After a year of studying, conversation, theological reflection and discernment, the Anglican Church of Canada has produced a report on Canada’s recent law permitting state sponsored assisted suicide. The report boldly proclaims that it is a reality – it is actually happening. Really! It is!
The ACoC is neither for nor against euthanasia because it doesn’t want to upset anyone; upsetting people is reserved for same-sex marriage.
From here:
In a nod to changing times, the Anglican Church of Canada’s latest report on physician-assisted dying, rather than opposing the practice, recognizes it as a reality. The report offers reflections and resources around assisted dying and related issues, such as palliative care.
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In a statement accompanying its release, Primate Fred Hiltz acknowledged that everyone would like the fact that the argued neither against nor in favour physician-assisted dying. “A report like this is not going to please everybody because it doesn’t give a direct answer, and that will frustrate some people,” Hiltz said. “But…to give a direct answer is, in fact, to alienate people over very sensitive and complex issue.”
The article goes on to note that the law ‘allows assisted dying only to those who are either near death or whose death is “reasonably foreseeable.”’ The Anglican Church of Canada itself falls into that category and, I understand, will soon request to be put out of its misery.
Not giving a direct answer, of course, allows room for “discovery” and “growth” – a kind of mysticism based on moral relativism.
Ultimately, they will come to the same conclusions as the wider, secular culture. It may take them a while – they may even take a circuitous, torturous route – but they will get there in the end.
After all, that is essentially what liberal Christianity is: the deification of the present culture.
Liberal Christianity within the ACoC is nothing less than apostasy and the ACoC can no longer claim to be Christian. We can be liberal or conservative in our style of worship but there is no room for either when it comes to accepting the Gospel — i,e, accepting the full authority of Scripture and the uniqueness of Jesus Christ..
No hope of any Archprimatial counsel of “long term and committed” ( re.the now self-declared ‘celibate’ Bishop of Grantham) in this case!