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To kill or not to kill euthanasia in a society with a cultural death wish / John Fleming

Euthanasia emerged as a talking point for progressives and secularists in the West in the 1960s. Given that they simply appropriated (without anyone's permission) control of national and private broadcasters, newspapers and university faculties, it became, eo ipso, a matter of public controvers...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Fleming, John
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Austin Macauley Publishers, 2021.
Subjects:
Euthanasia > Religious aspects.
Euthanasia > Religious aspects
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • To Kill or Not to Kill
  • About the Author
  • Dedication
  • Copyright Information ©
  • Acknowledgement
  • Foreword 1
  • William J. Tighe
  • Foreword 2
  • David Flint
  • Introduction
  • What is at stake?
  • The long march through the institutions includes the Church
  • The Long March over the precipice
  • Chapter 1
  • Euthanasia and Traditional Codes of Medical Ethics
  • What is Euthanasia?
  • The Crucial Roles of Intention and Motive in the Moral Act, or "I Purposely killed Bill Because He was Having an Affair with My Wife!"
  • Euthanasia by Omission of Reasonable Care
  • Euthanasia by Omission in Australia
  • What's the point of tube feeding?
  • How the starting point conditions the Judge's final decision
  • When is a Drug Not a Drug, and Does it Matter?
  • Who gets to say what palliative care really is?
  • Contemporary Medical Ethics and Killing?
  • World Medical Association Resolution on Euthanasia
  • Traditional Codes of Medical Ethics and Euthanasia
  • Implications for the Medical Profession
  • Alternative persons who might carry out euthanasia
  • Chapter 2
  • History? You Can Take it or Leave It!
  • Bridges
  • Chapter 3
  • Secularism
  • Both Religion and Ideology
  • Religion or Belief?
  • Ideology: part reality and part illusion
  • When God is Dead!
  • The Decline in Religious Adherence and Practice
  • Secular
  • What Does it Mean?
  • Liberty or Progress?
  • The Loss of Moral Language and Moral Distinctions
  • Politicians and Their Beliefs
  • "Free Speech" In the Modern Liberal Democratic State
  • Freedom, Religion, Conscience vs the Arrogant Utopianism of Left Liberals
  • The Hypocrisy of "Inclusion"
  • Folau
  • the Next Chapter
  • Peter Singer and Israel Folau
  • Off to Court We Go
  • The New Atheism: An Exercise in Ideological Rigidity
  • Be Careful What You Think
  • You May Need to Be Re-Educated!
  • Secularism: A Religion or System of Beliefs
  • The New Reality
  • Chapter 4
  • Secularism's War Against Family, God, Church and Reason
  • Secularism's War against the Family
  • Secularism's War against God and Christianity Pitting Reason against Faith
  • Faith Needs Reason as Reason Needs Faith
  • Religion is Practiced both Publicly and Privately
  • Christianity and the First Hospitals
  • God of the gaps: science versus religion
  • Dawkins Misrepresents St Augustine as Being "Anti-Science"
  • What Marxists and Liberal-Democrats Have in Common?
  • Ideology!
  • There is no Proof God Exists
  • The Default Position of Atheists
  • Can Something Come from Nothing?
  • Fair-Minded Atheists
  • Chapter 5
  • When Ignorance is a Virtue
  • Atheism and Belief in God
  • Atheism versus Religion
  • Religion as Mental Illness
  • the New Totalitarianism?
  • Religion as the Major Cause of Wars
  • Bunkum!
  • Jesus Did Not Exist Say Hitchens and Morris
  • Brian Morris Rejects the Historicity of Jesus

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