I despise zealous conservative Christians, those loathsome rats, arrogant in morals and ignorant of spirituality. As a lot, they are a crystalline picture of evil. But let me think like a good Christian for a second - one who is conscientious.
It is God, not humans, who decides life and death. So what business do we have in intervening in this divine plan? Terri Shiavo's heart attack - fatal if not for the heroic and timely measures of her doctors - was a sure sign from the Almighty that her time on Earth had come. God intended Terri to die fifteen years ago, and we, in an amazing act of hubris, refused. Letting her die was not murder, no, it was an act of respect for God.
So when do Christians have a moral responsibility to protect the life of the meek, and when does doing so contradict divine fate? We have a moral obligation to protect the meek because God has a purpose for every human life. Yet technology, and especially medical technology, is rapidly increasing our ability to shape fate to our own liking, which may not be to His.
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