posted on February 27, 2001 09:07:48 PM
As you see, they're hoping to hasten the Second Coming of Jesus in time for the 2000th anniversary of his birth.
CALIFORNIA GROUP 'CLONES' JESUS TO FULFILL PROPHESY
Like a plot from a futuristic movie, a secretive group in California plans to hasten the second coming of Christ by cloning Jesus. The Berkeley-based group Second Coming Project claims to be a nonprofit organization devoted to bringing about Jesus' return, as prophesied in the Bible, in time for the 2,000th anniversary of his birth.
"I'm hoping it will bring world peace," a source within the group told Fox News. The group claims 13 or 14 members from a wide range of religions, hometowns and professions. "Not some Armageddon as a tremendous battle where everyone dies, as some people believe."
The group hopes to acquire a small DNA sample from one of a number of Christian relics that allegedly include a piece of Jesus' body, such as a drop of blood or strand of hair.
According to the group's Web site, a cloned Jesus fetus must be placed in a female volunteer's womb no later than April and then carried to term for an "immaculate conception" on Dec.25.
To say the least, Christian groups are skeptical. Bill Merrell, with the Southern Baptist Convention, told Fox News the project is "the height of foolhardiness," "the highest silliness in the category of neither science nor religion" and "perfectly reprehensible," among other things.
Dr. Thomas Breiden-Thal, a professor of Christian ethics with an Episcopal seminary, told Fox News: "I would regard the attempt to bring back Jesus in the fashion [they] suggest as a crude misunderstanding of what is actually the goal of the Christian life, which is to become like Jesus ourselves."
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edited because I just realized tht the link was to an active chatboard. Posts were being made and were viewable after my having brought the link here.
[ edited by krs on Feb 28, 2001 08:01 AM ]
posted on February 27, 2001 10:22:23 PM
The first line of the article:
"Like a plot from a futuristic movie, a secretive group in California plans to hasten the second coming of Christ by cloning Jesus."
Hmm. More like a plot from a futuristic TV show, Star Trek: The Next Generation. The one where a secretive group of Klingons clones Kahless, the Klingon religious leader, who has been dead for a couple thousand years. Hmm.
posted on May 5, 2001 10:05:29 PM
If it does work, I would love to see the reaction when (in the words of Robin Williams) Jesus comes back, he's Black, 8 ft. tall and PISSED!
Keith
I assume full responsibility for my actions, except
the ones that are someone else's fault.
posted on May 6, 2001 04:56:38 AM
Yeah and we know how authentic all those relics the church sells are. They have enough pieces of the "true cross" to reforest a small state.
I worked with a Greek guy whose family had paid big bucks to the church for a supposed relic that was a nail clipping of a saint sewn up in a little satin pillow.
After he developed a weakness of faith because he didn't appreciate the Priest method of sexually educating young boys from the family he cut it open and they did not even have the decency to sell them a nail clipping - it was a little sliver of cardboard. I guess their nails didn't grow fast enough to keep up with the volume of business they were doing.
If they clone someone from a church provided relic of blood it may contain the blood of some priest's goat from the 3rd century.
"I would love to see the reaction when (in the words of Robin Williams) Jesus comes back, he's Black, 8 ft. tall and PISSED!"
He may just want to play basketball. Why should he be PISSED?
Some groups are suggesting that we should clone a Jesus for everyone!
"Thanks to advances in science we can take DNA samples from the shroud and use them to clone the second coming! This is fantastic, but to stop here woudl be blasphemy. Friends, we should clone a Jesus for anyone
who wants one.
Why, any woman that wanted to, could immaculately conceive Jesus. No more communication with God through your pastor or priest. If you have a question for God, you could just call home and ask him.
Just imagine a world with a Jesus in every household.
