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Canada is geographically a very large country and many people have to travel long distances to get to their jobs, appointments, etc. Canada does not contribute a large amount of CO2 to atmosphere. It won't make any difference what Canadians do. Why get excited about it or try to hamper life in Canada as liberals are doing now with carbon taxes?

Why don't you stop driving a vehicle and just ride a bike or walk? Too bad you don't realize driving on cruise control will make absolutely no difference to the environment or climate. Canada emissions are miniscule and the human caused CO2 in the atmosphere is miniscule. But if it makes you feel good. go ahead. Just don't try to feed the baloney to everyone else that you are actually making any difference to the climate because you're not.

You are not pointing out the fallacy of my reasoning at all. Everything you post is complete nonsense.

Maybe you could tell us what you would do. You say you can't control the climate but say we should minimize our impact on it. So tell us how you would do that.

Seriously? What would you do about climate change? Do you seriously think you can control the climate? What would you do? Shut down the energy industry and put the hundreds of thousands of people on welfare? Take all vehicles off the road? Stop people from heating their homes?

Funny how you like to waste time just being contrary. I don't know what you get out of it.

The 911 hijackers didn't suffer beatings and persecution like the disciples did for preaching the resurrection of Christ. They made a quick exit by flying planes into the Twin Towers. We also have mountains of evidence that Islam is a false religious system but the evidence for the Bible being true is very strong. We don't see disciples of Jesus flying aircraft into Twin Towers. All the suicide bombing by jihadists regularly around the world should tell you something.

The empty tomb is strong evidence. Read this article on it. Then there are the eye witnesses who saw Jesus after the resurrection. Historical Evidence for the Resurrection | Desiring God

Canada has a one-China policy and does not have an official foreign diplomatic post in Taiwan. This should tell us something about the liberal left in Canada and their disastrous foreign affairs. Seems liberals and NDP and possibly other parties to a degree want to have it both ways, support Communist states and free Democratic states. They speak with forked tongue. This has proven a disaster and has placed Canada on the watch list with our traditional allies. This situation of loving Communist countries goes back 53 years or so when PM Pierre Trudeau was the first western leader to lead Canada to officially recognize the People's Republic of China and establish diplomatic relations in 1970. It is well-known the Trudeaus had a fascination with Communist dictatorships and became personal friends with Cuba's Fidel Castro. Why Liberals at large so easily bought into this is a mystery. It may have something to do with Liberals in the 1960s feeling their oats and thinking they somehow could be the great arbitrator of the world's problems. They wholeheartedly rushed in to give all their support to the U.N. and embraced multiculturalism as the be all and end all. They continue down this path and have added progressivism into the mix and rejected our historic Judeo-Christian culture and civilization and our European roots as of any importance. It has been said that key Liberals consider Canada as a "post-national" state. Nationalism is frowned on and Canadians have even been accused of genocide without any basis at all. There seems to be an obsession by liberals (and left) with encouraging national shame for colonizing this part of north America. This liberal left thinking has had dire consequences with nation building and national defence. Canada's armed forces cannot even get people to join because of this progressivism/liberalism deeply embedded in our government departments. They have in effect declared war on our historic traditional values. They are trying to change Canada into some kind of liberal/progressive pagan culture with increasing state control of free speech, beliefs, and society in general. This article elaborates on what is happening: "Determined advocates for a progressive world view work all through government, the bureaucracy, environmental and other non-governmental organizations, academia and the media. They are not an organized cabal — a vast left-wing conspiracy, to paraphrase Hillary Clinton — but they do have overlapping agendas and share the twin convictions that a fundamental reordering of society is needed and that they know best how to achieve it. Proponents include Liberals, progressives, socialists, hard leftists and crypto- marxists who support climate alarmism, globalism, big government, stakeholder capitalism, critical race theory and wokeism. The transformation they seek is already well under way. There’s even the danger that, like the frog sitting in the slowly heating water, the rest of us may realize what has happened only after it is too late. Many environmental organizations, including Greenpeace — which the environment minister, Stephen Guilbeault, belonged to when he scaled the CN Tower — view humans’ impact on the planet as inherently destructive and bad. The declared goal of Stable Planet Alliance is “to stabilize and gradually, steadily reduce population and consumption.” One of the alliance’s members, Population Balance, draws “the connections between pronatalism, human supremacy, and ecological overshoot, and their combined devastating impacts on social, reproductive, ecological, and intergenerational justice.” Actual culling of the population may be a bridge too far, but they are certainly no fans of childbearing." Joe Oliver: What progressives are really trying to do and why (msn.com)

Probably the two biggest proofs of the resurrection of Jesus are the empty tomb and the fact that many of the Apostles died as martyrs for their faith or belief in the resurrection. People don't die for a lie. There are other reasons. You can Google it and see for yourself.

