Religious Hypocrites Are The Best Hypocrites
Man, I just love people who preach one thing whilst doing another. Take the current debate on stem cell research between the government and the catholic church. Essentially they are against creating and destroying something smaller than the full stop at the end of this sentance because…. well I don’t really know. They claim its to “protect life” but the whole purpose of this bill is to allow scientists the oppurtunities to find cures for diseases such as parkinsons and cancer.
For example this article details:
A potential cure for Parkinson’s disease has come a significant step closer today with a study showing that it is possible to treat the degenerative brain disorder with cells derived from cloned embryos – a development condemned by the Roman Catholic Church.
Dr Kieran Breen (nice to see he spells it correctly) adds:
“Stem cell therapy offers great hope for repairing the brain in people with Parkinson’s. It may ultimately offer a cure, allowing people to lead a life that is free from the symptoms of Parkinson’s.”
So why would you try and stop that? Why would you try and remove the one hope people have of escaping the shackles of this dreadful disease? I wonder what kind of God would be happy with his loyal subjects and cardinals campaigning to condemn others to a death sentance?
Finding a cure for Parkinsons, or Cancer or any other disease would be a modern miracle - not like something that may or may not have happened 2000 years ago in a much altered badly translated book about a dusty place know one can really pinpoint. A miracle with real tangible proof. Something that would benefit hundreds of thousands, millions even - not just the few people who happen to need a crutch to get through life. But then I guess only Catholics are allowed miracles.
Its not the first time they’ve been against Science. Galileo was threatened with death by Catholics when he claimed the earth was not the center of the universe. People were horribly tortured and put to death by Catholics for suggesting the earth wasn’t flat. Even today it continues, with the spread of African Catholicism condemming the continent to over population and helping to spread AIDS wide and far - all because of a morbid irrational fear of a little piece of rubber.
Perhaps the real problem is that people today are being guided by an organisation with an appaling human rights record that was started before the world was a sphere and that has no relevence in todays society.
Catholicism certainly shouldn’t be trying to dictate my chances of a cure should I be struck down by Parkinsons.
Filed by Kieran at March 26th, 2008 under Blog, Complaint!, Science