Thursday, November 22, 2007

WHY WE ARE NOT GOD. (1)

Progressively, people are finding out that they are not God and they don’t know everything. Therefore they are to humble themselves and work for Human’s benefit.
The famous Scottish embryologist researcher Ian Wilmut, the creator of Dolly the sheep, has courageously turned his back on therapeutic cloning with human embryos in spite of enormous European funds he received. He decided to join the Japanese Dr. Shinya Yamanaka who has found a way to create human embryo stem cells without the need for human eggs and without the need to create and destroy human cloned embryos.
This passed Tuesday, November 20th, we heard that a Japanese researcher’s teams (in fact Yamanaka’ team) with and American teams researchers have successfully produced Embryonic Stem Cells from skin which have the same characteristics as those derived from embryos. From now on, many deceases as cancer, diabetes or Alzheimer might be treated. This is a good news. So, the debate about the use of human embryo for producing stem cell should be close! Let’s rejoice that thousands of children will be rescued. As Mr Wilmut told The Daily Telegraph, it’s an ethically correct, just and wise new way in the biomedical research.
Many people around the world were happy to hear the news above all those who want Human Beings to progress according to the moral, human and healthy values.
Unfortunately, some scientists are taking other sinful ways. They want, at all costs, to fulfill their will by manipulating the human specie and giving him a strange aspect. This is a threat for Humanity.
Actually in these days, politicians in Britain are to pass the bill about “Human fertilization and Embryology”. This bill will legalize the creation of human-animal embryos. In fact, researchers will use together the human sperm and animal eggs to form a person!
Two of the Catholic Britain Church’s official, the cardinal Keith O'Brien and archbishop Mario Conti of Glasgow have reacted strongly against this bill. They made a statement in which they urged politicians not to vote it because it can harm human dignity.
The issue is serious because some researchers are working for financial interest. So they forgot that they are human beings and therefore limited. But politicians don’t do anything. Instead of distinguishing things and making good decisions for citizen, they let drop all moral issues because of ideology based on false knowledge. Lawyers in their turn, hypnotized by the politic and parliamentary decisions, will put this stupid law in practice. Consequently, this behavior will sign the death of the separation of power advocated by Montesquieu. And democracy will become a weak government system.
Little by little, the world is going down because of a minority who claims to be…God. Fortunately, there are many facts in the history which bring us hope. In fact, there will be always people of good will led by the Holy Spirit as Ian Wilmut for helping us to think and for showing us the way to abandon our disastrous project, which is to destroy the creation. Let’s hope! God is among us.
Fr Maxime

Monday, October 22, 2007

HALLOWEEN OR THE ADORATION OF BAD SPIRITS (I)

October, 31st 2007. It is on the eve of All Saints’ Day. It is also Halloween according to a European pagan feast. During this day, many kids around the world are trying to act as the devil. It is also a best time for them to imitate, call, adore and celebrate the bad spirits.

On October 31st, we will see several kids dressing themselves up as a ghost with the bizarre clothes, going around the city, knocking on a door and asking small gifts. And people do not have to refuse. If so, our kids will curse them.
Moreover, the industries’ disguises are doing good deal: 5 billion dollars of turnover in USA in 1999 according to the National Retail Federation.
Should we stay in silence before these facts? How can we give way to the bad spirits in our world? We must not deal with the devil. He is there and every day, he wants to increase his power over Human Beings. John Paul II has spoken about him in his general audience in 1986. Here are some pieces:
“(…) As the evangelist Luke testifies, when the disciples returned to the Master full of joy at the fruits they had gathered in their first missionary attempt, Jesus utters a sentence that is highly evocative: "I saw Satan fall from heaven like lightning" (Lk 10:18). With these words, the Lord affirms that the proclamation of the Kingdom of God is always a victory over the devil, but at the same time he also reveals that the building up of the Kingdom is continuously exposed to the attacks of the spirit of evil.
(…) In the Old Testament, the narrative of the fail of man as related in the Book of Genesis, contains a reference to an attitude of antagonism which Satan wishes to communicate to man in order to lead him to sin (Gen 3:5). In the Book of Job too, we read that Satan seeks to generate rebellion in the person who is suffering (cf. Job 1:11; 2:5-7). In the Book of Wisdom (cf. Wis 2:24), Satan is presented as the artisan of death, which has entered man's history along with sin.

(…) In the Fourth Lateran Council (1215), the Church teaches that the devil (or Satan) and the other demons "were created good by God but have become evil by their own will".
It is clear that if God "does not forgive" the sin of the angels, this is because they remain in their sin, because they are eternally "in the chains" of the choice that they made at the beginning, rejecting God, against the truth of the supreme and definitive Good that is God himself...