"Hands" of God Thought

The question was asked in Faith Sharing this week at Church: How do you reconcile your image of God of the Old-Testament with the image of God of the New-Testament?

I immediately thought, "There is no difference; It's the same God."

After some others talked about their ideas, I came up with one I never thought of before.

I talked about how the universe is expanding due to the change of entropy. (I asked, "Into what is the universe expanding?" Someone said the universe was infinite; I don't know about that.)

Anyway, I imagined God as holding the universe in His personified hands while it expands. God is able to care for the universe like the song says, "He's got the whole world (universe) in His hands." At the same time (out of time but in time since God "is". Note to Dawkiners: No, God is not created, He just is), He is able to guide, punish, or even crush part of the universe with His fingers. This is one way how I "reconcile" the two views.

What do you think? (Really)

Powerful Ignorance Buys Power

I've been reading the thoughts of three currently powerful politicians about when they think human life begins.

From Secretary of State Clinton:
"I believe that the potential for life begins at conception," said Mrs Clinton.
"But for me, it is not only about the potential life, but the other lives involved."

From President Obama:
Mr Obama said he did not know whether life begins with conception.
"This is something that I have not, I think, come to a firm resolution on... I don't presume to know the answer to that question," he said.
"What I know... is that there is something extraordinarily powerful about potential life and that that has a moral weight to it that we take into consideration when we're having these debates."

From former President Clinton:
In a recent interview with CNN’s Sanjay Gupta, former President Bill Clinton repeatedly referred to human embryos as “unfertilized,” adding that, if they were fertilized, they would “become human beings.” (emphasis added)

Why are they so ignorant?

Remember Dr. Evil's pinky finger:
Perhaps for evil power?
(Duh note: in America, power=money)

(May I suggest that they read up on real science (as opposed to political science that is changed by money) at the (usually Atheist) Libertarians for Life science page.)

As demonstrated above, scientifically there is absolutely no question whatsoever that the immediate product of fertilization is a newly existing human being. A human zygote is a human being. It is not a "potential" or a "possible" human being. It's an actual human being — with the potential to grow bigger and develop its capacities.

Some Marriage Advice

I've been married over just seven years, but I think I have some marriage advice from observing my marriage and others.

If you think the option of divorce is open when you marry, you will eventually divorce. If you do not think the divorce option is open, you will try your hardest to keep from divorcing.

Some might say religion helps since it teaches that divorce is immoral. I would say Christianity helps since you strive to lay down your life for the other as Christ and the Church laid and lays down their lives for each other.

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In the same vain as above, I also have some advice about sexual morality as it comes to abortion. When you engage in sexual relations with another, if you think abortion is an option, it will happen.

Before you engage in sexual relations, know that the outcome might be a baby, even if birth control is used. If you don't want a baby, don't engage in sexual relations with another. Period.


Just a thought.

St. Patrick in the USA

Happy Saint Patrick's Day to everyone!
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Our new Pres. says there's cause for alarm
The scientists are all up in arms.
With a percentage of three
Of the Irish is he.
May his blarney be only a charm!

Cut all the money (public and private) for the unethical, immoral, and nonsensical (there are moral etc. alternatives) embryonic stem cell research (ESCR).

(They're people!)
(I know the Soylent Green analogy doesn't exactly work, but I love how he does this: it's over the top, but the facts about ESC and abortion (etc.) are also just so over the top.)

Oh! that we could have Saint Patrick drive out the snakes of this country.

Personhood in Maryland

Here's the person who introduced the Maryland Personhood Amendment.

Please pray for my state, and if you are a citizen of Maryland, please call or write or come out this Friday to speak to the Delegate Council.

Information on how to do your part is here (from my blog) and here (the main mdpersonhood website).

It's All About Priorities

A couple of weeks ago, I talked to someone at Church about Amnesty International (AI). He said that he supported them in their fight for justice around the world.

During our conversation, I remembered that AI was now a pro-abortion lobby group according to lifesitenews.com (1 2 3).

So, this last Sunday, I gave a printout of the above articles (and a couple more) to him. He said that he didn't believe it (as in, "I don't believe these papers"). I said that I knew he wrote letters for AI, but I assumed he did not contribute money to them. I was wrong, he did support them monetarily. I responded, "By giving money to them, they can use your money for their pro-abortion lobby."

As you can imagine, he tried to explain his reasons for contributing to them. When you get down to it, his main point was that he does not use a "litmus test" for determining to which charities he contributes: he looks at the organization as a whole. His bottom line: if AI supports abortion, they do so many other good things that they deserve his (monetary) support.

When he was done expressing his views, I said that I look at the numbers: it comes down to priority. The total abortions carried out worldwide in one year (42 million; 210 million in five years) was more than the total number of people that were exterminated by A. Hitler in all his German concentration camps (about 21 million in 5 years; there are about 2 times more abortions in one year worldwide that were killed in WWII concentration camps over five years).

What I didn't tell him was that if an organization pushes abortion, that entity would be disqualified by me. The same goes for political candidates.

Until we (those OTAAAC) start putting our priorities in stopping abortion (monetarily and politically) instead of the economy, war, poverty, etc., we won't see this most brutal institution come crashing down.

I'm not saying that the other causes are not important, I'm suggesting that if an organization is for abortion, they should not get monetary or political support by those OTAAAC.

Period.

Hearing for Maryland Personhood Amendment

This Friday, 13 March 2009, there will be a hearing regarding the Maryland Personhood Amendment, House Bill 925 at 1 p.m. If you cannot make it to the hearing, may I suggest that you call your representative and a delegate closest to your district on the "HEALTH & GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS COMMITTEE" to voice your support for the amendment (to be a ballot initiative).

If you do not know who your Maryland Delegates are, see this website.

(One of my Delegates co-sponsored this bill. (Thank you God!) Another of my Delegates (she was a nurse; perhaps "Do no harm?") is on the HEALTH & GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS COMMITTEE).

Label for Life

We've all heard of racism, sexism, ageism, speciesism (speciesism is illogical), etc.

I've been trying to come up for a label for those who discriminate based on a person's stage of development (those still not born after conception). The best I came up with until today was developmentism. It just doesn't work.

Then, today, it came to me: stageism (not stagism; hard "g").

What do you think? Do you have any better ideas? (I think it should be one word, preferably three syllables.)