The only way to explain the inherent value of human life is to resort to religious arguments...

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Interesting considering all those things were created by Christians

No, you just made that up. And even if that were true (which it is not), they were the products of reason and evidence, not Faith or religion.

If a Christian invents a better mousetrap, that doesn't make it a Christian mouse trap

 

[Karl Rand]

God kills humans all the time what are you blathering about?

Not only kills them, but in painful and torturous ways by cancers, abuse, wars etc.

But it's sinful to choose a peaceful method like euthanasia to take your own life.

I hope that last sentence was written as some kind of sick joke.
The eistence of pain and evil has never been fully explained/justified by the religious without resorting to evil entities such as Satan. Problem is the Prince of Darkness could have been prevented from leaving God’s side if the Almighty possessed anything like a conscience to go with his/her/ its omniscience. It’s all just too silly to swallow unless you’re a true believer drenched in biblical apologetics.

 

[LittleNipper]

There is the reality that to explain the evil in the world one must accept that good exists. If both are only figments of one's imagination, then so are pain and joy --- despair and hope --- hate and love.

 

[Karl Rand]

This entire exercise is pointless as the original question is limiting the number of possible answers before we start the investigation, or sermon from the original poster themselve.
The way the question is couched removes several possible approaches, one of which is the claim life itself and it’s defence is the source of all value. What would value mean to us if there was no life? We wouldn’t even be here to ask the question.

 

[ding]

...that's why we are losing the argument on abortion, assisted suicide and euthanasia, is because too many people can no longer be reached by religious arguments.

The quandary is this, only if there is a God who created human life in his own image, is human life precious, so that killing of innocent human life is always wrong.

If one does not believe in God, then human life has no inherent value, and killing innocent human life can be justified when it is convenient.

The only way to win the argument on abortion/assisted suicide/euthanasia is to convince enough people that God exists.

I disagree. Eventually error will fail.

 

[ding]

This entire exercise is pointless as the original question is limiting the number of possible answers before we start the investigation, or sermon from the original poster themselve.
The way the question is couched removes several possible approaches, one of which is the claim life itself and it’s defence is the source of all value. What would value mean to us if there was no life? We wouldn’t even be here to ask the question.

You might understand the value better when it hits closer to home. It's real easy for us to see things a certain way until it becomes real to us. It's human nature.

 

[Michelle420]

...that's why we are losing the argument on abortion, assisted suicide and euthanasia, is because too many people can no longer be reached by religious arguments.

The quandary is this, only if there is a God who created human life in his own image, is human life precious, so that killing of innocent human life is always wrong.

If one does not believe in God, then human life has no inherent value, and killing innocent human life can be justified when it is convenient.

The only way to win the argument on abortion/assisted suicide/euthanasia is to convince enough people that God exists.

Love has inherent value.

 

[ding]

Everything will work itself as it should. That doesn’t mean we will like it.

I have faith that ultimately good will come from it if we are open to the possibility of seeing things in ways we aren’t usually accustomed to seeing them.