Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Excommunication Is Sought for Stem Cell Researchers

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Mon, 3 Jul 2006, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:

> Mike Miller wrote:
>
> > According to the article below, "individual excommunication [is] the 
> > most serious punishment meted out by the church."  Whatever happened to 
> > burning at the stake?  Well, they've obviously lost their touch.  I 
> > would think that excommuncation (being kicked out of their club) would 
> > be a great benefit.  Who would want to be associated with backward, 
> > uninformed people who wear really weird clothes and have bizarre ideas? 
> > What good is that? It also seems to me that The Church takes a lot more 
> > money from their parishioners than they give back to them.  Certainly 
> > this is true of my Catholic mother.  Maybe I can get her to do some 
> > stem cell research. --Mike
>
>
> So, was this intended as flame bait?


Only for Catholics!  ;-)  Otherwise it was intended as humor -- funny 
because it's true.

As to whether Catholic leadership is "backward and uninformed," I guess 
you could argue that point.  Are they excommunicating people who do in 
vitro fertilization?  What about the people who discard unused embryos? 
I'm just saying that they come across as uninformed and inconsistent. 
Altogether, they are moving very slow to accept new scientific findings 
and new technologies.  Some other Christian groups are much worse than the 
Catholics in this regard.

Mike

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