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To: Jorge Mario Bergoglio
c/o: The Vatican
Dear Jorge,
I usually just laugh and deride your antics and those of the Catholic Church but I have to express my outrage at your latest and most appalling comments to date. Jorge, you have just announced that, in your view, euthanasia must be considered a “sin against God and creation” and that you will, no doubt, use whatever waning influence you have to try and block any moves to ease restrictions and laws that prevent people with terminal illnesses from choosing to die with dignity.
In your mad pursuit of primitive and manufactured Bronze Age based dogma you finally remove the “Mr nice guy” mask and reveal yourself as no different to your predecessors as a person of faux compassion with no concern for those with terminal illnesses who elect to die with dignity and in peace rather than to suffer unending excruciating suffering and pain. You prove that you are totally unmoved by the anguish suffered by a terminally ill victim's family and impervious to concerns felt by a distressed dying person that their family be impoverished with massive medical costs for no reason other than to prolong their suffering .
Jorge, I am sure, you will learn to regret your stance. You recently received a visit from your Bishops in the Netherlands who gave you the uncomfortable news that people in the European heartland are abandoning the Christian religion, and Catholicism in particular, in droves . They told you that both Catholic and Protestant Christian ranks have shrunk dramatically across Europe in recent decades, and that hundreds of churches have been sold off to be turned into apartments, shops, bars or warehouses.
In the Netherlands alone, churches have been closing at a rate of one or two a week. The bishops told you that about two-thirds of all Roman Catholic churches in the Netherlands will have to be shut or sold by 2025, and many parishes merged, because congregations and finances were “in a long-term shrinking process”.
I am not surprised that you are so ill-informed not to know that the public at large, including many Catholics and other Christians, are not opposed to decency and do not wish to interfere with a person's basic human right to decide when and where he chooses to have his suffering and his life ended.
Perhaps I should in fact be congratulating you for doing more damage to your own and your churches reputation by your uncaring, inhumane attitudes than any critic could possibly do. May your church reap what you have sown, may your congregations continue to melt away and your finances continue to be “in a long-term shorter-term shrinking process”.
Oh I nearly forgot. I obviously feel a greater compassion and concern for humanity than you do. So I wish that you die peacefully in your sleep without having to suffer the anguish and embarrassment of lying stricken helpless, racked with whimpering pain and writhing in your own excrement as you beg for your own miserable end.
Regards,
Atheitis
