Mercy killings

What do we do when churches started accepting the practice of mercy killings:



"The Church of England took a radical step towards backing 'mercy killing' of terminally ill patients last night after one of its leading authorities said that there was a 'strong compassionate case' for voluntary euthanasia.



Canon Professor Robin Gill, a chief adviser to Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, said people should not be prosecuted for helping dying relatives who are in pain end their lives. Last week Gill was sent by Williams to give evidence to a parliamentary committee investigating euthanasia."



I cannot understand how any "Christian" could accept such barbarity. They attatch their acceptance to their conception of "compassion":



"There is a very strong compassionate case for voluntary euthanasia,' Gill told The Observer . 'In certain cases, such as that which involved Diane Pretty [the woman who was terminally ill with motor neurone disease and who campaigned for the right to be helped to die], there is an overwhelming case for it.'"



This justification is far from adequate. What concept of compassion can lead a person to take another person's life? Shouldn't compassion lead us to seek out any and all medical means that might extend this person's life? Shouldn't compassion lead us to focus a sufferer's attention on a Soverign God, rather than taking life, and death, into our own hands? Deborah Annetts, chief executive of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society, says:



"'Christianity is about compassion, and one has only to look at the sad circumstances in the Blackburn case to recognise that the current law is not a compassionate response.'"



True Christianity is about far more than just compassion, especially the compassion people like Annetts believe in. With their concept of compasison, God would never let any harm or pain come upon any human. He would never allow His children to suffer. This is not how God works. His compassion is some much more complex than ours. Christianity is mostly about a holy, soverign God. Accepting this barbarity is an affront to everything Christianity is, not a compliment, as the Church of England seems to believe.



"'It worries us when organised religion is not sharing the heartfelt view of mainstream faith-based opinion in this country,' the clerics noted."



What? What kind of inebriated religions conforms its moral standards to that of the "mainstream faith-based opinion of the country"? With that logic, the Church of England would have been front and center at the Nazi rallys of the 30's. Where is "religion" going?