Ergo…the gal on life support who can’t possibly feed herself and has no quality of life….and no forseeable chance to be “fixed” within her lifetime. Pulling the plug so to speak is compassion. It is also trusting in God to do his work of mercy with that person. An example of how your idea might go wrong goes like this. A doctor discovers a drug that allows people to live indefinitely and with a healthy activity level and look. Do you choose to do so? as a christian? I don’t….but removing one’s self from the drug by asking the Dr. to do so is not “murder” by either one of us, but rather an act of faith, a belief in something better.

It might be said that compassion could be extended the same way if a 12 y.o. girl were raped and brutaly murdered. Say the girl’s mother wants the death penalty. Those “in the action” are not acting on compassion but vengance; and that is the Lords.

In the words of Ghandi, and is evidenced by the current situation in Lebanon, “An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind”. We must above all as Christians I believe try to understand and love and to curb our natural tendencies towards anger and revenge.

But defintiely glad you added to the “Manifesto”, a good birthday present to me.

As to your original purpose I agree “Church and State must be seperate in their legal nature always, but in the sense that morality/religion can’t influence it on an individual level is ludicrous and will never be….unless the frenchies take over that is….

Another question, what is “the church” in your mind these days?

I see the “churches”, and it makes me sad, but I must confess it probably works better that way in a pragmatic sense.

oh well gotta work…Jacob

I suppose it’s more implicit that I’m saying what I think about the political involvement here…and in the next political post, further relevance of this post to “politics” will be seen.