President Obama signed an executive order Monday repealing a Bush-era policy that limited federal tax dollars for embryonic stem cell research. And while this move was lauded by many in the scientific community as a means to helping cure a wide array of diseases, the religious right had a very different vision of the future. Here it is:
This comment has been made into a video on YouTube called "Wendy's In Future." Because it was truly worthy. Enjoy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ8LmKDqZKY
The Dead-Baby-Gun-Bot is definitely the coolest thing since Transformers. "Dead-Baby-Gun-Bot! More than meets the eye! Dead-Baby-Gun-Bot! Stem cells in disguise!!"
Hey I am totally down to abort some babies just for the purpose of helping to make the Dead-Baby-Gun-Bot!! This could be new oppourtunities for employment of sluts, whores and rape victims alike!!!!!!
From an ethical standpoint, I wish we were just trying to clone humans and using stem-cells to create all kinds of weirdness rather than blowing shit up in the Middle East.
For all you right-wing spazmos who get your knickers in a twist over using stem cells because you are all crazy in love with "life"--why the hell are you so giddy over blowing up brown people?
pastor Matt. Just what is repulsive about your closing statement? You are right, the sick are a drain on the resources of the well. Natural selection dictates life and death; a natural selection that was 'created' by God. Humanity is the abhorration of His creation by attempting to play God themselves by trying to prolong life unnaturally.
It is Christian duty to ensure all prescription drugs are withdrawn, all hosptials and surgeries shut, and especially life support machines switched off permanently.
If jesus were alive now, he wouldn't be smashing up a temple, he would be smashing up a hospital to show how it has transgressed the word of his father.
For everyone on the "left" of this issue, I recommend that you read "A Planet Named Shayol" by Cordwainer Smith. It casts a more thoughtful light on the concerns of the religious right on the use of embryonic tissue for medical research. I am not religious nor am I right wing; I just think there are deeper moral issues to this matter than the reflexive left is willing to admit.
Therefore let no man talk to me of other expedients: Of taxing our absentees at five shillings a pound: Of using neither clothes, nor household furniture, except what is of our own growth and manufacture: Of utterly rejecting the materials and instruments that promote foreign luxury: Of curing the expensiveness of pride, vanity, idleness, and gaming in our women: Of introducing a vein of parsimony, prudence and temperance: Of learning to love our country, wherein we differ even from Laplanders, and the inhabitants of Topinamboo: Of quitting our animosities and factions, nor acting any longer like the Jews, who were murdering one another at the very moment their city was taken: Of being a little cautious not to sell our country and consciences for nothing: Of teaching landlords to have at least one degree of mercy towards their tenants. Lastly, of putting a spirit of honesty, industry, and skill into our shop-keepers, who, if a resolution could now be taken to buy only our native goods, would immediately unite to cheat and exact upon us in the price, the measure, and the goodness, nor could ever yet be brought to make one fair proposal of just dealing, though often and earnestly invited to it.
Therefore I repeat, let no man talk to me of these and the like expedients, 'till he hath at least some glympse of hope, that there will ever be some hearty and sincere attempt to put them into practice.
Nobody has summed up more succinctly the contradictions, damage and dangers which lie at the heart of organised religion better than Sam Harris in "Letter To A Christian Nation: A Challenge To Faith", its only 90 pages or so. But goodness me its a compelling essay.
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March 15th, 2009 at 03:48 pm
This comment has been made into a video on YouTube called "Wendy's In Future." Because it was truly worthy. Enjoy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ8LmKDqZKY
March 10th, 2009 at 10:57 pm
Will the Dead-Baby Gun-Bot be available to the public? If so, when?
March 10th, 2009 at 11:15 pm
I've pre-ordered my Dead Baby Gun Bot with Corinthian leather interior, car phone, mini-fridge and RIBOSOMES.
June 11th, 2009 at 01:41 pm
The Dead-Baby-Gun-Bot is definitely the coolest thing since Transformers. "Dead-Baby-Gun-Bot! More than meets the eye! Dead-Baby-Gun-Bot! Stem cells in disguise!!"
March 11th, 2009 at 11:15 am
Hey I am totally down to abort some babies just for the purpose of helping to make the Dead-Baby-Gun-Bot!! This could be new oppourtunities for employment of sluts, whores and rape victims alike!!!!!!
March 11th, 2009 at 02:50 pm
A baby gun-bot that shoots babies. awesome.
March 11th, 2009 at 03:09 pm
You can have my dead baby gun when you pry it from my cold dead... Oh, never mind.
March 12th, 2009 at 02:40 am
From an ethical standpoint, I wish we were just trying to clone humans and using stem-cells to create all kinds of weirdness rather than blowing shit up in the Middle East.
For all you right-wing spazmos who get your knickers in a twist over using stem cells because you are all crazy in love with "life"--why the hell are you so giddy over blowing up brown people?
Cognitive fucking dissonance, dammit.
March 15th, 2009 at 01:03 pm
pastor Matt. Just what is repulsive about your closing statement? You are right, the sick are a drain on the resources of the well. Natural selection dictates life and death; a natural selection that was 'created' by God. Humanity is the abhorration of His creation by attempting to play God themselves by trying to prolong life unnaturally.
It is Christian duty to ensure all prescription drugs are withdrawn, all hosptials and surgeries shut, and especially life support machines switched off permanently.
If jesus were alive now, he wouldn't be smashing up a temple, he would be smashing up a hospital to show how it has transgressed the word of his father.
April 18th, 2009 at 05:18 am
For everyone on the "left" of this issue, I recommend that you read "A Planet Named Shayol" by Cordwainer Smith. It casts a more thoughtful light on the concerns of the religious right on the use of embryonic tissue for medical research. I am not religious nor am I right wing; I just think there are deeper moral issues to this matter than the reflexive left is willing to admit.
April 18th, 2009 at 11:18 am
Please Stop fighting and see how many common baby names in all religions
April 19th, 2009 at 08:09 pm
Why is it that the world has to be told how to deal with life by Cults?
April 21st, 2009 at 09:06 am
Therefore let no man talk to me of other expedients: Of taxing our absentees at five shillings a pound: Of using neither clothes, nor household furniture, except what is of our own growth and manufacture: Of utterly rejecting the materials and instruments that promote foreign luxury: Of curing the expensiveness of pride, vanity, idleness, and gaming in our women: Of introducing a vein of parsimony, prudence and temperance: Of learning to love our country, wherein we differ even from Laplanders, and the inhabitants of Topinamboo: Of quitting our animosities and factions, nor acting any longer like the Jews, who were murdering one another at the very moment their city was taken: Of being a little cautious not to sell our country and consciences for nothing: Of teaching landlords to have at least one degree of mercy towards their tenants. Lastly, of putting a spirit of honesty, industry, and skill into our shop-keepers, who, if a resolution could now be taken to buy only our native goods, would immediately unite to cheat and exact upon us in the price, the measure, and the goodness, nor could ever yet be brought to make one fair proposal of just dealing, though often and earnestly invited to it.
Therefore I repeat, let no man talk to me of these and the like expedients, 'till he hath at least some glympse of hope, that there will ever be some hearty and sincere attempt to put them into practice.
April 22nd, 2009 at 02:47 pm
Nobody has summed up more succinctly the contradictions, damage and dangers which lie at the heart of organised religion better than Sam Harris in "Letter To A Christian Nation: A Challenge To Faith", its only 90 pages or so. But goodness me its a compelling essay.
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