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Michael Schiavo Lawyer's Personal Spirituality of Death
Opinionjournal.com Best of the Web Today ^ | 3/28/05 | James Taranto

Posted on 03/28/2005 8:17:13 PM PST by Jacksonville Patriot

Death Is Beautiful? Possibly the creepiest moment in the Terri Schiavo saga came Saturday afternoon, when George Felos, Michael Schiavo's lawyer, appeared at a press conference without his client. Felos described having visited Mrs. Schiavo, who at that point had gone eight days without food and water. "Frankly when I saw her . . . she looked beautiful," Felos told the assembled reporters...That's just weird.

It turns out that Felos's weirdness goes deeper still. In a 2003 article, Florida Baptist Witness editor James Smith looked at Felos's 2002 book, "Litigation as Spiritual Practice." Felos's views on the "right to die" are informed by a "syncretistic" spirituality that "mixes diverse religious traditions--including generous citations from the Bible and references to Jesus Christ--creating a composite of his own spiritual worldview."

Smith quotes at length a story from Felos's book about Estelle Browning, the subject of Felos's first right-to-die case:

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: felos; law; schiavo
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To: Jacksonville Patriot

FELOS LOOKING BEAUTIFUL AFTER BEING BLESSED WITH HOLY WATER

21 posted on 03/28/2005 9:14:19 PM PST by Fred
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To: Jacksonville Patriot

Felos is the new age equivalent of a serial killer. He is positively orgasmic over the death of another.


22 posted on 03/28/2005 9:16:52 PM PST by antceecee (I pray that God will give guidance to the good who lead us...)
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To: undercover brother

Not really funny, but your post made me chuckle. I did the same...I said it had to be a unanimous vote by all my family members :)


23 posted on 03/28/2005 9:18:21 PM PST by sageb1
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To: antceecee

Not that it will do much good, but I sent email to O'Reilly tonight. I told him he was wrong when he said no one won - that the author of the book, "Litigation as Spiritual Practice," George Felos won. I challenged him to read the book and then tell me I'm wrong.


24 posted on 03/28/2005 9:21:38 PM PST by sageb1
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To: northernlightsII
Yesterday when he invoked the "holy Day" of Easter I thaught he was going to be struck by lightening

Easter actually falls on some pagan holiday, the birth of Ishtar (?) or something to do with her. That's why it is tied to a particular full moon, not a set day every year.

Undoutedly this is a holy day for him, but not in the same sense that it is Holy to us.

25 posted on 03/28/2005 9:21:56 PM PST by PistolPaknMama (Will work for cool tag line.)
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To: Peach; Neets

here girls, come carry some water for your guy


26 posted on 03/28/2005 9:22:09 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Florida, where the disabled go to be felosed to death.)
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To: PistolPaknMama

It's tied to Jewish Passover


27 posted on 03/28/2005 9:22:47 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Florida, where the disabled go to be felosed to death.)
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To: sageb1

He won't bother, after all the bloviating MR.O is always right. No one in this process has sought to look at Felos or Greer critically.


28 posted on 03/28/2005 9:25:19 PM PST by antceecee (I pray that God will give guidance to the good who lead us...)
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To: Jacksonville Patriot

Felos is creepier than Zarqawi.


30 posted on 03/28/2005 9:28:15 PM PST by Ben Chad
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To: undercover brother

I have not read his work, but I would imagine that the darkness in man is more horrifying than any mythological horror we could imagine.


31 posted on 03/28/2005 9:29:24 PM PST by antceecee (I pray that God will give guidance to the good who lead us...)
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To: Jacksonville Patriot

Our legal system (from the highest court down to Michael Schiavo's attorney)has been hijacked by extreme liberals, communists, aethists, appeasers, environ wackos, secularists, abortionists, and God-hating lawyers. Just like the Islamo-fascists have taken over and become the face of Islam. God help us. God bless America.


32 posted on 03/28/2005 9:29:31 PM PST by citizencon
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To: Jacksonville Patriot
This guy made my skin crawl from the first syllable out of his mouth. That was before I knew he was a writing litigating news conference holding poster child for the sicker side of the culture of death.
33 posted on 03/28/2005 9:29:42 PM PST by Ragnorak
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To: Jacksonville Patriot

I could have sworn I saw a clip of George Felos on a program called "God in Government," arguing against Christianity in the public sphere. After reading this link below, I am quite sure it was him.


http://66.218.71.225/search/cache?p=george+felos+atheist&ei=UTF-8&u=www.mediaculpa.com/archives.php%3Fid%3DA2004101&w=george+felos+atheist&d=B24A5D1E9D&icp=1&.intl=us


34 posted on 03/28/2005 9:30:45 PM PST by followerofchrist
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To: surelyclintonsbaddream

Ping.


36 posted on 03/28/2005 9:32:41 PM PST by scott7278 ("Please disperse...there is nothing to see here.")
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To: Jacksonville Patriot

PART II

FELOS LOOKING BEAUTIFUL AFTER BEING BLESSED BY HOLY WATER

37 posted on 03/28/2005 9:35:45 PM PST by Fred
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To: Jacksonville Patriot

I thought Kevorkian was a creepy looking guy. He is so weird I think most people wouldn't fall for him. Felos is creepy but so smooth about it. By saying she looked beautiful on her deathbed he is furthering the myth that her death is peaceful and wonderful. He is such a sick man. I think the devil's in charge of that one.


38 posted on 03/28/2005 9:36:08 PM PST by gnan4d
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To: HiTech RedNeck
It's tied to Jewish Passover

Yes it is, but it is also tied to some pagan high holy day to do with their goddess Ishtar, which some believe is where the name Easter came from.

39 posted on 03/28/2005 9:47:26 PM PST by PistolPaknMama (Will work for cool tag line.)
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To: E=MC<sup>2</sup>

"He must really fixate on those WWII death camp photos"

Yeah, they are like porn to him. Beautiful, a real turn on.


40 posted on 03/28/2005 9:47:39 PM PST by garjog
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