The May 2010 Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Newsletter can now be found at: http://www.euthanasiaprevention.on.ca/Newsletters/Newsletter108(May2010)(RGB).pdf Bill C-384 was soundly defeated by a vote of 228 to 59. Check how the Members of Parliament voted at: http://www.euthanasiaprevention.on.ca/HowTheyVoted.pdf On June 5, 2010, we are co-hosting the US/Canda Push-Back Seminar at the Radisson Gateway Hotel at the Seattle/Tacoma Airport. The overwhelming defeat of Bill C-384 proved that we can Push-Back the euthanasia lobby in the US and Canada and convince people that euthanasia and assisted suicide are a dangerous public policy. Register for the Seminar at: http://www.euthanasiaprevention.on.ca/2010SeminarFlyer(RGB)(LetterFormat).pdf The Schindler family are being attacked by a Florida television station and Michael Schiavo. The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition is standing in solidarity with the Schindler family. My blog comments: http://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2010/05/att
Reflections from the pastoral ministry of an Evangelical Catholic Priest.
Both Science and Religion view mysteries as central to their raison d'etre.
ReplyDeleteThe most exciting moment in science is not the Archimedian shout of Eureaka but the quizical "that's strange"; meaning new fodder for exploration and explanation.
In Religion it's more like the Philip Henslowe character in Tom Stoppard's Shakespeare in Love. When faced with events he can't understand, shrugs his shoulders and says "It's a mystery".
A mystery is not a sop for solace but a irritant for inquiry.
God was used to explain the weather, the crops, the trembling of the earth, sickness and health etc...
ReplyDeleteWe now have meteorology, agronomy, geology, medicine etc...and few civilized people seriously suggest that a God or Satan is still needed to explain any of these things.
God's role has been downsized - but theists still offer up their God to fill in the cracks about what we still don't know...things like - Where do we come from? or Where do we go when we finish this life? That is pretty much it for the BIG questions still left unanswered.
The existence of god is essentially reduced to an argument from ignorance (you can substitute "awe" for "ignorance", but the effect is pretty much the same).
This article is just an elaborate appeal to ignorance. Yawn.
Cheers...Martin