You just said it by saying it has been legal for 50 years.

As I said many times, that is a moral question of right or wrong. It has always been considered as wrong by civilized society. Anyone who thinks suicide is fine or reasonable really needs help. However, the government does not use the word suicide in the MAID laws or debates because they don't want people to think that is what it is. It is carefully avoided.

That's because there are many reasons why I trust the "old book". Just one reason alone is Jesus was raised from the dead and seen after the resurrection by many eye witnesses. Anyone who chooses to ignore that fact has to be blind.

Taking human life was always illegal. It was called murder. Still is in most countries.

How do you figure they are making decisions on the the sanctity of life and when it can be ended by assisted dying? Who do you think brought in the MAID law and is adding mentally ill people to it?

Sounds like you're proud of supporting evil and have no qualms about it.

That's the problem. Government has no right to make any decisions on the sanctity of life or when it should be ended. That is God's business. What you're talking about is a group of politicians in their ivory tower counting the votes they will get for making certain decisions.

Your conscience should be able to tell you when to do the right thing and avoid the wrong thing. Conscience is also formed by learning what society expects, what God expects as taught in his word, and what the laws tell us. As for the laws, when government legalizes MAID, what kind of message are they sending to society about the sanctity of life?

I don't know. Maybe somebody didn't like the articles or it pricked their conscience and they complained.

Yes, there are certain circumstance where police may shot to kill or soldiers but those are only rational that anybody can understand. When it comes to easing the suffering, it becomes highly questionable because suffering is a very subjective thing. People have chosen MAID for things that nobody in their right mind would say is suffering. And offering it to veterans because they suffer from PTSD instead of giving them counseling to treat the PTSD. Things like that, or we have heard of people choosing MAID because they can't afford to live and they want to take the MAID way to escape their circumstances. This is the thing that should have been expected to happen when the government decided to go down that path. That could be one reason why God has a commandment thou shalt not kill. The government is now deciding to give it to anybody who claims they have mental issues. That pretty well opens the door to anyone who wants to claim MAID. The government doesn't seem too concerned because they know there are lots of people who support MAID and have somehow fallen for the notion it is a "individual right" or "choice". The government also know it could save a lot of money on the medical system since that is paid for by the government. The number of people choosing MAID is now over ten thousand per year and could go much higher. But that makes it also a conflict of interest. How much of this MAID is to save the government money? We don't know. MAID opens a can of worms which will be very difficult or impossible to control. Perhaps that is a reason God's command is against killing. MAID makes it very easy for people to lose their lives on a whim. Its a path no country should go down. In addition suffering is a normal part of life. Thousands of people may simply choose to take MAID well before they experience any real "suffering". There are also many drugs that can reduce or eliminate suffering. We need better and more accessible palliative care, not a doctor of death.

I have received a warning that I am reposting under this topic. Please do not keep repeating the same nonsensical comments. I reposted some articles because commenters repeated the same kind of comments and I was only trying to answer them. They apparently did not read the earlier posts I made with articles explaining the topic. But apparently I am not allowed to repost something I posted earlier. So I will have to follow that rule and not repost something. That means I will not be able to give much of reply if people like Treebeard, BC Sapper and others want to keep repeating the same old things.

He gave mankind many things including free will or the ability to choose between right and wrong. He did not create mankind as robots. But he gave them his written revelation with commands such as thou shalt not kill. If some men choose to disobey God and kill then it is man, who has free will, that is in the wrong.

He did not give anything to mankind to allow mankind to kill people. That is a misunderstanding of God. He gave man knowledge, but also said thou shalt not kill. If man uses knowledge to kill people when they must not, it is man that is going against the commandment of God.

No, of course not. God gave mankind knowledge, science, medicine, and the ability to heal people. He gave all these things to mankind.

God is the one in charge of life. He created us and when we die is basically his business. We don't have any right to actively end someone's life. That is playing God. Our bodies and soul, our being, belongs to God. Nobody has any business playing God and actively ending life. You need to accept the fact there is an omnipotent almighty God who you are responsible to and start reading the Bible, New Testament. Stop thinking you are some kind of god because you are not. You are a created being made in the image of God.