RE: Does human life have INHERENT value?
June 21, 2015 at 10:42 pm
(This post was last modified: June 21, 2015 at 10:58 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(June 21, 2015 at 10:15 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(June 21, 2015 at 9:54 pm)Chuck Wrote: All earthly life has intrinsic value except when it is inconvenient for the Catholic Church to let that life be preserved, in which case Catholic Church would just kill it in as painful a way as humans have ever contrived in the name of saving its "soul", while suddenly becoming all quiet about its "value".
The Catholic Church does not condone killing unless it is in absolute self defense or justifiable war.
The past few popes have spoken vehemently against the death penalty.
And which was it, absolute self defense, or justifiable war, that made it okay for the Catholic Church to try it's very own hand in burning hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of witches and heretics when the Catholic Church actually had the power to call up holy wars and pronounce death sentences?
As to the last few popes, it was very noble of those holy fathers to abhor killing by others a coupLe of hundred years AFTER progress of humanity through the Age of Enlightenment, which the Catholic Church abhorred also, had in most places deprived the Catholic Church of its traditional power to call up holy wars and pronounce death sentences.
