So how do some of you with a Bible fixation explain the opposition to euthanasia from atheists such as myself ?

One life, and - poof ! Gone. Never to return, by the way, in case you had some other idea. One and only one precious life, one opportunity to make a differ3ence and then that's it. Not even blackness - nothing. Bones and flesh, back into the cosmos for eternity.

Ah - I get it - you're all EX-believers ? Is that it ? Still can't shake loose from the bonds of infantile belief ?

Get over it and move on.

Joe

Loudmouth Even at the age of ten we knew it was a fairytale our scripture teacher had a breakdown because she just couldn't answer sensible questions about inconsistencies in the bible. As an atheist you can believe what you like. It is Christians who toe the line because they are too dim witted to think for themselves who need to be educated.

Helga, despite an education at a Christian school, I can't remember, from my early teens, ever being a believer, it was puzzling why intelligent people believed such nonsense. I've never heard, or read any convincing solution to the problem presented by theodicy.

Some people just don't have the "gene" for religion.

Mac congratulations on surviving a Christian education so many are so damaged by (particularly) Catholic education, of course the Abbott and Pyne appointed education inquisitor Kevin Donnelly will have compulsory scripture classes backed up with a damn good thrashing if your little children don't toe the line. What a good Christian Kevin Donnelly is.

I always passed my Religious Education 100%. In my final year, Junior or Grade 10 the Bishop gave me a Bursary & the usual book on Speech Night. He asked me if I thought of becoming a Priest or Brother. I told him then I didn't really believe in Religion on stage in front of the whole School Community. I got hurried off stage. Strange that.

I'm still very good at Religion, it's a hobby. I just love the JH when they show up at my door. I invite them in. Old Jim sends the newbie around to me to train them in what it like to get someone that knows more than they do. ;-) They get a bit of a shock when they quote me some verse & I tell them the verse before & after & what the Chapter is about. Then I show them that what they are try to say it means isn't exactly right.

I love the 7DA's & the Southern Baptists too. Great fun.

Helga,

I attended a Presbyterian grammar school, so religion was applied relatively lightly. In contrast to the Catholic system, I was bored rather than brainwashed.
My father was an atheist and anti-clerical and my mother had little interest in religion, my brother and I wouldn't have been sent to any school where we were in any danger of being turned into little Christian robots. My parents thought that educational standards were higher in private schools, like many parents these days.