The case of Archie Battersbee and why we are a Poundland society
by Sean Walsh, TCW:
I THINK there’s a difference between theism and Christianity. It’s one which speaks to the difference between the brain and the heart.
It’s entirely possible – and I’ve done it – to construct arguments which support the existence of God. It’s harder, though, to acknowledge that a relationship with Our Lord is not one of cognitive consistency but of friendship.
The primary Gospel message is one of betrayal and sacrifice. Which is what makes that message available to all of us. In life we’ve all been guilty of the first and redeemed it by the second.
I believe that we should live in friendship with God, and that any philosophical disputes He has are reconciled in His own mind. And therefore, we accept the ultimate offer of friendship when he gave his son to us on the cross. He knows better than us, I guess.
Faith is a friendship not a belief system. It requires obligations which are asymmetrical. God asks much of us and we, in times of real distress, ask him to come and sit with us. But we owe Him everything. He owes us nothing.
But with real world challenges come what are, from our perspective, tragedies.
Archie Battersbee, a 12 year old child (and therefore a person of unique potential) was found unconscious at home in April. The secular guardians of our Godless culture have declared him dead against the wishes of his parents. The people ‘in charge’ think of this human person – a child, looking much like my own beloved son – as being a slab of meat. They are not in friendship with Our Lord; they are in a version of denial.
Get that bit: the irreligious State has made what is in essence a judgment which is beyond its purview, one which it assumes will trump the wishes of this poor boy’s mother.
Archie’s mother sees in him a spark of possibility. She has the right to that. The NHS has no right to neutralise her hope. If Archie’s mother felt it correct that he should be allowed to fall asleep on his own terms then what objection can the Establishment have to that, given they insist he is asleep already?
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