Sunday, March 27, 2005
A Good Death?
I've been reading in different places (here for example) that death is normal, even good ultimately. Let us not be disillusioned on this holy day. Death is the enemy. If death were a good thing Christ would not have had to conquer it by his resurrection.
Let's be frank here, the idea of a good death is nothing but PC talk by people who don't want to be bothered with all that god stuff or with the suffering of others. It's easier to say "Death will end their suffering" than to raise one finger to help bear another's burden. It's easier to say "death is a normal part of life" than to face abject evil of it and its cause. If this were done, we would have to face our inadequacies, our own depths of sin, and our desperate need for redemption.
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Let's be frank here, the idea of a good death is nothing but PC talk by people who don't want to be bothered with all that god stuff or with the suffering of others. It's easier to say "Death will end their suffering" than to raise one finger to help bear another's burden. It's easier to say "death is a normal part of life" than to face abject evil of it and its cause. If this were done, we would have to face our inadequacies, our own depths of sin, and our desperate need for redemption.
# posted by Joe Florida @ 8:08 AM 
