Decaying Morals

Manimals… here we go!

Ξ May 22nd, 2008 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Uncategorized |

Remember my… was it my second post? Remember when I told you about animal marriage? Well, here ’s the other facet of it.

The British Parliament has approved a bill that legalizes research combining human and animal embryos.

Here’s the story at One News Now .According to Dr. David Stevens of the Christian Medical Association I quote him saying,

“Scientists combining human DNA and animal DNA is grossly unethical. It blurs the line between humans and animals. It blurs male and female, parent and child. It’s an assault on human dignity and the integrity of the human species,” Stevens contends.
 
According to Stevens, there is also a huge moral question, which many scientists are apparently ignoring. “It takes away from the uniqueness of human beings and the fact that we are made in God’s image. It crosses a moral divide in medicine, from which it’s going to be very difficult to step back … in the years to come,” Stevens explains.

I agree! To me they are trying to play God. We are not mammals, birds, fish, or plants to be hybrid. Some people that believe in evolution, don’t believe that man has a unique significance unlike any other species in this universe.

Psalm 139:14 says,

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

Genesis 1:26 says,

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, ^[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

I’m not sure what God will make of this. He may allow it to happen because the Anti-christ is supposed to be a beast. Does that mean literally?

I know what Genesis 1:28 says,

“God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground.” 

If man were meant to be hybrid with animals, why would he commanded this of Adam and Eve?

Here’s what else Steven’s said that bares much weight.

“Creating the embryos opens the possibility of increasing the virulence of certain viral and bacterial diseases as you combine animal and human cellular material into the same cell,” he explains. “We don’t know what the effect’s going to be. One scientist said it’s like children playing with land mines. We don’t know what this technology is going to do to human beings.”

For ages, there is talk that AIDS was cause with humans mating with monkeys. Which blows the whole evolution theory out of the water too. Only like animals can produce other like animals. Why isn’t there a monkey-man? Where is that “missing link”? If they were roaming the earth, we should find evidence of that by now. But yet… it hasn’t been found.

Starbucks

Ξ May 15th, 2008 | → 1 Comments | ∇ morals |

Well, I don’t go to Starbucks. I have probably went two times in my life and I got smoothies. The problem? I don’t drink coffee. (Gasp!!!)

Say what you must but I have never liked the taste of that bitter stuff. It isn’t though I haven’t been exposed to it because my Mom drank like, thirty cups a day!!! I really doesn’t matter what I put in it either… I just don’t like it.

But, I will say, I get my jolt from an occasional Dr. Pepper in the morning, so I guess you would say that is my cup of “joe”.

Anyway… my honey saw this article on the internet and wondered if I wanted to write about it.

The problem, in case you don’t want to read it too much, is that Starbucks changed their logo on their coffee cups to this bare breasted woman with a crown on her head, and her fish bottom body with her legs spread open.

I read it and thought, well, I need to call the company and check it out. I mean it looked like an ugly drawing, to say the least, and certainly not impressive enough for a big company like Starbucks! When I reached the person on the other line, I asked him if they had changed their logo to a naked lady. With the ease of knowing all about calls like these, he said yes but that it was temporary. I asked him why they changed their logo. He said that the company owner decided to change it to show people that Starbucks was going to get back to their business roots. That it was the original logo back in 1972. I asked since it is temporary, when does it get changed back? The company didn’t have a specific date but it would be sometime in July. I asked him if he had any other comments about it because I was thinking that I would write about here and he said that I would have to talk to the press department about it. I declined to talk to them because I felt I got enough information.

Okay dokay… I was left with thinking, why would they feel that this was a “good” way to show people that they were getting back to their roots? Why was it only temporary if they wanted to show this? What other reasons did they have for doing this.

This is what I think.

I think that this is a tread in our country now. Have you ever heard of “Bad publicity, is still publicity?” I think that this is precisely why some companies dive into questionable material, advertising, and sponsorships. In my mind, here’s what happens.

