With God & Italy for us, who cares if Europe is against us?

A large number of America is outraged at the injustice against Terri Schiavo... and Europe is, shall we say, bemused. They just don't get America's people (particularly the millions of "ignorant idiots" who voted Bush back into office). The continental divide between America and Europe is becoming wider, as one reporter said:

"The Terri Schiavo case shows just how emphatically the U.S. and Europe are moving on different paths on the "right-to-life" or in this case, the right to die," said Bronwen Maddox in The Times, adding:

"Euthanasia, abortion, stem cell research and, above all, the death penalty mark out a transatlantic gulf which is far more clear-cut than even on Iraq."

The moral compass of the European continent (apart from perhaps Italy, where the people may not make it to Church every Sunday, but they still live in a culture steeped with the importance of life and love, and the Vatican is still at their doorstep) has gone askew, where to many Europeans, "Epicurian" is perhaps a better way to describe them -- for them, life is only worth living if it is a "good" life, and if you are not a "bother" to someone else. As another reporter put it, to Europeans, "The idea that all life should be maintained whenever possible is impractical and repellent."

And thus continues modern Europe's slide in oblivion.

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