The following comes from an August 14 Catholic News Agency article:
Amid strong Christian opposition to the legalization of assisted suicide in the U.K., former Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey has broken away. He took part in a video for a group backing assisted suicide and claims that it is “profoundly Christian” to help people end their lives.
“There’s nothing noble about excruciating pain and I think we need as a nation to give people the right to decide their own fate,” the former head clergyman of the Church of England said in a video for the pro-assisted suicide campaign group Dignity in Dying.
“In my view it is a profoundly Christian and moral thing to devise a law that enables people if they so choose to end their lives with dignity,” he said, according to the U.K.-based Premier Christian Radio.
Under current law in the United Kingdom, it is illegal to encourage or to help someone attempt to take their own life. On September 11 the House of Commons will debate and vote on a private member’s bill to legalize assisted suicide.
Like the Catholic Church, the Church of England opposes changes to current U.K. law. On July 16 it urged churchgoers to contact their MPs to oppose the bill. James Newcome, the Anglican Bishop of Carlisle and the group’s lead bishop on health care, said legalization would create a “very uncertain and dangerous” future for the most vulnerable, such as the elderly and the disabled.
Just like a broken and separated branch cannot live without the tree, so too do other faiths wither away because they do not belong to the Catholic Church. All Protestant faiths once believed that contraception, birth control, sodomy, divorce, and abortion were evil and sinful, but now they have all taken the poisonous pill of relativeness. Unfortunately the Catholic Church may take this pill next October.
I wonder what his opinion is on the purpose and meaning of the suffering and crucifixion of Christ? Obviously the bishop doesn’t understand the concept of redemptive suffering.
Protestants do not understand suffering. For them there are not supposed to be crosses in one’s life. Like the commercial, ‘They have no time for the pain’. They ignore Christ’s words; Take up your cross daily and follow me. They want their Heaven on earth, and are not that serious about eternal life, since they believe they are already saved because of their faith.
Dear “Bishop” Carey, The medical field is advanced enough today to control the pain of terminal patients. There is no need to end life because of it. I work for a hospice and have NEVER seen a patient in unbearable pain. Every terminal patient I work with is treated to comfortable. Any pain is controlled appropriately and effectively with meds. It is incomprehensible that you who purport to be a man of God would suggest anything like this. May God have mercy on your soul.
There is obviously an agenda with “assisted suicide” that the gullible fail to see. For those people who have no moral qualm to taking their own life, there are, and always have been, many ways to do so on their own, WITHOUT a law, i.e. buy a gun and shoot yourself; swallow pills. But the gullible want someone else to do the dirty deed for them, and fail to see the agenda at work in the assisted suicide movement. These are the people who will doom US.
“There’s nothing noble about excruciating pain and I think we need as a nation to give people the right to decide their own fate…” This false clergyman is not even a follower of Christ! Was Christ the master of His own fate? Did He teach His followers to tell God what to do, and be false masters of their own fates? Did he not say, in the Garden of Gethsemane, “not my will, Father, but Thine be done?” Was He “noble,” when bloody and beaten, scourged, and nailed to a cross between two criminals, suffering and dying for our Salvation? It is the duty of each Christian, to pick up one’s crosses, daily, in humility and love of God, uniting one’s daily crosses, to Christ’s, in redemptive suffering!
This is another example of “compassion” being twisted into evil. That the man wears a collar does not make him correct. His “church” is founded on acceptance of a king’s adultery, another twisted act of “compassion”.
This is not a “REAL” church it was founded by an adulteress king named Henry the VIII, the Anglicans are for the most part dead, 2% of Anglicans attend services and they are 60% of the British population!! The fastest growing faith in England is of course ISLAM, it is predicted by the year 2050 England will be an Muslim country as will the European continent not by force but by sheer birthrate of Muslims. Muslims have 6.5 children per couple as compared to white Europeans at 1.2 per couple, and they continue to pour into Italy, Greece, Germany, Belgium, Spain, England, Holland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Austria, Hungary on the other hand is building a fence along their borders to keep out the Islamic invasion, they know all to well about…