1. The company wants to have more money or they get an activist in the corporate office.
2. They decide that questionable marketing gets a quick, cheap response. After all, the media gets involved and it is free advertising.
3. They implement the plan and watch the newspapers, internet, and newscasts.
4. They send out a memo to their PR people to make such and such statements.
5. They start to get email and phone calls telling them to pull their campaign, advertisement, commercials.
6. They have the CEO make a statement to the press.
7. They still don’t pull it and now they are getting support and complaints.
8. They milk it for as long as possible until they either figure out that it is helping or hindering their sales.
9. If they are lucky, they will have groups boycotting their product and get more empathy from groups that vow to shop wit them because they took this stand.
10. Things start to turn against them and sales are just starting to decrease.
11. They repent. The boycott is called off, their sales pick up and they are the good guys and everyone is encouraged to show them their support for doing the right thing.

Now do you feel used or played?

As I said, this is my theory but I think in a lot of cases right now, I am spot on!

Does this mean that you shouldn’t call, email or boycott? No! By all means, let them have it. In the end, you do what is right before your Lord. Let the Lord take care of them. They will get found out eventually.

What do you think?

Bible verses that fit this.

Proverbs 24:8, Proverbs 24:20, Proverbs 28:10, Matthew 12:35

Do you have more verses that would fit this situation? I bet you do!  

Campaigning

Ξ May 14th, 2008 | → 3 Comments | ∇ campaign |

Wow! What a surprising subject to write on now a days. By now, you are probably just sick of hearing about the election. I don’t blame you. I’m kind of sick too.

I’m sick of what the so called conservative party is telling me “this” is the man for me. I have news… he does not share my views and right now, I’m considering not voting at all! Thanks to Jill Stanek’s report for archiving a debate with Alan Keys, George Bush and John McCain. If you feel the way I do about abortion, how do you feel when you listen to this? Then look at this. McCain, seems to be a flip flopper. I can’t name all the friends that I have talked to that have no idea who to vote for, even before the primaries. With the memory of Ross Perot in mind, it becomes a choice of not voting for the so called conservative person and allowing the liberal party to take over, or voting for this person because he is the best of horrible choices in 2008. Is this the time for a third party? Can that work?

I think that the conservative party is pushing us fundamental Christians away. Year after year, they seem to be backing the candidates that are moderate to liberal. I even feel that some of the big non-denominational churches are rolling over to the somewhat social conservative and physically liberal.

So the question still remains. Do I settle or do I vote (or not vote) on principle?

A few days ago, I got the confirmation that there is a man out there that shares a lot of my views. His name is Bob Barr.

We lived in Georgia for about 5 years and Bob Barr was in office then. I thought I could really back this guy! He is socially and fiscally conservative. Please google his name to find out other things about him. Like Bob Barr Christian, Bob Barr impeachment, Bob Barr wives, Bob Barr abortion, and Bob Barr marriage. You might be surprised what you find.

I find myself wondering if the third big party is going to end up being the Libertarian Party. I know a lot of conservatives that are making the switch and ones that are closely looking at this party to decide if this might fit their views better.

This article would be one of my problems with them.

“We won’t demand laws or restrictions on other people who we may not agree because of personal actions or lifestyles. Think of us as a group of people with a “live and let live” mentality and a balanced checkbook.”

Hmmm… you had me until there. I wonder how abortion fits into this and I am really for one man, one woman and I think that unless they have something written into the law on this one, our country may see consequences that they never thought of when allowing these “different lifestyles” to be legally married. I’m not just talking fire and brimstone here. Things like over the top insurance benefits, marrying animals, marrying dead people, etc.

So, here I am again. Who in the world am I going to vote for? Am I voting party, or principle? Who is the closest to my beliefs? Do I pick and chose what issues are the most important to me and overlook the rest? Do I just not vote and let things happen to the country that maybe need to happen for God’s greater purpose? WHAT is God’s greater purpose?

What are you going to do and why?

Some follow up verses: 1 Peter 3:14, 1 John 3:7

My First Article… YEAH! American Idol

Ξ May 13th, 2008 | → 2 Comments | ∇ Hollywood |

Introducing Decaying Morals

Ξ May 13th, 2008 | → 2 Comments | ∇ morals |