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Consistently Opposing Killing: From Abortion to Assisted Suicide, the Death Penalty, and War

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This is a unique and wonderful book. Dedicated people are working selflessly to stop killing all over the world. Some great people are fighting the death penalty, peace activists are struggling to stop war, others work to expose torture and end it, many know that poverty is a killer and work to end it, others oppose abortion and euthanasia.
This book tells of the people and movements that oppose all these kinds of killing, in a consistent ethic of respect for life. Supporters of this ethic include anti-death penalty activist Sr. Helen Prejean, and Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel and the Dalai Lama.
This book offers many little known facts and an inspiring vision of diverse activists working together to end killing.
Rose Evans, San Francisco

Reading this book was truly a Life-Changing Experience. It forced me to rethink my positions on many issues. I would compare it to first reading the Expounding of the Law in Matthew 5:17-48, where Jesus turns several moral issues upside-down. Consistently Opposing Killing, like Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, boldly challenges the status-quo by being consistently for life and consistently against death. It has forced me to think about issues that were uncomfortable to confront. By showing that both liberals and conservatives have equally betrayed the Sanctity of Life, this book offers a radical alternative to any common ideological philosophy.

I now oppose all forms of killing: War, Capital Punishment, Abortion, Euthanasia, Poverty and Racism. I also realized that violence against animals is wrong, and have since become a vegetarian.

If you have ever struggled with trying to consistently and completely obey the teachings of Jesus, then you need to read this book. I now believe that the Consistent Life Ethic is the only moral doctrine that is compatible with the words and actions of Jesus in the Gospels. If you want to come closer to the teachings of Early Christianity, then I hope you will find Consistently Opposing Killing!