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'l'he question, "Is suicide a crime?" has puzzled
many ,
A
56-page pamphlet,
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'0ught Suicide to be a Crime?' '
the work of
a
.five-man committee appointed by the .Arch–
bishop of Canterbury, "primate of all England,
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was
published and distributed recently. The committee members
investigated the subject of self-destruction from almost
every conceivable angle _-- historical, legal, medical,
moral -- and came to the astounding conclusion that the
Bible does not condemn suicide!
Think of it!
"Suicide was not always frowned upon," states
this noted Anglican Church body; ". .. . the ancients in
the Hellenic
t~es
(the pagan Greeks) tended to look upon
the power to take one's own life as an inalienable
privilege!"
However, Chairman Christie later admitted on
BBC:
"If
any member of the committee were asked if
HE
considered
suicide wrong, he would say
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t was! . . . tnatno
man
or
woman had the right to terminate-Tire entrusted to him by
God"
(TIME,
November
2, 1959,
p.
74) .
What he is actually saying is that
HE THINKS
God
does not forbid the taking
of
one's own life, but man-;-Tn
nrs-super1or wisdom, reasons that suicide iS not proper.
That it is a coward's was of solving
hie
problems. That it.
is like running away in attle!
In other words, the Bible is not the final authority
for the decision they have reached-.- Human-:reason is their
authority.
Nevertheless
the
B~ble
DOES condemn suicide!
God
COmmaJ'lds·:
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'l'HOU SHALT NOT KILL"
(the sixth
commandment). Webster defines the word
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ld.ll" as "to deprive
of life." 'l'o commit suicide, then, is
break1~
one of the
Ten Commandments -- and is
definitely-condemn~
oy-aoa.---