X-Message-Number: 29146
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 07:20:40 -0800 (PST)
From: un person <>
Subject: re: the Cryonics gospel--a partial response in general to my ...

a variant of prosperity-gospel protestantism that sees
cryonics as an avenue of living out god's will would
necessarily require that cryonics be a SCIENCE and NOT
a religion. I am not proposing that cryonics be a
religion, per se, but that there should be a
church(churches) that preaches a variant of
christianity that sees cryonics as a way of fulfilling
god's will to raise the dead and to create heaven on
earth. 

And in order for cryonics to fulfill god's will as
expressed in the bible, cryonics must remain a science
and must be a rigorous and well funded science.
Funding cryonics would be a way of fulfilling god's
will. One problem is the interpretation of scripture
that provides the basis for such pro-cryonics gospel.
As I posted previously, there is a basis for such
gospel in the bible. But there needs to be more.  More
creative interpretation of the bible so as to show
that god wants us to all be cryonicists.

Finding the biblical foundation for a pro-cryonics,
prosperity-gospel cryonics is the first step. Then
suitably charismatic preacher-cryonicists must be
recruited and trained. And they must find a flock and
a church.

This would all be separate from cryonics
organizations. If these organizations were not
rigorous and capable with respect to research and
cryopreservation, they would not be acting so as to
fulfill God's command that we raise the dead. So the
cryonics orgs would and should carry on as they are.
And if they do so, and if a pro-cryonics gospel
movement is born, they would benefit monetarily from
that movement.

This is not about changing cryonics, other than to
increase funding and membership. Cryonics itself would
stay the same. But a new branch of prosperity gospel
be born.  And we must create it. God told us that in
the bible.

For some idea of where I am coming from, google up
some videos of prosperity gospel, word of faith
preachers such as joel osteen or robert tilton. Those
are just two of hundreds.

-unperson




 


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