2007-09-24 00:41:52 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Research all the way.
Churches suck up money, pay no taxes yet benefit from government services.
My money is on research that will help save lives.
2007-09-24 00:47:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 4⤋
Bro.. isn't this obvious? If you donate to a church or wherever then you are giving money to them to make there church better, in the long run it doesn't get you anywhere. If you donate money to embryonic stem cell research then you will help people in the long run, or later when the pope or some one gets a terrible sickness and nothing else can help him except, omg, the stuff that embryonic stem cell research came up with.
Catholics or Christians won't accept it until some one of high ranking people in their cult gets sick and the medications / treatments that embryonic stem cell research is the only thing that can help them.
2007-09-24 03:42:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Donating to my "church" (synagogue) saves more lives locally. Meanwhile, Israel is leading the way in stem cell research -- with or without my donations! Stem cell progress is being made all over the world -- it's only in the USA where research is being stifled. It reminds me of the way the Roman Catholic Church stifled progress for centuries. To this day, the Church has not admitted they were wrong about Galileo.
http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112388/galileo.htm
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2007-09-24 02:21:57 · answer #3 · answered by Hatikvah 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Even though I am a Catholic I believe in the long run that stem cell research is very important. I do not believe in any way that any Christian that goes for stem cell research is condemned in any way. God gave us free will to think and make choices on what our heart feels is the truth.
Nobody can ever know what will be a saving grace from this for a family member or a friend. Or for anyone in General. God gave people minds to use for the purpose of good and evil. I do not think that this wisdom or knowledge would have come about if God thought it was not for the benefit of man.
2007-09-24 01:24:15 · answer #4 · answered by sherry 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Most certainly embryonic stem cell research. Donating to a local church will only benefit the church and not benefit those who are suffering from medical conditions like Alzheimer.
Edit:
funny how someone below me claims this is not a religious question when in FACT religious organization have voiced their OPPOSITION towards stem cell research. Therefore this IS a religious question
2007-09-24 00:48:30 · answer #5 · answered by Imagine No Religion 6 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Embryonic stem cell research, clearly. Although I do donate to the Ethical Society, which is where I go most Sunday mornings. It's not actually a church, although legally it is a "religious organization."
2007-09-24 01:47:50 · answer #6 · answered by auntb93 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
donating to embryonic stem cell research
2007-09-24 00:49:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
No contest really, Embryonic stem cell research is far more important.
2007-09-24 00:48:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋
A contrarian view from a non-Christian.
If the church is funding prevention of starvation or a medical program somewhere it is most needed, then it will save more lives and do more good than stem cell research. Many third world societies need healthy able bodied people as much as they need anything else. Some societies are poor because half of the people are sick half the time from controllable infectious diseases.
Stem cell research promises to relieve the paralysed. The number of paralysed people is insignificant in western societies.
It promises to treat some forms of cancer. The number of people who get cancers early in life is insignificant and for some of those cancers there are already effective treatment.
Curing cancer in a 65 year old person is great, for the person and immediate family and friends but it is of no great benefit to any society as a whole. Cancers are and remain predominantly a disease of age.
2007-09-24 01:00:50 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 5⤋
Stem cell
2007-09-24 00:48:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
How about building your own charity and being sure about where your money goes?
If you donate to an embryonic stem cell research you cannot be sure whether they are gonna use it for good reasons or not.
2007-09-24 00:47:31 · answer #11 · answered by Zifikos 5 · 2⤊ 5⤋