BluePhantom
Educator (of liberals)
Your thoughts?
Suicide is a symptom exhibited by someone who is broken. Their lives are broken, as well as their minds. To call it a sin is to ascribe a religious/moral meaning that is neither helpful nor meaningful.
Except that she is asking a theological question. It's no more helpful nor meaningful to provide a psychological answer to a theological question
Actually, it is much more helpful to address the problem from a scientific standpoint than a theological one. At least with science, one can perhaps find the root cause of suicides, and try to help these people before they kill themselves. With religion, it's all about guilt and fear; and guilt and fear is largely why they are killing themselves in the first place.
She already said on page one she is not contemplating suicide. She is merely asking a theological question about sin. That is a question science has no answer for because it deals with a theological principle that cannot be measured or experimented upon. It's like answering the question "what is your favorite color" with "pi multiplied by 16 squared"