(December 3, 2024 at 6:26 pm)TheWhiteMarten Wrote:So doeas slavery what's your point?Quote:Why can't the (Catholic) clergy understand the notion of assisted dying? Are they stupid, or are they inventing a problem so they can "solve" it and thus create the illusion of usefulness in society?
It's not a matter of "understanding" and to answer the second question - neither. Their position predates the modern euthanasia position by thousands of years.
Quote:I do think a more accurate summary would be that secularists/atheists have a hard time understanding the value of life as it is understood in a Christian worldview.Now there I can't argue, they can cause untold misery suffering and death with the archaic dogma and doctrine of patricarchal Bedhouin societies, then get all bent out of shape over a woman deliberately shedding a microscopic clutch of insentient cells from the lining of her uterus. They would rather let someone suffer unimginable pain then offer them the choice of a dignified end when there is no hope of recovery or any quality of life, but condemn countless people to death through willful ignorance, such as the risible claim condoms are part of their imagined supernatural curse (sin). They condemn and demonsise people because of why they are, if they are bron gay for example, then offer a free pass into a eternity for literally anyone, no matter what they've done, as long they geneuinely repent at the end.
This might be the first thing you've said, that I actually do agree with, though I can't speak for other atheists of course.