Posted on 05/06/2014 10:10:31 AM PDT by NYer
There are bad ideas, really bad ideas, and then there's this...
Two years ago, the Rector, the Revd Jacqueline Birdseye, and her parishioners re-examined the issue. She said on Tuesday: "It seemed that everybody wanted it to go ahead; we had a PCC meeting, and the vote was unanimous. We spent a long time just making sure that we got the procedure right.Yes, let's put Jesus' crucifixion and Judas' suicide on the same plane. That sounds like a brilliant idea. Never mind that Jesus said it would've been better if he had not been born.
"Back then, many people regarded suicide as an unforgivable sin; but people's attitudes have changed. I have known several families who have been touched by suicide, and we felt that it was the right thing to have in church. Churches are not just about angels and Easter happiness."
Where there are worse ideas to be executed, the C of E will execute them. And how.
And by the way, you know you can’t get to heaven on roller skates.
The baby pasture wanted to watch TV. Dad told him, “It’s pasture bedtime, son.”
nully, mortal sin is based on your doing something gravely wrong, knowing it’s gravely wrong and choosing to do it anyway. You’re probably going to die if you jump off a burning tower, but at that point you may not have much if any choice in the matter of whether you’re going to die anyway. (See the World Trade Center, 9/11/01.)
Yes. Despite my lack of faith, the medieval Pope’s stance gave me some slight comfort that dark day.
LOL!!
There is such a thing as a "Noble" suicide. a scriptural example would be Samson, a modern one might be Thích Quảng Đức, or the soldier that throws himself on a hand grenade to save another.
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