The Best From Bloggers' Best for Terri

From the pages of Times Against Humanity . . .

In this issue of Point Blank, we go beyond the parish to bring you the best of Bloggers' Best for Terri Schiavo, graciously compiled by Dory at Wittenberg Gate.

The Cold Heart of a Killer

Our emotions are a part of what constitutes our humanity, and empathy combined with conscience is what makes us humane. Cold indifference and a clinical attitude in determining who is or isn't fit to live were the hallmarks of that other civilised approach, which left the ground in the forests white from the ashes of its victims. –Catez Stephens, Allthings2all

No One Should Have To Do Tricks To Live

Terri, and humans in general, are valuable because of their "kind" rather than their substance or utility. Those who have suffered severe brain damage are just as valuable and worthy of protection as the brightest scholar or the most talented athlete because they are members of the human class. It is not necessary for Terri to "prove" her worth by talking or swallowing. She is human. –Tim, bLogicus

Survival of the Fittest Makes A Nation Unfit to Survive

A female deer will kick its own fawn to death, if it's too much competition for food. Packs of animals leave wounded or disabled members to die. Is that what humans do too? –C. Schweitzer, Insane Troll Logic

Hospice From Hell

Judges are impartial, right? Not Judge George Greer, the judge that has ordered Terri Schiavo executed by starvation and dehydration, twice. Our good ole boy judge has worked side by side as county commissioner with Barbara Sheen Todd...[who] is on the board of—you guessed it—the hospice where Terri Schiavo is kept prisoner by her husband, Michael Schiavo...Also, Judge Greer's fellow judge, Judge John Lenderman is the brother of Martha Lenderman, also on—you got it—the same hospice board...The judge also accepted as the basis of his rulings, the "opinion" of a third doctor who is the brother of a close associate of George Felos, Michael Schiavo's right-to-kill attorney, and very significantly, former Chairman of—you got it again—the same hospice board. –Hyscience

Something Michael Should Think About Besides His Belly

Life is God's gift—for God alone to take back—and so too is the ultimate end, purpose, and meaning of life a gift from God, to be found in eternal life, which comes from God alone. To try to snatch that gift away—either by force or by neglect—is a mistake that can have eternally deadly consequences. –Penitens, A Penitent Blogger

The Last Word

I am not a theologian, a philosopher, [or] a politician...I am a mother, wife, daughter and a Christian. A theologian can write persuasively about Imago Dei and how only God can know our time. A philosopher may write about natural law and our innate revulsion at the taking of a human life. A politician may debate the use of torture for terrorists that leads to death, than draw parallels to the torture of, starvation and dehydration, of those more innocent....But a Christian mother, wife, daughter asks, no, pleads to our great God for a miracle. God champions the oppressed. O Lord, Terri cries, we cry. The Lord hears our cries. –Mine & Thine

Pray and act for Terri!