Here's a few things that happened today that I might have blogged about at length if they let me blog at work.
Just so you know, dickheads, the idea of separation of church and state protects your stupid religious beliefs. The Pilgrims weren't fleeing England because they didn't like the food.
3. Today my district manager sent out an email with her "sales tip" of the day: "Views, opinions, and preferences are based on each individual's perceptions and experiences. Listening and acknowledging these do not mean you endorse them." Maybe I'm a little paranoid, but that sounds a like a response to my Pep Talk rant from earlier. OMG! Does my boss read my blog?
2. Synthetic Life: "Applications of the study include the production of medicines and biofuels, and could even help in the absorption of greenhouse gases." But that comes with a caveat: "Some will worry about the idea that this involves a problematic form of playing God." And that prediction is panning out. There's already a Facebook page dedicated to stopping synthetic life.
My question is, what do we mean by "playing God". Is that the part where we make life ex nihilo, or the part where they stifle scientific progress with their platitudinous moralizing?
3. Today my district manager sent out an email with her "sales tip" of the day: "Views, opinions, and preferences are based on each individual's perceptions and experiences. Listening and acknowledging these do not mean you endorse them." Maybe I'm a little paranoid, but that sounds a like a response to my Pep Talk rant from earlier. OMG! Does my boss read my blog?
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the sep of church and state is a protection against all of our rights--religious and non-religious. How would the Christian Right feel if the Wiccan lobby were to enforce the teaching of Wicca in the classroom? Sheesh...they would invoke church-state separation to no end. This is very upsetting to me as, again, they (the American conservative Christian communities) stand on the wrong side of justice and in favor of a perverted concept of right and wrong, one that frankly defy even a contextual reading of the Bible.
ReplyDeleteThis synthetic life thing is significant. I mean, this could lead to algae that grows beef protein or fish oil. There is a lot of potential here for us to "...subdue [the earth]: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.." (Gen 1:28).
Well said, Script.
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