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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fleming, John, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Euthanasia--Religious aspects.

Euthanasia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (427 pages)

Place of Publication:

London : Austin Macauley Publishers, [2021]

Summary:

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 ofpubliccontroversy. Other modish enthusiasms of that period - sexual licentiousness and psychotropic drugs for example - have long been abandoned, but the quest for legislative sanctioning of the killing of the old and infirm and distressed never abated; not a parliamentary year passed in one of the Australian States, it seemed, or even at Commonwealth level, but another bill was placed on the notice paper. Well, in the states ofVictoria and Western Australia, that bill is now an act as it is in Canada, various states in the USA, The Netherlands, Belgium and other nation states.It has remained an Article of Faith for the left throughout all of the decades of post-modernity - just like that other form of authorised killing: abortion. Why is this? What is it about these issues that evoke in the minds and imaginations of liberals and leftists an almost millenarian enthusiasm?It required a scholar of Father Fleming's insight and experience to provide us with the explanation, in this, the latest and, in my view, most important of his publications.His answer takes us to a close examination of the real legacy of the enlightenment, and it is not the benign and rational one that generations of us have been taught to believe in our schools. His careful unravelling of the three centuries of the secular project from Rousseau to Safe-Schools can leave us in no doubt as to what comes next if we don't stand up for the Christian inheritance of our institutes. It was always about power. And power always ends up being about persecution.Father Fleming has been a priest, a broadcaster, a controversialist and a scholar in his long and distinguished journey through public life.His book will be essential reading for the many Christian folk of all denominations who now understand that our age will be one that will call upon them to be soldiers as well as servants for the church.- Stuart H Lindsay, barrister and former federal circuit court judge

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

The Biblically "Illiterate" Christopher Hitchens

Scientist Peter Atkins Dismisses the Resurrection of Jesus

Did Jesus Rise From the Dead?

A Recommendation for Those Genuinely Seeking the Truth

Peter Atkins' "Theism"

The Atheism of the Alt-Right

Chapter 6

Church and State - Separation or Cooperation?

Australian Constitution Protects the Church from the State

Totalitarian Temptations in Utopia

Chapter 7

Élites Undermining Democracy: Judges, Politicians, Educators and Journalists

Who makes the law?

Who Governs Australia?

Vocal Élites: "Fear the People!"

Who is Responsible for Making Law?

Judicial Activism in Australia?

Politicians and the Media Exploit Religious Bigotry

Chapter 8

The Attitude of Australian Citizens to Making RU486 Legally Available

The Inalienable Right to Life: But Only for Some?.

Defending Human Rights Post World War II

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)

Universal Agreement on Basic Human Values

Religion

Consensus Gentium

Agreement of the People

The Human Failure to Honour Human Rights

What Are "Inalienable Rights"?

Empirical Evidence for Slippery Slopes

Euthanasia as Practised Illegally in South Australia

Research Evidence in Australia as a Whole

Australian Surgeons and Euthanasia

Extending the Boundaries for Euthanasia in the Netherlands

Euthanasia in the Netherlands 1984-1990

Dutch Euthanasia Continues to Rise

Pathway to Legal Medical Killings: Machiavellianism at Work in the Victoria State Task Force

The Keown Critique of the Victorian Parliamentary Committee Report

What about Other Australian Research?

Victorian State Government Planned to Legalise Euthanasia

The Right to Life Is an Inalienable Right

Euthanasia Undermines Suicide Prevention Programmes

Chapter 9

Belgium: Sliding Down the Euthanasia Slope

Legal Control of Euthanasia

Administration of a Lethal Dose without Explicit Request from the Patient

Increase in Numbers of Cases of Euthanasia

Widen the Scope: Euthanasia for Children

Chapter 10

Eugenics

Let's Start by Denying We Have a Problem

Eugenics Persists Into the 21st Century

A Brief History of the Eugenics Movement to the Present Time

Population Planners are still at It

The Enlightenment and the Perfectibility of Man

Mid to Late 20th Century Eugenics and Onwards

The Link Between Abortion and Eugenics

A Glimpse at Future Eugenic Proposals for Utopia

Denying the seriously disabled are human

Linking Compassion with Killing

Eugenics in Australia - Melbourne the Epicentre

Connection between Eugenics and Voluntary Euthanasia in the Third Reich.

From Eugenic Abortion to Infanticide to Euthanasia

Philosophical "Beliefs" About When a Human Being Is a "Person": The Secularists' Weapon of Choice

The Real Intentions of Proponents of Euthanasia

Chapter 11

Power without Responsibility

What are the Responsibilities of Members of Parliament Bearing on the Question of Euthanasia?

Politicians, Pious Platitudes and the Secularist Ideology

Have we forgotten Aboriginal persons and the Northern Territory experience?

Euphemisms and Legislation

Polls

The Real Motives and Intentions of Euthanasia Advocates and Slippery Slopes: Invoking the Principle of Personal Autonomy to Annihilate Personal Autonomy

In Short

Entertainer Andrew Denton

Andrew Denton's Philosophical Beliefs

"We're the Land of Neighbours, Not Nazis" (Andrew Denton)

The Law in Relation to Assisted Dying

Weasel Words and Euphemisms Mask Reality

Euphemisms Have Many Purposes but Mainly to Deceive

TV Entertainer Andrew Denton Only Wants Legal "Assistance in Dying", Not Killing!

Denton, Hard Cases and Palliative Care

What is Palliative Care?

The Painful Death of Kit Denton

Transference

The Case of Liz Le Noble

Euthanasia and Hospice Care

Denton's Atheistic Rant

Essential Elements of Denton's Case

Chapter 12

Remake the Culture! - Capture the Language!

Moral Relativism - Incoherent and Dangerous

Non-Judgementalism and Marriage "Equality"

The Sexual Revolution

Replacing "Sex" With "Gender"

Intersex Persons

Conclusion

Appendix 1

Appendix 2

Appendix 3.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781528970556

1528970551

OCLC:

1258780078