According to the most recent issue of Time magazine, some Catholics in India plan to protest the Da Vinci Code movie if their government does not ban the movie. Their protest will take the form of fasting, starving to death if necessary, until the movie is banned.
In the eyes of the Catholic God, if somebody wilfully starves himself to death, does he die in a state of mortal sin and spend an eternity burning in hell?
If not, what distinguishes this sort of suicide from other sorts with respect to its sinfulness?
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Originally posted by DoctorScribbles According to the most recent issue of Time magazine, some Catholics in India plan to protest the Da Vinci Code movie if their government does not ban the movie. Their protest will take the form of fasting, starving to death if necessary, until the movie is banned.
In the eyes of the Catholic God, if somebody wilfully starves himself to death, doe ...[text shortened]... If not, what distinguishes this sort of suicide from other sorts with respect to its sinfulness?
I don't believe the Catholic church has such a stance on suicide anyway. Suicide is usually understood as an unwilled act; the culmination of a serious derangement. And the Catholic church generally doesn't have the opinion that people burn in hell for the rest of eternity. The consensus is that people can be saved through metanoia given through Jesus' salvation. If it did have such an opnion, it would be in grave concern for half its priests. 😲
Originally posted by DoctorScribbles According to the most recent issue of Time magazine, some Catholics in India plan to protest the Da Vinci Code movie if their government does not ban the movie. Their protest will take the form of fasting, starving to death if necessary, until the movie is banned.
In the eyes of the Catholic God, if somebody wilfully starves himself to death, doe ...[text shortened]... If not, what distinguishes this sort of suicide from other sorts with respect to its sinfulness?
I think they are given the choice of either hell or answering questions like this on RHP. All I can say is that I have yet to talk to one on RHP.
Originally posted by DoctorScribbles According to the most recent issue of Time magazine, some Catholics in India plan to protest the Da Vinci Code movie if their government does not ban the movie. Their protest will take the form of fasting, starving to death if necessary, until the movie is banned.
In the eyes of the Catholic God, if somebody wilfully starves himself to death, doe ...[text shortened]... If not, what distinguishes this sort of suicide from other sorts with respect to its sinfulness?
Talk about new lines of hyperbole for mothers to use against their children:
"Don't you know there are millions of poor people in India, starving to death just to stop a second-rate book-based movie? Eat your damn peas, Sally!"
Originally posted by DoctorScribbles According to the most recent issue of Time magazine, some Catholics in India plan to protest the Da Vinci Code movie if their government does not ban the movie. Their protest will take the form of fasting, starving to death if necessary, until the movie is banned.
In the eyes of the Catholic God, if somebody wilfully starves himself to death, doe ...[text shortened]... If not, what distinguishes this sort of suicide from other sorts with respect to its sinfulness?
Originally posted by DoctorScribbles According to the most recent issue of Time magazine, some Catholics in India plan to protest the Da Vinci Code movie if their government does not ban the movie. Their protest will take the form of fasting, starving to death if necessary, until the movie is banned.
In the eyes of the Catholic God, if somebody wilfully starves himself to death, doe ...[text shortened]... If not, what distinguishes this sort of suicide from other sorts with respect to its sinfulness?
Originally posted by DoctorScribbles According to the most recent issue of Time magazine, some Catholics in India plan to protest the Da Vinci Code movie if their government does not ban the movie. Their protest will take the form of fasting, starving to death if necessary, until the movie is banned.
In the eyes of the Catholic God, if somebody wilfully starves himself to death, doe ...[text shortened]... If not, what distinguishes this sort of suicide from other sorts with respect to its sinfulness?
This reminds me of a discussion where no1marauderogatory defended that jumping out of the twin towers was a suicide.
Here the line is finer still, but the purpose of their deaths by starvation is not to end their lives, but to achieve a cause. If the cause is obtained, they will not proceed with starvation. I'm not sure this would be a suicide, more of a martyrdom type of action.
Originally posted by Palynka This reminds me of a discussion where no1marauderogatory defended that jumping out of the twin towers was a suicide.
Here the line is finer still, but the purpose of their deaths by starvation is not to end their lives, but to achieve a cause. If the cause is obtained, they will not proceed with starvation. I'm not sure this would be a suicide, more of a martyrdom type of action.
Originally posted by Palynka This reminds me of a discussion where no1marauderogatory defended that jumping out of the twin towers was a suicide.
Here the line is finer still, but the purpose of their deaths by starvation is not to end their lives, but to achieve a cause. If the cause is obtained, they will not proceed with starvation. I'm not sure this would be a suicide, more of a martyrdom type of action.
(note, I'm not condoning martyrdom)
Yes.
In that conversation NO ONE was able to provide a coherent
definition of suicide.
Do you care to provide one, or do you just wish to chastise #1 for
exploring uncomfortable territory?
Originally posted by scottishinnz What happened to the "we do not bargain with terrorists"? These people are seeking to impose their will on the rest of us by force. Let em die.
Originally posted by Palynka Force? Now there's a laugh.
Irrespective, I don't see why others should decide that the film should not be allowed to be shown. This is simply one sector of society trying to impose their skewed view of reality on everyone else. Sod that! Let them die.
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