Lets get it straight that the old tale of a human clone being grown and then harvested for organs is a load of crap, organs themselves would be cloned, not a whole human being.
Im just interested, is there any certain part of the religion that prohibits cloning? It doesnt have an impact on how sacred you think human life is, so why be against it, especially when it has so many positive aspects.
2006-07-11 01:52:49 · 22 answers · asked by A Drunken Man 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Couple of side notes.
I dont believe in a soul, sorry.
Me and my wife created a life a month ago.
2006-07-11 02:00:52 · update #1
By some peoples reasoning a cloned human would have no soul, would this be evident? and if so, would this not be the only real world validation Christians can give that the soul exists.
Also, God has plans by killing babies with cancer and AIDS? I thought God couldnt stop free will, then how is his plan for people to infect each other with HIV?
2006-07-11 02:04:20 · update #2
Hey guys, im not saying only Christians have a problem with cloning, i know many people look at the ethics of it. but im interested in the reasons why Christians do and if they are based in some kind of religious belief only.
Cheers
2006-07-11 02:28:17 · update #3
Christianity is rooted in a tradition thousands of years old. It does not want to inject modern science into its dogma and upset the apple cart. Cloning raises issues that cannot be addressed by ancient concepts, such as does a clone have a soul? Clones also are not produced in a natural way, which leaves Christianity dumbfounded. The Bible does not talk about clones -leaving the naturally conservative theologians to dismiss cloning as an abomination.
2006-07-11 02:02:09 · answer #1 · answered by The Man 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think the reduction of the body to a collection of cells (rather than a person) is what bothers many people.
If body parts become a commodity, bought and sold over the counter, it's very easy to foster the same attitudes that underlay things like the American slave trade back in the 1800's or organized prostitution nowadays -- the "person" doesn't exist, they are just bodies/parts to be sold and purchases as tools.
People have wanted to preserve (even if it is artificial) a real boundary around the nature of human beings and their bodies. This seems pretty wise. We've all seen what happens when we stop viewing people as sacred beings.
How far will it go? Once the attitude of deconstructing human beings is there, there is no real limit on how the physical body could be abused and dissected. Mass production of body parts (let alone bodies) inadvertently instigates a callousness towards human life, even while it seeks to save it.
(Besides, how will you limit what is grown where? If we can mass-produce organs, that will eventually be seen as no real different from cloning whole people and harvesting the parts. Once the body is reduced to basic flesh, it becomes nothing but collateral -- regardless of how it is grown.)
Nowadays, people have to die (depending on the organ) for others to receive the parts and have a shot at living. Because of the cost involved, current transplants do not devalue human life -- we know that, every time one person has lived, another has died. We have turned what would be a mere sales transaction into a gift from one person to another.
Harvesting large crops of organs, again, is much different and fosters different attitudes.
I can appreciate its usefulness and practicality, but I'd be afraid to go there. Some boundaries we just have to create and then not cross them, since the moral/social cost might be too high.
2006-07-11 09:05:00 · answer #2 · answered by Jennywocky 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm sorry - I know this is not really answering your question - but I am sick and tired of the ignorant "clones have no souls" line. Lets talk for a moment about human twins (natural). Basically, two identical twin humans have the same DNA - the relationship between two twins is the same relationship that would be present between a person and his or her clone. Would anyone here say that twins only have half of a soul, or that one of them has no soul at all? Of course not. Go back to high school biology - maybe then you will be able to put forth intelligent answers on topics you actually understand.
2006-07-11 09:22:55 · answer #3 · answered by Niebla 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the part that most distressing to Christians is that only God should create life. Also if you believe that we have a soul than what part does that play in cloning? Will they not have a soul? share a soul? And let's face it with the world overpopulated as it is why do we need to clone people?
2006-07-11 08:57:21 · answer #4 · answered by lady25mo2001 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't have a problem with organ cloning. That is just making a transplant organ that is 100% compatible. I do think it would be a scientist playing God though to clone an entire person. It would be vanity. And human life would be cheapened if you could just grow it in a petri dish. Playing God is a sin, blasphemy I believe.
2006-07-11 09:04:08 · answer #5 · answered by scrapiron.geo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am not aware of any part of the Bible specifically against cloning, but it is very easy to go in the way of perdition. Did you read anywhere that you should take a bath everyday?
Cloning is an attempt to equal God but then How do you figure out the spirit and the soul? There is bound to be fakes wherever original abounds.
2006-07-11 09:03:44 · answer #6 · answered by Sage_Learner 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To address this properly, I am a Muslim and I can comment as following:
- I am believer in God and that God created everything for a purpose and a function. The purpose is worship God and the function is each role in developing Earth.
- Based on that
- So Cloning in principal is allowed by God simply because we can not know something that God did not want us to know.
-Was Cloning stated in Quran, Bible?..So religious people can not literally say it is forbidden by God.
-Discovering the function of cloning is our Mankind mission to utilize it in the proper way.
-Thus cloning issue today is that how can be utilized correctly the same way we know how to kill each other, but how to set rules for good killing and bad killing.
2006-07-11 09:15:23 · answer #7 · answered by egyptian_youth 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm am Christian and the reason why is because by cloning, ppl are trying to be God..which they are not. In the Christian aspect, we have souls - and that is us, the person that goes to heaven. Ppl cannot made a soul and therefore they are not God. Without a soul, there is no life in the person.
Ppl are trying to be God by cloning.
2006-07-11 08:58:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What has made you generalise on Christianity having a cloning issue??? I mean, all religions are fearful about the idea that the human being will eventually find the means to really overcome all natural and historical boundaries and EITHER transcend OR fail, utterly hopelessly fail in his/her quest for the ultimate perfection.
it is always a matter of human ethos, probably?
When we do find out, it will be (hopefully) not too late to ponder on it at that time...
2006-07-11 09:20:02 · answer #9 · answered by lena225 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It DOES have an impact on the sanctity of life. All life is cheapened if you can grow selected bits of humans in petri dishes.
Also, it's not just Christians who have a problem with human cloning. It's an ethical issue that many non-Christians disagree with as well.
2006-07-11 08:56:04 · answer #10 · answered by Cols 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