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Yes, Bob...it is unfathomable.

Like the Nazis and their tatooed lampshades.

Whaaat?

Kyrie Eleison.

ALICE:

Christ is in our midst!! He is and always will be!!

But is this not the very point--the point we try to make during Great Lent. It is in accepting the Lord's Will for us that we find happiness. It is precisely because we feel that we must have our own way regardless of what God may be telling us through our biology. It seems to me that we must listen for His Voice in everything that comes along in our lives. And sometimes this means that we suffer in silence when things seem to be opposite to what we want. Soemtimes we suffer with tears in our eyes because that's all that we can do.

That whole thread about suffering being our path to glory isn't just pious stuff. It's something that we need to knead into our spirits. Or in the word's of Metropolitan Philaret of Moscow "I worship in silence Thy Holy Will and Thine inscrutible ways."

I've wanted many different things to happen in my life. They haven't. Some were beyond my reach. Others were frustrated deliberately by family for one reason or another. But in all things God has been with me. I am absolutely convinced of that.

I worship in silence His Holy Will and His inscrutible ways.

BOB

Moscow, March 10, Interfax - The US President will be held accountable to God for lifting limits on stem cell research, Hieromonk Dimitry (Pershin) believes.

"The democratic president has brought American science back to extensive development. It is not inconceivable that the world will hold another Nuremberg Trial to condemn the destruction of human lives at the embryonic stage of development. But even Obama is unable to escape the Heaven, and the Heaven holds Judgment," Fr. Dimitry, Chairman of the Committee for Biomedical Ethics and Medical Law of the All-Russian Orthodox Youth Movement, said to Interfax-Religion.

According to Fr. Dimitry, "Obama pays those who have voted for him at his elections with human lives which are at the embryonic stage of development."

"Experiments on humans without the voluntary consent of the human subject were practiced in the Nazi Germany and have been banned in 1947 by the Nuremberg Code issued after the Nuremberg Trials and the following Declaration of Helsinki in 1963; however, this ban has never covered the lives of unborn humans. Medical fascism, therefore, has drifted to this area of practice," Fr. Dimitry said.

Fr. Dimitry noted that "we are facing a paradox: "the freest democracy in the world," a guarantor of liberal values, and a complete legal nihilism in stem cell research".

"Ethical norms narrow down the margin of experiments, but thereby they suggest the direction to move forward. Japan has excluded human stem cells experiments, and as a result it became the first country to produce embryonic stem cells from skin. Americans followed them in that and obtained similar results thanks in large part to the ban on human stem cell experiments introduced by a conservative and Christian President Bush Jr.," he said.

It's stupid: embryonic stem cell research. There are stem cells from other sources that can be used.

Superficially, they are doing this for convenience as well as to "justify" abortion.

But I suspect the real reason is the money. You can patent a specific kind of living creature that you've developed for medical research, after all . . .

-- John