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To: Jamestown1630

That’s an argument from the left.


14 posted on 07/13/2022 7:44:07 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

That’s ok. I’ve been called worse, here.

But who are you to dictate that someone else should choose to manage their severe illness as YOU see fit?

It seems to me that leftist governments all over the world want to do that - so I guess that makes YOU a lefty, too.


15 posted on 07/13/2022 7:46:47 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Olog-hai

There are seven unambiguous examples of suicide in the Bible:

Abimelech, mortally wounded by a millstone, ordered his armor-bearer to dispatch him to avoid the suggestion he had been slain by the woman who had thrown the stone (Judg 9:52-54);

the prophet Ahithophel hanged himself after betraying David (2Sam 17:23);

Zimri burned down his house around himself after military defeat (1Kgs 16:18);

....and the more familiar stories of Saul and his armor-bearer (1Sam 1:1-6;
1Chr 10:1-6), Samson, (Judg 16:28), and, of course, Jesus’ disciple Judas—although it is only in Matthew’s Gospel where he kills himself (Matt 27:3-5; compare with Acts 1:18).

There is nothing in any of these stories to suggest that the biblical narrators disapprove of the characters’ suicides.


61 posted on 07/13/2022 10:24:28 PM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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