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To: Cold Heat; MarMema; Republic; nicmarlo

"Nobody can answer that. plus, it is not material to this."
(your comment on the question of "where" Terri's soul is)




Actually, a careful study of the case reveals that it IS a material issue, in the sense that many of the parties involved consider it so.

On the one hand, you have a euthanasia enthusiast such as Felos, who believes that he can read the souls of patients in persistent vegetative states (just look at his book "Litigation in Spiritual Practice"), and that they tell him they want to be "freed" from their "prison".
It has also been extensively documented here and elsewhere the connections that Scientology has to this case. Scientologists believe that a person such as Terri is in a "prison" and is not worthy to be kept alive. They also believe the human body is merely a "shell" for a spiritual essence.

On the other hand, you have Terri Schindler-Schiavo, a practicing Catholic before her "collapse". The Catholic Church condemns what is being done to Terri. The Church believes that a human being is a person, body and soul, who is created in the image and likeness of God.
The body is not merely a "shell", but an essential part of who we are.
At death, the soul is separated from the body for a time, but both body and soul will be reunited at the final Resurrection, and the person will live forever with a glorified body.

My point is, that beliefs about the nature of the soul are at the very heart of the various parties' behavior in this case.


1,699 posted on 03/20/2005 9:24:36 AM PST by Deo volente (God willing, Terri Schiavo will live.)
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To: All

I have a question for everybody. If we have no right to decide who lives and dies under any circumstance, what justifies anyone being sent out to the battlefield if they don't want to go?


1,701 posted on 03/20/2005 9:32:44 AM PST by Hildy
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