The Meaning of Life 4
Welcome to the final part of PETER BRIETBART’S interview with Professor A C GRAYLING. Here we ask what Eutopia might look like, what lies in store for the future of humanity, where the best philosophy...
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Oregon suicide woman ‘ignored God’
In an ideal world we should have absolute freedom to choose when and how to die in dignified manner if we have a compelling reason to do so. Unfortunately, there are far too few places where euthanasia...
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Euthanasia: Canada’s ‘dreadful’ court ruling
Christians in Canada have reacted with horror to the Supreme Court’s decision on February 6 to overturn Canada’s prohibition on physician-assisted suicide. The plaintiff’s in the case were Lee Carter,...
View Article‘So much universe, and so little time’
Terry Pratchett, who died this week aged 66, was not one of those aggressive ‘new atheists’ Christian fundamentalists are constantly shrieking about. Strange, really, that he never became a key target...
View ArticleRenowned British secularist Lord Avebury dies aged 87
Lord Avebury, pictured above, left, with the National Secular Society’s Keith Porteous Wood, was an honorary associate of the NSS who, in 2009, was awarded joint Secularist of the Year (with Evan...
View ArticleBishop warns of consequences of doctor-assisted suicide
Catholics could be denied last rites and funerals if they undergo doctor-assisted suicide according to Canadian Archbishop Terrence Prendergast of Ottawa, above. According to this report, the Church...
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Help this campaign to end assisted dying ban in the UK
Last year, because assisted dying is illegal mainly due to religious opposition in the UK, Jeffrey Spector, pictured above with his wife Elaine, was forced to travel to the Dignitas clinic in...
View ArticleDie-with-dignity former nun targeted by religious fanatics
A right-to-die campaigner and former nun Kate Tobin, 50, above, claims she has been targeted by ‘religious fanatics’ who say it’s wrong for her to want to take her own life. The Irish Mirror reports...
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Oh Canada, what have you done now to annoy Catholics?
You’ve just ‘officially crossed the boundary into a place in which the sick, the suffering and dying can be legally dispatched by lethal injection or a glass of liquid poison’ by allowing the nation’s...
View ArticlePolitician says he knows ‘for a fact’ that God does not exist
John Halligan, above, Ireland’s Minister of State for Training, Skills and Innovation, has outraged faith-heads by claiming that God does not exist, and that some people in the pro-life movement are...
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Doctor-assisted suicide: bishop slams ‘culture of death’
The Hawaii Senate voted overwhelmingly this week to advance a bill permitting physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients – despite strong opposition from the Catholic Church. Honolulu...
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High Court judge criticised for lenient euthanasia sentence
Earlier this month pharmacist Bipin Desai, above, was cleared of murdering his 85-year-old father, who ‘had a solid and firm wish to die.’ Mr Justice Green, according to this report, found that Desai...
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Man who ended his life at 104 did not believe in an afterlife
I was delighted to learn that Australian biologist David Goodall was accompanied to Switzerland for his assisted suicide this week by Philip Nitschke, Director of Exit International, who revealed to...
View ArticleEnding life support: Christian doctor criticises court ruling
Legal permission will no longer be needed to end life support for patients in a permanent vegetative state when relatives and doctors agree it should be turned off, the UK’s highest court has ruled....
View ArticlePetition demands that the Catholic Church returns to basic ‘truths’
HELL exists for sure, homosexuality remains ‘contrary to natural law and Divine Revelation’ and contraception, under no circumstances, should ever be allowed. These, and a whole bunch of other issues,...
View ArticleUK politician wants Gibraltar to retain draconian abortion laws
GIBRALTAR, a British overseas territory on the tip of the Iberian Peninsula, has a draconian anti-abortion law, one of the toughest in Europe. Gibraltarian women seeking an abortion are currently...
View ArticleSpain moves to legalise euthansia. Catholics are horrified.
LAST December, after Spain’s Socialist and left wing parties entered a coalition, Cardinal Antonio Cañizares Llovera, above, warned that ‘Spain would cease being Spain’ if Catholicism were to be...
View ArticleSpain set to provide euthanasia as a health system ‘benefit’
SPANISH religious groups and conservative politicians are reportedly horrified that a euthanasia bill they have vigorously been opposing was approved by the government last Thursday. Defending the law,...
View Article‘Pro-lifer’ lawyer says UK judges should ‘never do theology’
ROGER Kiska, above, a Canadian-Slovak lawyer who does work for the fanatical UK-based Christian Concern, has criticised a judge for not taking into account the Catholic beliefs of the family of a...
View ArticleDespite Christian & right-wing opposition Spain approves euthanasia
LAST December we reported that Spain’s Health Minister, Salvador Illa, above, strongly defended a vote to legalise euthanasaia and assisted suicide, saying that they would be integrated into the...
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