Posted on 03/20/2005 10:52:48 AM PST by Lindykim
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In another thread you asked:
"....how did we get from here to there in terms of why Terri's case is so important?
In this recent essay, I tackled that question, although from a different angle: http://www.sierratimes.com/05/02/23/209_240_205_63_48227.htm
Our founding Christian-based worldview (culture of life) has been abandoned by all too many Americans. However, events are such that I hope to see them go back to it.
Thanks for the Ping. I'm going to go grab "a cuppa" and dig right in! :)
Did someone say 'chocolate'?!? :-)
"Did someone say 'chocolate'?!?"
OK. You twisted my arm...I'll open a fresh bag of M&Ms to munch while I read too, LOL! :)
So true.
The logic of Roe-v-Wade (conditional value of human life) inevitably transitions into higher thresholds of value to justify that life.
So Roe-v-Wade -> Mercy Killing -> Partial-Birth Abortion -> Euthenasia -> starving to death those who cannot feed themselves.
There is no reason to kill Terri except to honor the raw authority of a judge who is in violation of the law in his own rulings.
How many defendants at Nuremburg used the same defense/rationale; I was only obeying the law? We must be a nation of law, even if that law is immoral and evil?
Terri cannot feed herself but can swallow food. Her parents are willing to care for her at home and not cost the state or Michael a penny, and yet Michael wont agree, and Judge Greer wont even hear it.
So for the sake of the law, as it is being twisted by an egomaniac at the prompting of two hideous murderous beings, Terri will be starved to death by law.
'When the branch is still green and they do these things, what will they do when it is dry?'
What will happen when all those born and raised in Christendom, taught in school that God exists and taught that society demands moral behavior for a moral end, WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THAT GENERATION PASSES AWAY, AND THEIR MORAL VOICE IS HEARD NO MORE?
Chaos, bloodshed, and slaughter is our fate then, I fear.
Brothers and sisters, prepare for the Catacombs.
Moral Absolutes Ping - Just started reading this, will finish as soon as I ping it out.
It's completely mind boggling how many "conservative" freepers are weighing in - often viciously - on the side of death. I am very saddened. The value of human life is NOT what we can do, how well we work, how much money we earn, how smart we are, how competitive, how physically fit or beautiful, how sexy or attractive, how healthy or strong. Not even how virtuous or pious.
The value of human life is that our real identity is eternal soul, an eternal child of God, and we all have the potential, regardless of our physical or even mental condition, to remember who we really are, and get right with God.
This inner spiritual journey can be undertaken even while lying in bed paralyzed. When a person is reduced to helplessness, this is often the impetus that brings a lost soul to the feet of God.
Let me know if anyone wants (back) on/off this pinglist.*
*I'm sorry, I lost the list for a second time.
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Just one addendum, after reading the whole article. I would humbly and respectively disagree that the atheists, neo-Marxists, nihilists and other assorted self-serving - dare I say demoniac? - who love death and hate life, hate only Christianity. Their war is not only against Christ and his teachings, but every religion that espouses worship of God and His laws.*
*Note I am not including Islam here; I have grievous disagreements with its followers and book.
snip.........WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THAT GENERATION PASSES AWAY, AND THEIR MORAL VOICE IS HEARD NO MORE?
Chaos, bloodshed, and slaughter is our fate then, I fear.
Brothers and sisters, prepare for the Catacombs
Absolutely! Either we are endowed by our Creator with an inalienable right to life from conception onwards till natural death, or we don't have it at all.
Once mankind steps in and begins to place human life into 'categories' so as to allow himself to make exceptions to the rule, he's saying in essence, that certain categories don't count as far as moral ethics are concerned.
And that's the very rationalization that led to the gulags, ovens, killing fields, and to slavery.
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God is not dead, but Nietzsche is.
You know what stopped the practice of selling humans in Fiji? Conversion to Christianity. Works every time.
You mean to tell me that secular humanism's moral relativism wouldn't do the trick? (sarcasm)
A lot of truths in this article.
Excellent ......... thanks for the ping.
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Pilate, when he judged Jesus according to Roman law and condemned an innocent man to death due to false charges of challenging Caesar's authority, Pilate washed his hands as though that cleansed him of the moral resposibility he bore as judge.
He was not excused and neither are those who support the law over the right to live of the innocent.
God will enforce His own verdict as He always does, inthe final court of war.
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