and make it happen<\/a>.\u00a0 It chills the bones to see so many jumping into the comments and pining for the right of the machine to\u00a0make a parent pull a child off life support.\u00a0 I know that the basic post was just a typical atheist\u00a0chance to dig at religion.\u00a0 Most modern atheist apologists are, as in this case, close to the same class and compassion levels as Fred Phelps. It\u2019s just that our educational and media institutions, being firmly in bed with the progressive secular cause, are more than willing to brush it under the carpet. But here we see that it is the pipe dream of at least some on the secular left, not just to allow abortion and euthanasia, but rather to set up conditions where outside forces can step in and make it happen.\u00a0 Again, someone remind me why Sarah Palin was just a bubble-headed idiot for all that talk about death panels? <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They want a world in which the state can step in and make it happen.\u00a0 It chills the bones to see so many jumping into the comments and pining for the right of the machine to\u00a0make a parent pull a child off life support.\u00a0 I know that the basic post was just a typical atheist\u00a0chance […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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