Moonbattery has been eating Christian churches from within. The Anglican Church of Canada even authorizes clergy to bless people as they subject themselves to euthanasia.

The church does not openly endorse submitting to being murdered. Like Pontius Pilate, it washes its hands. From Pastoral Liturgies at the Time of Death in Contexts of Medically Assisted Dying:

Our intention is to help the church’s ministers to respond pastorally to the needs before them. It is not our intent to enter into the ethical arguments regarding MAiD, nor to provide a moral argument for or against MAiD.

Then again, maybe the church does endorse Canada’s alarmingly progressive Medical Assistance in Dying:

People who choose MAiD freely and without coercion may indeed be ready to go. They have been living with and suffering through complex health challenges and they want the pain to stop. They want to be able to sleep. They desperately do not want their families and loved ones to watch and wait, wondering how much longer?

The arguments are familiar. Already they have led to medical murder being offered as treatment for eating disorders, poverty, mental illness, needing a wheelchair lift, backpain, and inflammatory bowel disease.

As Wesley J. Smith notes at National Review,

By offering the supposed imprimatur of Christ — because that is whom the church is supposed to represent as His mystical body — to being euthanized and euthanizing, the Canadian Anglican Church has further normalized killing as an answer to human suffering. Perhaps even worse, its validation could result in deaths that might have been prevented as receiving the blessing could become the tipping point for some suicidal persons choosing lethality over struggling on.

Thomas Aquinas explained why suicide is a mortal sin in Summa Theologica. The Anglican Church of Canada might want to give his work a look.

On a tip from Steve T.