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Quote:Pope Francis Calls Euthanasia Sign of 'Throwaway Culture' That Sees Elderly as 'Disposable'
A growing movement to legalize euthanasia across European countries prompted Pope Francis to call the act a sign of "throwaway culture" that treats elderly populations as "disposable," in a recent interview.
"What is (deemed) useless is discarded. Old people are disposable material; they are a nuisance. Not all of them, but of course, in the collective subconscious of the throwaway culture, the old, the terminally ill, and unwanted children, too; they are returned to the sender before they are born," the pope told COPE, a radio station owned by the Spanish bishops' conference, according to Catholic Review.
Pope Francis' comments come weeks after campaigners in Italy launched a petition to reverse a law banning assisted suicide, making the country the latest in Europe to move toward legalizing the act.
So far, the petition has received over 750,000 signatures, which is enough to hold a public referendum on the issue next year. According to the news outlet, polls have suggested that as many as 90 percent of Italians back the legalization of the assisted suicide.
https://www.newsweek.com/pope-francis-ca...le-1626509
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"