{"id":508,"date":"2007-01-03T17:14:16","date_gmt":"2007-01-03T17:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/?p=508"},"modified":"2025-09-30T02:58:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T02:58:06","slug":"great_editorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/?p=508","title":{"rendered":"Great Editorial in “Christianity Today”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is a wonderful editorial in the Evangelical magazine, Christianity Today<\/strong><\/em>, weaving together illicit research on embroyos with other life – especially end of life – issues. We include an excerpt, but urge you to read the entire article. And pass it along to your pastor!<\/p>\n

Go Gently into That Good Night | Christianity Today | A Magazine of Evangelical Conviction<\/a><\/p>\n

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Sherwin Nuland, a surgeon and author of How We Die<\/em>, peppers his book with warnings of the hubris of scientists. "The fantasy of controlling nature lies at the very basis of modern science. \u2026 The ultimate aim of the scientist is not only knowledge for the sake of knowledge, but knowledge with the aim of overcoming that in our environment which he views as hostile. None of the acts of nature (or Nature) is more hostile than death."<\/p>\n

Nuland says medical science will never find the Fountain of Youth. "Every triumph over some major pathology, no matter how ringing the victory, is only a reprieve from the inevitable end."<\/p>\n

Perhaps our culture clings so tenaciously to the hope of extended youthfulness and lasting life because we have shoved death from view. "All the things that once prepared us for death\u2014regular experience with illness and death, public grief and mourning, a culture and philosophy of death, interaction with the elderly, as well as the visibility of our own aging\u2014are virtually gone from our lives," writes Virginia Morris in Talking About Death<\/em>. "Instead, we are tempted daily by that perfect apple, by promises of youth and immortality."<\/p>\n

The apple that’s currently tempting our society is the half-million frozen human embryos created in fertility clinics. Our culture so clings to life that it is prepared to legislate taking of life at its earliest stages in order to graft it on at the end.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is a wonderful editorial in the Evangelical magazine, Christianity Today, weaving together illicit research on embroyos with other life – especially end of life – issues. We include an excerpt, but urge you to read the entire article. And pass it along to your pastor! Go Gently into That Good Night | Christianity Today […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1052,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions\/1052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}