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A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word
stirs up anger. --Proverbs 15
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Q: What do baseball players eat on?
A: Home plates!

Q: What was the reporter doing at the ice cream shop?
A: Getting the scoop!

Q: How do you fix a broken tomato?
A: With tomato paste.
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Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best of minds.
Men and women live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies
into which they never enter and with their hand on the doorlatch
they die outside. GK Chesterton



Trust in yourself and you are doomed to disappointment;
trust in money and you may have it taken from you;
but trust in God, and you are never to be confounded in
time or eternity. - D.L. Moody



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Four important things to KNOW:

1) For ALL (Americans, Muslims, Jews, Catholics, Hindus, Buddhist,
Asians, Presbyterians, Europeans, Baptist, Brazilians, Mormons,
Methodist, French, etc.) have sinned & fall short of the glory of God.

2) For the wages of above (see #1) are DEATH (Hell, eternal separation
from God, & damnation) but the Gift (Free & at No Charge to you) of
God (Creator, Jehovah, & Trinity) is Eternal Life (Heaven) through (in
union with) Jesus Christ (God, Lord, 2nd Person of The Trinity, Messiah,
Prince of Peace & Savior).

3) For God so greatly loved & dearly prized the world (Americans, Muslims,
Jews, Catholics, Hindus, Buddhist, Asians, Presbyterians, Europeans, Baptist,
Brazilians, Mormons, Methodist, French, etc.) that He even gave up His only begotten
(unique) Son, that whosoever (anyone, anywhere, anytime - while still living)
believes (trust in, relies on, clings to, depends completely on) Him shall have
eternal (everlasting) life (heaven).

4) Jesus said: "I am THE WAY, THE TRUTH, & THE LIFE. No one (male/female
- American, Muslim, Jew, Catholic, Hindu, Buddhist, Asian, Presbyterian,
European, Baptist, Brazilian, Mormons, Methodist, French, etc. ) comes (arrives) to
the Father (with GOD in Heaven) EXCEPT BY (through) ME (no other name).

This wonderful loving GOD gives you the choice - - -
(Rev. 3:20)

{Please note that church membership, baptism, doing good things, etc. are
not requirements for becoming a Christian however they are great afterwards!!!}

Jesus said, "Wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction
(Hell, damnation, eternal punishment), and many enter through it. But small
is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life (Heaven, eternal happiness,
forever with God), and only a few find it. --Matthew 7:13-14
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The Biotech Century
Dream or Nightmare?


February 27, 2006


Nations around the world are banning human cloning. The UN General Assembly passed a resolution calling for the practice to be banned everywhere. In addition, one of the biggest and most newsworthy human cloning experiments, in Korea, turned out to be a complete fake.

Well, it would look like the "Biotech Century," as some have been calling it, is off to an unpromising start.

If so, that's something for which we can be grateful, because the closer we get to the cloning and commodification of human life—even for purposes that seem well-intentioned—the more we endanger all human beings.

President Bush put his finger on this when he said in his State of the Union address, "A hopeful society has institutions of science and medicine that do not cut ethical corners, and that recognize the matchless value of every life." The president went on to ask Congress for a ban on "the most egregious abuses of medical research: human cloning in all its forms." Notice that includes both reproductive cloning and so-called therapeutic cloning. It's tremendously important that the president made that distinction clear, because it's an appalling sign of our times just how many people—including many of our United States senators—think it's perfectly fine to clone a human embryo so long as you plan to experiment on it and then destroy it before it can be brought to birth.

You may recall I talked recently about former senator and ambassador Jack Danforth and his slams against his fellow Christians. One of the many things he blames us for is "criminaliz[ing] research because we want to save cells in a petri dish that will never be implanted in a uterus and never become people."

That kind of dreadful misreading of such a crucial issue is unpardonable, especially coming from a Christian. Unfortunately, however, it's all too common among lawmakers who, unlike Danforth, are still active in politics and have the power to make laws that would allow us to buy, sell, and experiment on human life. And that's why, despite so many promising developments around the world, we're having such a hard time pushing through a comprehensive cloning ban in the United States.

And as if that weren't bad enough, we have another threat to deal with on the biotechnology front: the advancing science of nanotechnology. If cloning threatens to redefine what it means to be human, nanotechnology takes it to the next level. My friend and colleague Nigel Cameron, of the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity, puts it this way: Abortion and euthanasia are taking life, cloning is making life, and nanotechnology and cybernetics are faking life. Nanotechnology—which, again, is being promoted as helping those with dread diseases—holds the dangerous potential of controlling or possibly even re-engineering human nature.

I know this stuff is complicated, and if you're like I am, science is hard to understand sometimes. But this is life-and-death stuff, and we have got to know more about it and be able to press for ethical guidelines. Call us, won't you, here at BreakPoint (1-877-322-5527) or visit our website (www.breakpoint.org) to find out more about it and what you can do.
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Unmistaken Identity
Jill Carattini

The Internet has undoubtedly transformed the ways in which we live, work,
learn, and play. We are clicks away from discussing politics with someone
on a different continent, or researching history from libraries in Europe.
From our own living rooms, we can connect with lives all over the world.

Cyberspace is truly a vast world, and the extent of its influence grows
daily. And while I am the first to applaud the astonishing tool that it
is, I am also dismayed to see the ways in which it is abused and the
negative consequences that arise daily. Countless reports discuss the
explosion of Internet pornography, while other articles report the growing
phenomenon of specialty chat rooms-suicide and eating disorder blogs where
members can gain insight from one another.

Just decades ago, it would have seemed odd to hear of Internet addiction
or of the many online ethical issues. Yet today psychologists actually
have a name for the study of Internet-related conditions, and college
classes are now being taught on the psychology of cyberspace.

In this, it is interesting to note what psychologists are calling the
"online disinhibition effect."(1) The term describes the differences in
behavior between the real world and the non-face-to-face world of the
Internet. The theory explains how the sense of anonymity and invisibility
in the virtual world causes people to behave in ways they would not
otherwise in the real world-the effects of which are quite often
destructive.

It strikes me that the effect of disinhibition is simply an embracing of
the hazardous idea of facelessness. An intangible identity allows for
intangible morality. Pirating a CD is overwhelmingly perceived less a
crime than walking into a store and stealing it. Actions in the name of
anonymity have somehow become more acceptable.

Juxtapose a culture growing comfortable with the whims of facelessness and
a society growing largely comfortable with a faceless God, and there is
much to think about. Spirituality has become one of the most popular
subjects to write about, yet God has become in countless minds a mere
impersonal force, vast and neutral.

Christianity teaches something quite the contrary, and it is unique to any
other religion. The Gospel of John memorably reports, "For God so loved
the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believes in
him will not perish but will have everlasting life" (3:16). The face and
identity of God is something unmistakably significant; it is central to
the Christian message. That Christ was begotten of the Father is more
vital than we often realize, and in a culture that increasingly grows
comfortable with facelessness, it is of utmost significance. Jesus was
not created, but begotten. He is not the same person as the
Father, but is of the same essence as the Father. When we look at Christ,
we see the Father.

That God reveals Himself to us in the person of Christ is the hopeful,
certain message to an uncertain world. God is not a faceless being, but a
divine Person, in whose image your face was created. Jesus Christ is a
sharer of our very humanity, a face that looked out upon the crowd of
mockers, cynics, and skeptics alike, and on the cross spoke the words with
your image in mind, "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do."
We are never faceless, and his is the face of matchless love.


(1) John Suler Ph.D. "The Online Disinhibition Effect." In the Psychology
of Cyberspace, (2001).


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