SMH: Embryo cloning gets the go-ahead, after the conscience vote from the house of representatives last night. A truly sad day for Australia, where its protestant root has been long forgotten. John Howard’s speech transcript is actually a nice read, where he argued from Christian’s point view against relativism. Also noted that both John Howard and opposition leader Kevin Rudd, who also has a Christian view, voted against the bill. So were other known Christians/Catholics like Peter Costello and Tony Abbott (may I also add Peter Garrett?). Instead of splitting between Liberal and Labor, you can draw a line between those who voted “Yes” and “No” — and you get pretty much good idea on who hold conservative value and who don’t. An interesting point though — MPs are supposed to be representatives, but were they elected by their point of view on this embryo cloning matter?
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Faith, Technology and Randomness in Life, According to Scott
Dec 7 2006
It was an extremely sad day… And yet, it’s even sadder because what happened that day has a say over the present and the future (at least “earthly future”)…
Much worse is the fact that so many people thought of it as a day of victory(!) Such sinfulness!!!
And yet, I’m also grieved by the fact that I didn’t care and pray about this as much as I probably could and should have…
We all need mercy…
But I guess hard things like this (and many others) help us Christians to call on God and look forward even more to the day when Psalm 2 will takes its final fulfilment…
Come, Lord Jesus!
I fear it will get worse before it gets any better. But hey, you cannot undo years of creeping nihilism in a day or so. Keep up the good works! I’ll link to you! God bless!