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Stem Cell Bill Passes in Australia
nickd writes "Having recently being passed in the Senate by only 2 votes, an Australian bill to overturn the ban on 'theraputic cloning' has now been passed in the House of Representatives by 82-62. The amendment that was seeking to prevent stem cells being extracted from the eggs of aborted late term female fetuses has also been voted down. The changes will allow scientists to create and use embryos up to 14 days old for research."
Having recently being passed in the Senate by only 2 votes
You think they had a fever of 30c?
/me cries. Why could not noone speech English no more?
Have you read my journal today?
Even if Christians are correct, I find their deity morally reprehensible-- while their God may have the power to absolve sins, it would be immoral for me to accept such absolution. Might makes right is not a valid basis for morality-- even a Christian God must be subject to universal moral principles, else the basis of morality is whimsical. Consequently, God-- xtian or otherwise, can have no moral authority to absolve, as the concept itself is anti-moral.
So to answer your question, Yes, if the Christians are right, I will march off to Hell proudly. However, I expect that it is you who, allowed to enter the Christian Heaven, but without many of your loved ones who didn't believe, who will have found the true hell.
And that's a problem with faith in that there is no empirical evidence. Faith requires belief in something you cannot see. Unfortunately, this will never satisfy the self-centered, the science-minded, and the empirical-minded.
All I can say is that as a Christian, I have experienced the joy and peace of my faith in Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. And it is not a self-centered, carnal joy--it is the joy of knowing that by placing my faith in God, by accepting that Jesus Christ died for my sins and upon my belief, I will have an eternal life with God. That's my belief. And with that belief comes an amazing eternal perspective, a high value for life, and a strong belief that morality is handed down by God such that society needs to conform itself to that morality, not morality to society.
Is it possible that it is all some psychologically oriented event? Is it possible that when I die, I'll simply rot? Yes, absolutely! But I have a hope and a faith in something that, if it is true, will provide an eternal joy and peace. And if it is not true, then what have I really lost?