The Anglican Church of Canada has published a study guide for its pamphlet “In Sure and Certain Hope”, or, how to commit suicide inclusively with diverse missionality, while listening with a generous pastoral response as we journey together incarnationally.
In keeping with its floundering response to same-sex marriage, the church isn’t particularly interested in whether suicide is right or wrong: instead, it prefers to indulge in conversations about it, long and boring enough to drive all but the most resilient to….. suicide.
The ACoC is an expert in suicide, of course, since it has been committing it institutionally for years.
From here:
Created as a companion piece to In Sure and Certain Hope, the Anglican resource on physician-assisted dying, the study guide encourages groups to consider the topic in terms of pastoral response, rather than ethical debate.
“What does it mean to ‘be present’ to someone who is dying, and to ‘provide care’? What care do I want to experience when I am dying? Can I provide care for somebody who has very different values from mine?”
These are some of the questions posed in a new study guide aimed at helping Anglicans reflect on and respond to Canadian legislation regarding medical assistance in dying.
The Rev. Eileen Scully, director of faith, worship and ministry for the Anglican Church of Canada, who provided staff support to the team who created the guide, says changes in legislation have helped to open conversations about “how do I envision how I want to be cared for in my death, in my dying?”
“[The] study guide does not address ‘the debate about the moral appropriateness’ of medically-assisted dying.”
In other words, it completely avoids the only theological issue that matters.
A study guide that advises against studying assures failure.
If one is Roman Catholic, one can “envision” a Charter challenge;
already christened a “double standard” by the MSM:
which means no standard permitted for Christians, Roman or Protestant, of conscience.
V. ‘Lifesitenews’, January 17, 2019, ‘Campaign Life Coalition”s warning re.
newly appointed Federal Liberal “extremist Justice Minister” who voted vs. Bill C-16 because it was not comprehensive enough. Chilling prospect.
Sick children will be next;children already are Cultural Marxist targets in the womb.
Further to which: M’Cheyne’s Gospel for this day is + Matthew 19 in which our LORD Jesus Christ not only defines and upholds the Biblical covenant of marriage as found in Genesis; but also affirms the spiritual and physical inviolability of children. who, when brought to Him, undoubtedly some among them would be ill:
“that He should put His Hands on them and, pray”.
The Hippocratic Oath has to be thus Inspired by “Suffer the little children… to come unto Me”. Bill C-16 is not “Me”.