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Parental love is forever

For some reason, I have a hard time wrapping my mind around the image of Jesus Christ taking a child into a garage, gassing her to death and then calling it parental love. What Robert Latimer did was defiantly not parental love.

Parental love is taking care of that child, when she wakes you up at 4 a.m., feeding her, changing her diapers for the rest of your life and hers, bathing her, talking to her even though she can't talk back, being in the hospital for weeks, as she goes through surgeries, kissing her and laughing with her, and especially seeing Christ's face in her through it all.

This is my child. She suffers also, but don't we all suffer in many different ways?

We do not take people out and execute them because they are going to suffer.

I am sure Georgina you have had your share of suffering in your 89 years, but the thought or act would never cross your mind to have someone put you to death every time you have suffering.

What Robert Latimer did was premeditated murder, nothing less. He did not lay down his life for her. But rather took it away from her. Tracy never had a chance.

If Christ's message is to take the easy way out, why did he die on the cross? In fact the last temptation of Christ was "Come down from the cross and we will believe."

He did not come down and because of that we are saved.

Jeri Marple
Edmonton

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