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The local paper had a story yesterday called “Views Shift on Stem Cells”. I post a few choice excepts:
“Peggy Willocks describes herself as a consdervative, anti-abortion Christian in the heart of the Bible Belt”, Johnson City Tenn. So when she considered embryonic stem-cell research two years ago, she found it naturally repulsive.
The view changed as it has for other religous Americans.This religious support or lack of it, could be instrumental as Congress and President Bush grapple with a bill to exampnd fedral funding…
“I was equating it with killing a child”, said Willocks, 54, who gives talks in support of such research. “I though of it as grinding up fetuses and all of that, so I didn’t want any part of it.”
What changed Willocks was a personal experience. (Here it comes folks).
She watched a frience and a fellow Parkinson’s sufferer get to where she could move only her eyes for two months before dying. Willocks then went back to her BIBLE. http://phorum.phatmass.com/html/emoticons/sadder.gif (she interpruted scripture on her experience rather than the other way around folks. Sorry, I had to interject.) recalled God’s compassion for the living, and determined that cells in a petri dish aren’t sacred because scripture informs her that “life begins in the womb” she said. Surveys show that Willocks is not alone in her reassessment.
Incredible is what I say. She is evidently an evangelical or fundamentalist bible alone Christian. If this doesn’t scare the hell out of Fundamentalists and evangelical Bible alone Christians I don’t know what will. How easy it is to interprut the Bible WRONGLY for yourself. Incredible. I say it again. Incredible. If you want to debate this it will be on the debate forum as well.
Of course the scriptures do say “before I formed you in your mothers womb I knew you” so perhaps she has a point. :wacko: Surely God knew there would be petri dishes and how babies could be made in one so he surely would have covered all the bases in scripture on this one.
“Peggy Willocks describes herself as a consdervative, anti-abortion Christian in the heart of the Bible Belt”, Johnson City Tenn. So when she considered embryonic stem-cell research two years ago, she found it naturally repulsive.
The view changed as it has for other religous Americans.This religious support or lack of it, could be instrumental as Congress and President Bush grapple with a bill to exampnd fedral funding…
“I was equating it with killing a child”, said Willocks, 54, who gives talks in support of such research. “I though of it as grinding up fetuses and all of that, so I didn’t want any part of it.”
What changed Willocks was a personal experience. (Here it comes folks).
She watched a frience and a fellow Parkinson’s sufferer get to where she could move only her eyes for two months before dying. Willocks then went back to her BIBLE. http://phorum.phatmass.com/html/emoticons/sadder.gif (she interpruted scripture on her experience rather than the other way around folks. Sorry, I had to interject.) recalled God’s compassion for the living, and determined that cells in a petri dish aren’t sacred because scripture informs her that “life begins in the womb” she said. Surveys show that Willocks is not alone in her reassessment.
Incredible is what I say. She is evidently an evangelical or fundamentalist bible alone Christian. If this doesn’t scare the hell out of Fundamentalists and evangelical Bible alone Christians I don’t know what will. How easy it is to interprut the Bible WRONGLY for yourself. Incredible. I say it again. Incredible. If you want to debate this it will be on the debate forum as well.
Of course the scriptures do say “before I formed you in your mothers womb I knew you” so perhaps she has a point. :wacko: Surely God knew there would be petri dishes and how babies could be made in one so he surely would have covered all the bases in scripture on this one.