{"id":45537,"date":"2014-08-08T17:00:44","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T17:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_of_ireland_primate_richard_clarke_speaks_out_on_euthanasia\/"},"modified":"2014-08-08T17:00:44","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T17:00:44","slug":"church_of_ireland_primate_richard_clarke_speaks_out_on_euthanasia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45537","title":{"rendered":"Church of Ireland primate Richard Clarke Speaks out on euthanasia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Most Revd Clarke said: \u201cOne of the most perplexing aspects of the intervention of a former Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey, into the debate in England on the side of assisted dying was that a fundamental Christian tenet \u201d\u201c that our life on earth is not our property to do with as we choose \u201d\u201c appeared to have eluded him entirely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMuch therefore depends on how we understand the significance of earthly life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf life is simply a personal commodity&#8230;then life is disposable, entirely at the will of the individual \u201d\u02dcpossessor\u2019. This is clearly not the Christian perspective and, even for the non-believer, it is not an automatic understanding of the significance of life.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsletter.co.uk\/news\/health\/church-of-ireland-primate-speaks-out-on-euthanasia-1-6227072\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Most Revd Clarke said: \u201cOne of the most perplexing aspects of the intervention of a former Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey, into the debate in England on the side of assisted dying was that a fundamental Christian tenet \u201d\u201c<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45537\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,48,39,50,74,175,409,438,199,168,104,325,114,96,184,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-anthropology","category-church-of-ireland","category-death-burial-funerals","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-ireland","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-parish-ministry","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}