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To: Gondring
"The Culture of DisrespectTM is loving to break down our personal rights"

There is and never has been "a right to die." This is completely a modern day phenomenon. People believing in furthering Euthanasia, have exploited the reality of technological advancements to promote their cause. Of those opposing the euthanasia movement, few if any would argue that people should be kept alive indefinitely by extraordinary means like heart and lung machines.

However, those pushing the death agenda, would prematurely and actively end the lives of certain people, who are not using extraordinary means, thus interfering with the natural death process. At NO time in the history of our country was this ever perceived as a "right." Such people place themselves above God. It doesn't get more ARROGANT than that.

31 posted on 09/21/2006 10:33:51 PM PDT by TAdams8591
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To: TAdams8591
There is and never has been "a right to die." This is completely a modern day phenomenon.

So you are saying that the early Christians who hurled themselves off cliffs to join their Lord were time-travelers who got that idea from modern-day times? Oh-Kay...

Silly me....I had just thought they were doing that centuries before the Church changed positions and banned suicide! I suppose the saints who committed suicide (e.g., Saint Pelagia of Antioch) were also time-travelers? If so, then why did Augustine of Hippo go to such tortuous lengths to justify the saints' suicides?

However, those pushing the death agenda[...]

You bring up the "death agenda" as a strawman but don't address those who follow the "Rights Agenda."

32 posted on 09/21/2006 11:29:19 PM PDT by Gondring (Hindus think it's abominable to use cattle for terrorism; when they detonate, Muslims call it noble.)
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