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[lightman]

This is heresy, because Christianity teaches that we are a unity of body and soul, not simply a soul "using" a body. The body matters. What we do to the body, we do to the person.

ET INCARNATUS EST...ET HOMO FACTUS EST

For me, the most profound phrases of the Creed.

[vox_freedom]

BTTT
And may God bless Terri and protect her parents and siblings.

[kstewskis]

I still get an unsettled twinge in my gut, whenever I read the inscription on Terri's marker.

Terri was taken up by God on March 31st, 2005, no matter what the euthanasia crowd or that pathetic wretch of an ex husband of hers says.

God bless her, and the Schindlers.

[Dan Lacey]

Always appreciate your threads, Salvation. God bless.

[NewCenturions]

Bump!

[livius]

This is actually a variation on an ancient heresy, which says that we are really spirits inhabiting a body. Terri couldn't communicate normally. So, her "spirit" must have left her. The body was just a shell left behind.

This is an excellent point. Gnostics have always been dualists, and since gnosticism is the modern religion - the sort of New Age glop that infests even the Catholic Church is an expression of it - it stands to reason that they would rely on the dualist argument to cover their evil.

Of course, they have always done this. Dualists could commit the most obscene acts and announce that they weren't really doing these things; it was just their bodies, and their spirits in the meantime remained pure.

Ancient heresies never go away; they just bubble up again with a different guise and a different evil.

[Gerish]

Still praying for Terri and the countless disabled like her. God Bless Father Pavone, a wonderful priest who had the guts to speak the truth when Terri's own Bishop of her diocese hid under a rock.