This Good Friday, we commemorate two ritual murders: Jesus of Nazareth and Theresa Schiavo.

Where are the people who lobby against domestic violence or, as it used to be called, wife-beating? Like the other feminists, they are uncharacteristically silent. They have apparently had a mass change of heart, and now endorse the indissolubility of marriage and the patriarchal authority of husbands, overthrowing 200 years of feminist rhetoric going back to Mary Wollstonecraft — who described women as the "convenient slaves" of their husbands.

Mrs. Schiavo's problem appears to be that she is an inconvenient slave. But she doesn't even seem that inconvenient. She's brain-damaged, but not particularly obnoxious. She doesn't nag or overspend on Michael's credit card. Terri needs to be fed, but then again, Michael has been offered $1 million to walk away and never trouble himself with her again. He turned it down.

Euthanasia is the right to a dead relative. Why do people want such things? Because every life confers an obligation on us. Every life is a "who" — someone who can do something unique and unpredictable, who can exert power over me. You could say that atheists' enthusiasm for euthanasia is their backhanded recognition of the human soul.

This Atrocity is Judicial Murder by Starvation and Dehydration

ALL JUDGES INVOLVED SHOULD BE IMPEACHED FOR CONSIPIRACY TO MURDER

Pinellas county, Florida subhuman murderer Judgenfuhrer Greer:
"We don't care if she got up and screamed, "Stop!"
Our motto is: 'Mors Vincet Omnia'. Listen closely, slaves.
YOU LIVE AT OUR MERCY.
Tonight begins Holocaust Remembrance Month with our "Perfect Murder".
Never forget that we Judgenfuhrers in Florida --who let you live at our convenience--
celebrate Holocaust Remembrance Month with our worldwide public
2 week starvation-execution of a young handicapped woman.
Now that America's honor is finished in the eyes of the World, thanks to me and my black-robed Mullahs,
you have no more hope. So you WILL serve us,
and then quietly and meekly die after we have enough of your money
or are in sudden need your organs for ourselves or the PRC."

Theresa Marie Schindler - December 3, 1963 - Murdered by Judges for NOTHING: March 31, 2005 (after Judicial torture)

Official flag of Pinella county, Florida - The State of Human Torture and Prolonged Starvation

" 9. Between September 1939 and April 1945 the defendants Karl Brandt, Blome, Brack, and Hoven unlawfully, willfully, and knowingly committed war crimes, as defined by Article II of Control Council Law No. 10, in that they were principals in, accessories to, ordered, abetted, took a consenting part in, and were connected with plans and enterprises involving the execution of the so-called "euthanasia" program of the German Reich in the course of which the defendants herein murdered hundreds of thousands of human beings, including nationals of German-occupied countries. This program involved the systematic and secret execution of the aged, insane, incurably ill, of deformed children, and other persons, by gas, lethal injections, and diverse other means in nursing homes, hospitals, and asylums. Such persons were regarded as "useless eaters" and a burden to the German war machine. The relatives of these victims were informed that they died from natural causes, such as heart failure. German doctors involved in the "euthanasia" program were also sent to Eastern occupied countries to assist in the mass extermination of Jews."

[ Count 2, section 9, of the indictment in "the Doctor's Trial" at the Nuremberg war crimes trial;
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ]

HEALTHFUL DRINKS WITH WARM MEALS EATEN SINCE THE ORDER-TO-MURDER-AN-INVALID BY JUDGE GREER
BEFORE HIS GREER'S and THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM'S Latest VICTIM WAS MURDERED
Scumbag Torturer and Murderer-At-Will, The Imperial Pinellas County Judgenfuhrer Greer ..... 60
............................................................................................ Terri Shiavo 0
............................................................................................ Lee Malvo 55
...................................................................................... Scott Peterson 54

There isn't any death except Christ that is an offering unto God. No human can be used as a sacrifice. And though Terri may have been in the state she was in, was not perfect and therefore could never had been acceptable as a sacrifice.

I see. It's a Protestant-Catholic thing.

The Catholic view is that it's our job to offer everything to God, every day. "My works, prayers, joys, and sufferings…" Our whole lives.

You're right to say what we offer is not perfect; but it's what we have, and God honors our gift when it's offered through Christ, in Whom it is perfected.

That's why our earthly suffering (and Terri's) can have supernatural merit. It is an awesome, shocking thing, but Catholics believe it's true.

Hmm, and what makes you think I am Protestant?

I just happen to believe thay Christ died so that there isn't any sacrifices to be made. Our suffering doesn't make God happy. It's because of sin we suffer.

I don't know if you go to a Protestant church. But your idea of Christ's role is Protestant—I'd guess Calvinist. Your view is popular both in Presbyterian and Nordic churches.

Catholics believe (with you) that our suffering does not make God happy, and also that our suffering is caused by original sin. But He permits suffering, because it was always part of His plan that Christ would ennoble it. The Crucifixion made suffering into something we can offer to God by accepting it and joining it to Christ's Passion.

Some of my best friends are Calvinists (no kidding).

And I'm a big fan of Viking kitties.

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