(December 3, 2024 at 9:11 pm)TheWhiteMarten Wrote:Unless it's a woman or girl who might die in childbirth, even after a rape, or is sufferring endless abuse from a husband, which will likely end in her untimely death. Then it's "man the fuck up, our imaginary sky daddy doesn't like abortions or divorce".Quote:he official dogmatic line is that assisted dying ticks all three boxes for being a mortal (rather than a venial) sin - it is grave, it is done with knowledge of the gravity of the act, and it is done with consent.
Right; the mortal sin being the taking of a life, hence my statement that secularists/atheists tend to fundamentally misunderstand the value that Christians' put on human life.
Christian plantation owners seemd happy enough to cite the bible to jusitfy owning slaves as well, so yes, again I think you're right for once, I have a real hard time understanding what many theists including christians mean, when they talk about valuing human life.
As others have pointed out, sufferring doesn't seem to bother them, as much as adherence to archaic doctrine and dogma from bronze age patriarchal Bedhouin societies.
