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djeter
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Not long ago, in a book review that featured reading selections from A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr., I offered a reading selection that featured an exchange between the abbot of a monastery thousands of years in the future and a young mother who is going to euthanize her baby to end prolonging a death from exposure to radiation. It is a stark confrontation: on the one side the Church and on the other a perfect case for euthanasia. And yet the Abbot achieves something here that needs to be repeated again and again in the Church’s confrontation with the culture of death and its false gods of expedient mercy.
That passage was still in my mind when I read a Sally Thomas essay about euthanasia. It also recalled another powerful piece by Thomas Merton on the death of his father. Tying in all together was the thought of what these testaments to faith were teaching me and the lessons we all need to bring to those who see the choice between atheism and accepting Jesus as Lord to be an intellectual exercise. There’s more to the culture of death than abortion.
payingattentiontothesky.com/2009/09/29/the-false-gods-of-expedient-mercy/
I hope you enjoy the various reading selections and they provide you with some talking points as you evangelize your faith.
In Christ
dj
That passage was still in my mind when I read a Sally Thomas essay about euthanasia. It also recalled another powerful piece by Thomas Merton on the death of his father. Tying in all together was the thought of what these testaments to faith were teaching me and the lessons we all need to bring to those who see the choice between atheism and accepting Jesus as Lord to be an intellectual exercise. There’s more to the culture of death than abortion.
payingattentiontothesky.com/2009/09/29/the-false-gods-of-expedient-mercy/
I hope you enjoy the various reading selections and they provide you with some talking points as you evangelize your faith.
In Christ
dj