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> the Christian right insists that the agony be prolonged to a maximum I'm not aware of anyone of any ideological stripe who insists disproportionate medical m
by a8da6b0c91d 13y ago
> the Christian right insists that the agony be prolonged to a maximum
I'm not aware of anyone of any ideological stripe who insists disproportionate medical measures must be taken to keep somebody alive. On the other hand, the Hippocratic oath far predates Christ.
By the way, I'm not sure you understand Christianity's relationship to the bible. It's a small minority of Christians who subscribe to anything like the scriptural literalism you evoke. A lot of them happen to be American Calvinists, but they're still a small minority.
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- jbooth 13y agoI take it you don't remember the Terry Schiavo thing?
- tsotha 13y agoYou're oversimplifying. There were a lot of people on both sides who had reasons other than religion.
- jbooth 13y agoI'm folding "crass political appeal to the religious rubes" under religion for that particular case. EDIT: Her parents obviously had different motivations than religion. The 10,000,000 politicians and talking heads? Either religion or political exploitation related to religion.
- tsotha 13y agoHer husband was already in a relationship with another woman, who he wished to marry. His memory was the only source for her supposed wishes, and he was the one pushing to end her life. You don't have to be a religious fanatic to see a problem here.
- gohrt 13y agoDoes a coma preclude divorce?
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- VLM 13y agoWell, she's not going to sign the papers or get custody. Or if you have power of attorney to sign the papers there might be some conflict of interest. On obvious solution is to not get married again and just shack up. Its the more intelligent thing to do anyway.
- jbooth 13y agoSo we're not talking about the religious motivations of the bazillion people who never even met the woman anymore? We're attempting to impugn the husband's motives by implying he wanted her dead so he could date someone else? How does that even work, why would he need her dead?
- tsotha 13y agoI don't know anyone for whom it was about religion. And yeah, the husband had motives for wanting to get rid of her - both because he wanted to remarry and because of money. Is that why he did what he did? No idea. But in this case the parents should have been allowed to make the decision.
- jellicle 13y ago> Her parents obviously had different motivations than religion Actually, Schiavo's family were all extremely devout right-to-life Catholics. As should be obvious to even the casual observer, no, there wasn't anyone on the side of keeping the brain-dead vegetable plugged in except for people with particular religious views. Unfortunately there were a lot of such people in the U.S.
- jbooth 13y agoYeah, but it's their frickin daughter. I think we can give the two of them a pass for having a hard time letting go.
- omegaworks 13y agoIt doesn't matter what the scriptures say when the religion praises and sanctifies people like Mother Teresa. Suffering-worship is alive and well in Catholic practices. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Mother_Teresa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Mother_Teresa http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/04/mother-teresa-myth_n_2805697.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/04/mother-teresa-myth_...
- mcv 13y agoI think what people praise in mother Theresa is her dedication to the poor. I think most people aren't aware of many of her more controversial positions. Also it's hard to still talk about "the religion" when you separate it from its scripture; there are about as many views on Christianity as there are people in the world.