The referendum on assisted dying is coming, and with it a flood of demagogic announcements. As the church has become involved in public debate, I think it is important to remember some facts about the problematic attitude of the Catholic Church towards suffering. I’m not referring to the long-ago Middle Ages, but to the long-ago year… 2017! It was then that Mother Teresa was consecrated as a saint.
"What’s wrong with her? Wasn’t she doing well?"
She thought she was doing good, I’ll give her that. When she was criticized that her funeral homes in India, despite the hundreds of millions of donations she received, do not meet the minimum hygiene and health standards, that they do not offer pain relief to the dying, her response was as follows:
"There is something beautiful in seeing the poor accept their lot, to suffer it like Christ’s Passion. The world gains much from their suffering,”
There is no doubt that her life’s work was to single-handedly bring thousands of people “closer to Jesus” through suffering.
Dear Christians, admit what you are secretly crying out for; That in the next life you will be rewarded for all the troubles of this world, which means that suffering in pain in this world only brings you closer to God’s grace.
Because of this attitude, you are not, do not want to and will never improve palliative care! I find it extremely vile and hypocritical when Christian opponents of the voluntary choice to end life use this argument, knowing that religious doctrine opposes it.
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Posted by Dodocletian
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Yes yes vse super, kristjani lahko zarad mene z veseljem uzivajo v hudih mukah bolezni tut desetletja ce jim to pase, jim bom mahal iz pekla ko eventuelno pridejo v nebesa. Jaz pa bi v taki situaciji raje sus morfija, najlepsa hvala.
Življenje je trpljenje
Ne vprašaj zdravnika za njegovo mnenje
Raje sprejemaj slabe zakone
Medtem ko javno zdravstvo tone
Zapis je na ravni slabe propagande.
Katoliski svetniki so… katoliski!? In ne posvetni, moralni in humanitarni?