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To: muawiyah

1. Just because people have decided half a century later that Euthanasia is ok, somehow excuses the behaviour of the Catholic Church?

2. In essence you are saying that the Church is vulnerable to secular trends like any other organization?


3 posted on 05/11/2012 2:03:10 PM PDT by MetaThought
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To: MetaThought
Priests are; edumacators are; incarcerators are ~ the Catholic Church, per se, it's difficult to say ~ got a couple of billion members with a lot on their mind. Not all of them are out there castrating guys.

There were a lot of medical and quasi-medical folks around in the 40s and 50s who thought it to be the sina qua non of ethical medical practice to sterilize American Indian women ~ that way you'd have fewer babies growing up to be alcoholics.

Then there were the folks who thought all stray Indian babies ought to be adopted out to loving white folks.

That worked ~ frequently the family would discover their daughter had some health problems and inherited differences that just didn't fit a pattern they could deal with.

Let me tell you, a castrated gay guy in the Netherlands is the least of the stories out of that place. Failure to properly evaluate the German physicians they let into the country post WWII is probably the source of more horror than you can imagine.

Not to protect the Catholics, but stuff happens ~ and nobody could have done anything about it because, frankly, they were in a pond with alligators up to their eyeballs at the time.

7 posted on 05/11/2012 2:13:56 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: MetaThought

BTW, the Dutch medical community had already decided that euthanasia was OK decades before ~ it just took time for them to figure out how to weasle-worm their way into making it all legal.


8 posted on 05/11/2012 2:15:17 PM PDT by muawiyah
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How about this, the Dutch have all gone insane and no longer have any moral ground for judging anything ~ not today, not in the past, nor for the future.

Comparing and contrasting one horror with another is an exercise in futility when it comes to Netherlands and Belgium.

57 posted on 12/03/2012 2:57:40 PM PST by muawiyah
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