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Posted on 03/27/2005 9:59:01 PM PST by churchillbuff
I know that, strictly speaking, a Christian martyr is one killed for explicitly professing Christ. But I believe Terri is being killed by people who hate Christian beliefs (and hence Christianity), and want to return us to a pre-Christian pagan "ethic." The fact that her family has sent Catholic priests and brothers, and pro-life stalwarts out to speak for them, has intensified the anti-Terry zeal of the culture-of-death supporters in the media and the liberal establishment. If you can judge a martyr by his or her enemies, the demented fiend Felos (who said yesterday that the starving Terri is "beautiful,") certainly would put Terri up there with the people fed to the lions or crucified by Nero.
As I understand it, Terri was not a regular churchgoer before her "accident," but apparently she WAS a vocal witness for an ethic of life - "Where there's life there's hope," she said, in opposition to pulling the plug on Karen Quinlan.
So is she a Martyr for the Faith, in God's eyes? And will she be viewed as such by the Christian Church as the years -- and centuries -- go on?
I close in praying for her soul, and for peace for her faithful family.
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It appears that her ability to swallow food (far different from swallowing saliva) is beyond her abiility (particularly due to the extent of her brain damage).
It is hype that she could get better, that she could get better with therapy.
Her parents have been prolonging her process of death for years. What is so horrific about letting their daughter go to a better place?
I am a Christian.
I believe the Schindlers should let their daughter go.
I believe:
Jesus was (and is) the Son of God.
He was divine, born of a virgin, and lived a sinless life.
Furthermore, he died on the cross and rose again to serve with His Father.
You're a Christian who's like the pre-Christians who starved the mentally defective. Christianity changed that (read, e.g., How the Irish Saved Civilization); unfortunate that there are self-described Christians today who are deserting the historic christian ethic in favor of the neo-paganism advanced by attorney Felos and Jack Kevorkian.
Perhaps, perhaps not.
I am not advocating neo-paganism.
Pagans exult the body of man over the spirit.
Christians know they have a *real* home in heaven with God.
I am not advocating starving the mentally defective. If/when a person's body cannot process food on their own, they are incapable of eating. God has created the body to function and NOT to function when it is time to let go.
Terri Schiavo has lived long, long beyond normalcy, due to medical intervention, scientific and medical advancements that man has chosen subverting God's plan.
Yes you are, you dolt. Read your own post.
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