sanctity unveiled

We now know exactly what the 'sanctity of life' means.

Today CNN reports that Clarence Ray Allen was intentionally killed by the state of California.

Allen had asked not to be resuscitated if he had a cardiac arrest before being executed but prison officials would have refused to honor this.

Prison spokesperson Vernell Crittendon said "At no point are we not going to value the sanctity of life. We would resuscitate him." After that they would execute him.

Of course that's completely illogical - he would die either way. In one case it would be natural and in the other case it would be state supported murder.

In other words, the 'sanctity of life' is not, as religious folk would have you think, that life is precious and sacred. Rather, they mean that they have the right to chose how someone dies on their own terms. The inquisition showed this quite clearly, where their terms meant horrible torture.

It is ironic because a heart attack is considered by religious people an act of 'god'. That is, most of the time 'god' is supposed to take care of the matter of when someone dies. Here these people have done the killing themselves, an act that only 'god' is supposed to do.

This killing, in direct violation of the highest religious directive 'thou shalt not kill', must have been fully supported by the churches and their members because there were no reports of crowds of church goers at the prison in protest.

Religious people protest, harass and kill in the name of a single cell (abortion), but when 100 trillion cells are intentionally destroyed (execution) they are totally silent.

That makes all the church goers within traveling distance from San Quentin the deepest of hypocrites.

But you and they knew that already. Religions have taught most people not to be honest about what is really going on.

Sanctity, smhanktity, the real issue is that religious people are dishonest with themselves and everyone else.