works of man's mind.

Thus, their entire system of judgement is based on Western human's most current superstitious belief system. This of course follows in a very long line of ignorant humans worshipping the Old Kings who claimed to be the earthly heir to that era's God of Gods.

This latest "lunacy" (remember humans once worshipped the Lunar Planet) must be viewed within the scope of the United States as a democracy and the separation of Church and State, preventing the intrusion of the superstition de jour from censoring the rational progress of civilization. Thus, we work to keep religion from intruding into the organs of public education wherein we construct a science that is unfettered by prior conception. (No pun.)

But not the evangelicals. Not only do they want a constitutional amendment banning all abortion, they want laws to charge those who participate in abortions as premeditated perpetrators of murder. Those to be charged would be the mother and her civilian enabler-accomplices (husband, boyfriend, relative, friend) and the doctors/nurse practitioners who deliver services. Thus, death row would soon be female dominated. Thus, increasing the number of human institutions that kill killers to keep them from killing again! Such is that logic.

But wait, what about miscarriages? And what is a miscarriage? And is it murder? And who are the murders? Or, rather, The Murderer?

According to the March of Dimes,

A miscarriage can be an intensely sad and frightening experience. A pregnancy that had seemed normal suddenly ends, leaving expectant parents devastated. About 15 percent of recognized pregnancies end this way. ...

The causes of miscarriage are not thoroughly understood. When a woman has a first-trimester miscarriage, her health care provider often cannot determine the cause. However, most miscarriages occur when a pregnancy is not developing normally. Usually, there is nothing a woman or her provider can do to prevent it. Among factors known to cause first-trimester miscarriages, the most common is a chromosomal abnormality in the fetus.

Well! Hmm? Following the grand logic and rational thinking of the evangelicals, God creates all. God infuses the "impregnated" egg with an "everlasting" soul, thus, contrary to the bizarre concept that the 20 week old being qualifies for pro-life protection, the being is HIS being. So that then begs the question of miscarriage:

God chooses not to have the being live and snuffs its little life right out without regard to the pain and suffering of it or the mother or father. Is that murder? Given the numbers of these murders then, God kills off far more little beings than abortions and abortionists. Does that not make God a serial killer with the longest string of murders of the innocent?

Is there a place for God on death row? To whom does God appeal his sentence? And which state entity has jurisdiction over God.

Now there is a God Damned conundrum!