Pope Ratzi, along with most right-to-lifers wish to impose their god beliefs on others when they force people to remain on feeding tubes even though they are comatose and brain damaged or in terrible suffering from incurable illness. They think it is a “noble” thing to suffer and that euthanasia and “pulling the plug” are “false solutions” for the terminally ill. While I am not completely certain where I stand on euthanasia, when it comes to people in vegetative states who are brain dead, their illogical thinking in these matters is perplexing.

Pope: Euthanasia ‘false solution’ to suffering

The controversy is an ethical one, and once again we are debating the right for the terminally ill and dying patients to not suffer. In the case of this recent story the news article refers to, a woman has been on a feeding tube for nearly 20 years and has no hope of recovery. Her father wants to let her rest in peace, let her go and accept reality of her condition. But Pope Ratzi and those who hold beliefs in a supreme god of suffering and sado/masochism, Ratzi said in his Sunday blessing that love can help confront pain and that “no tear, from those who suffer and those who are with them, is lost before God.”

God botherers say these things without evidence, without explanation except that ending the life of a terminally ill person, no matter if that life is already gone without the assistance of devices shown in photo here, is a bad thing even when it comes to ending suffering. While euthanasia is a more complex and ethical debate, keeping an otherwise dead person in a perpetual and often lengthy vegetative state via a feeding tube seems more of a “sin”. The god believers are also once again contradicting themselves, saying that going to meet one’s maker is an awesome and the most ultimate experience which is the goal of all believers, but on the other hand they attempt to keep brain dead and terminally ill in this world at the price of pointless great pain and suffering.

I just don’t get it.

Out- out are the lights- out all!
And, over each quivering form,
The curtain, a funeral pall,
Comes down with the rush of a storm,
While the angels, all pallid and wan,
Uprising, unveiling, affirm
That the play is the tragedy, “Man,”
And its hero the Conqueror Worm. – Edgar Allan Poe, ‘The Conqueror Worm’

In Africa, there is a child. In the eye of the child, a worm burrows.

The worm is called the Loa loa filariasis, AKA the African eye worm.

Read of it and shudder. It’s horrifying, to think that such a creature can infest our bodies, and cause such horrors.

I have spoken of such before. But the world abounds with these creatures; so much so, that it beggars the imagination that anyone would proclaim the planet earth as having been designed for us, when it is so clearly inimical to our presence.

This is why an honest, critical eye (no entendre intended) to the alleged ‘design’ of the world punctures the balloon of ID, reduces the religious swoon to simple melodramatic fainting, and demolishes this notion of an ‘all-loving’ gwad into dust.

It is not enough that we are wormfood after we die, but that we are wormfood while we are alive as well.

And, as we are coming close to Darwin’s birthday, I will close this post with his words:

“I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars”

Till the next post, then.

I was thinking on this the other day and have determined that It can be so much fun if you all join in.

After having drunk from the wellspring of reason for a few years. I realized that I was not in any manner able to believe or accept a god or higher power of any kind. But while reading the bible as so many of us have done I concluded that I never believed in the Resurrection. Oh I tried but no cigar as they say And I was Catholic and an altar boy.

What it was really is that I had been fully in awe, as a young un, of the space program.

I knew that heaven was not just right there in spite of what I was taught in Catholic school. Fortunately Catholic school did not mix science and religion. To us we had religion every day but science was all together separate. We learned about the speed of light and all that goes with it. When we learned about the estimated distances of the universe I began to question the bible stories. They didn’t measure up to the scientific knowledge we were learning. In the back of my mind, or maybe in my subconscious, I knew the bible was just wrong and made-up. If it had been directed by an omni-anything god then why was it full of inaccuracies? Thiis I ask all of You then.

What story dio you have for us about your non-belief?

My personal favorite is the resurection. In my opinoin people do NOT come back to life after 36 hours.Ahh woop[s
Also Nasa has been looking for this cat but to no avail. I’m sorry but people do not come back from the dead. And it is as simple as that. Please list your responses. lets have some fun. The more absurd the better. I thnk that monkey thing from India is good too