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To: cerberus
"Could you please show me the Bible verses that endorse assisted suicide?"
This is what I mean by simple-mindedness. I presume you believe in the Ten Commandments (Thou Shalt not Kill, etc.) and also support our military actions which involve killing. You hang your hats on "moral absolutism" and then pick, choose and rationalize to prove your points.

When you read the Bible in its entirety over and over, a larger picture emerges than when you cherry-pick a single line. The Book of Romans is but one place that gives a defense for the power of the "king" to order the deaths of lawbreakers or enemy combatants. That is an entirely separate issue from a society promoting the efficient killing of unwanted innocents such as fetuses, people with disabilities or the infirm elderly -- and, inevitably, using government coercion to compel medical caregivers to perform such acts.

Secondly, the original commandments were written in Hebrew, and the word was "murder", not "kill."

145 posted on 10/04/2009 12:33:45 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("I apologize to hookers for having associated them with the House of Representatives.--Jim Traficant)
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To: Albion Wilde
The Book of Romans is but one place that gives a defense for the power of the "king" to order the deaths of lawbreakers or enemy combatants.

So I guess, "Thou shalt not kill", for example, is not a moral absolute. It appears to qualify under some circumstances and not under others. Sounds a lot like "situation ethics" to me.

148 posted on 10/04/2009 12:43:48 PM PDT by cerberus
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