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To: NYer

I wouldn’t dump on this woman for a her act either. Not everyone can be a martyr or saint; only God can judge her.

I think that this guy would be unwise to judge her action less he is willing to find himself in the same situation at the end of his life.


11 posted on 11/03/2014 2:35:30 PM PST by grumpygresh (Democrats delenda est. President zero gave us patient zero.)
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To: grumpygresh; CorporateStepsister
I wouldn’t dump on this woman for a her act either. Not everyone can be a martyr or saint; only God can judge her.

That is moral relativism, best defined by Pope Benedict XVI, commenting on (Eph 4: 14).

How many winds of doctrine have we known in recent decades, how many ideological currents, how many ways of thinking. The small boat of the thought of many Christians has often been tossed about by these waves - flung from one extreme to another: from Marxism to liberalism, even to libertinism; from collectivism to radical individualism; from atheism to a vague religious mysticism; from agnosticism to syncretism and so forth. Every day new sects spring up, and what St Paul says about human deception and the trickery that strives to entice people into error (cf. Eph 4: 14) comes true.

Today, having a clear faith based on the Creed of the Church is often labeled as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, that is, letting oneself be "tossed here and there, carried about by every wind of doctrine", seems the only attitude that can cope with modern times. We are building a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one's own ego and desires.

Ping to post #8.

This woman was pressured into taking her own life and manipulated by those who are pushing an agenda. They want to eliminate all suTffering. Very nice, but very unrealistic. The push for mercy killing is utterly pagan. Christians and all reasonable people must oppose it.

30 posted on 11/03/2014 3:21:39 PM PST by NYer ("You are a puff of smoke that appears briefly and then disappears." James 4:14)
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