The truth is that in the entirety of Western Civilization, for 2000 years and more natural death has been accepted as the end of life. It's only in the last 30 years that suddenly this has become 'intolerable'. Pain can be managed effectively.. and in the faith of our forefathers.. pain is symptom of life. Suffering has been seen as redeeming and sanctifying. Not to mention that pain can now be managed effectively even in the most severe illnesses.
And why is that? Is this "sanctity of human life" not important enough to prolong life? Is the compassion taught by Christianity not for easing suffering?
Hypocritical crap. If anything is evil it is these aggressive cults like CHristianity and its malevolent and hypocritical god, Yaweh.
What we are seeing now in that a our society has deemed that Life has NO meaning. It needs to be eradicated if it is inconvenient or doesn't conform to an acceptable standard of comfort. That's the reason we've aborted at least 60 million children in North America in the last 45 years. A holocaust of unprecedented proportions. Its why we see this cult moving relentlessly to murder the weak and vulnerable amongst those who have managed to be born.
When Life loses its meaning and value.. death becomes equally as worthless.
And how did this watering down of the value of life come about? It surely could not be because of the incredible size of population, could it? What happens when you bake a few cupcakes? You enjoy one now and then. What happens when you bake 5 dozen? You lose your pleasure in eating them.
"Be fruitful and multiply, fill the Earth ...." till there are so many people they do not value each other any longer. If you lived in a rural area and do not see dozens of people every day, you tend to enjoy them when you do see them. If you live in a big city where you can see hundreds every day and are constantly inundated with people honking horns and urging you to buy stuff and shooting at each other, the treasuring of human life is eroded. "And God said to them, 'Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and ....." Genesis 8:17
This does not resort any convoluted reversal of logic.. that killing someone is doing them a favour. You DO NOT administer poison as a doctor or medical professional. You heal.
uhuh How do you heal a terminal patient?
Suicide will always be a mortal sin, and its an action that must be taken by the individual by himself.. accepting all of its consequences, before God. Ensnaring the medical idustry into the act a co-conspirator is an act of cowardice. Of casting off the the blame and implicating doctors or nurses into an act abhorrent to their professional integrity.
It's the biggest of cop outs. If you're bent on suicide then do it and accept its consequences. Don't surround yourself with this blather of nonsense that you are actually doing something good.. for yourself or your family.
hehe It is all part of evolution; you, me, Ludlow, selfsame, the pope, Trudeau, science, cults, politics, etc. We are evolving and will be what we will be.
Death is simply death. People fear it because it is an unknown - we know so little about it. Might as well focus on life while we are alive.
My point exactly. This Cult of Death has become the dominant 'spirituality' of our time.. imbued with deep pessimism, futility, inertia, material gratification and sentimental sophistry. That is the idol that our governments, courts and most of the people worship these days.. a golden calf. Christianity is a religion that REQUIRES critical and moral reasoning. Give up on that and you are easy prey for the New Age idolatry and capitulation of responsibility that is plotting our future.
Christianity does no such thing. People have been trying to pound the myth and mysticism out of it for centuries. Its biggest fault is sticking to its mysticism and trying to keep creation rather than science to explain the realities of the universe.
Life and its diversity is supreme, not individual lives.
