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In spite of the fact
that the present day man needs no special incentive to maintain his
pride hovering in orbital heights, modern science does not cease in
supplying it with novelties that continually nurture his illusory
presumption as the “lord of Creation”.
The so-called human cloning has
become an inexhaustible source of this type of headline. Be it good or
bad, the stratospheric human pride always goes even higher with the
countless articles that board the subject, evidencing itself both in
between, and also on the lines, invariably sprinkled with useful
exclamation marks. And that is what happens, and many begin to believe
that the human being is, in fact, the lord of Creation and, with a
little more effort, already practically equal to the Creator.
Practically, understand well, as it is always convenient to
preserve a certain apparent humility...
“Human cloning is morally
unacceptable!” both the Pope and the American president (who else)
reverberate in unison indignation. “Nobody is going to obstruct human
progress!” threatens on equal footing an almost monstrous Italian
doctor, seconded by a countless number of angered worshippers of
science. “Well, we have already produce cloned human embryos for
decades now!” the impassive Chinese scientists frighten the world,
hiding a smile only racially yellow before their western colleagues
that have been lagging well behind.
Pride, pride’s sterile debate is
everywhere concerning this hysterical confrontation over human
cloning. Even the ones that combat it are not exempt from it, because
they also believe that, if they want, modern day man can really take
over, on his own, the passionate activities of the Creator of the
Worlds.
Hundreds of badly formed fetuses
are necessary in order to get a single, apparently healthy,
cloned animal. Could it be this performance that the scientists are so
proud of? Or could it be the expense of thousands of hours and dollars
to produce hundreds of stillborn fetuses in a row? Perhaps they feel
powerful in performing the role of a prenatal serial killer? And what
would an eventual adult human clone think of all this? Would it pride
himself on his fratricidal birth? Would it be intrigued in knowing
that some frozen test tube in a laboratory served at times as the
traditional nervous father figure in the maternity ward?
Then there is the case of looking for the
pretentious benefits expected from the research on human cloning. In
order to do this, we have to go down to the deepest abyss of the
coarsest vanity and presumptuousness of man.
On the lowest degenerate step of cloning, in the
prehistory of the highest involution of ex-homo sapiens, we find a
ferocious maltha of Neanderthal-like academics, intent on developing
human clones with the only objective of supplying organs for
transplants (*). The simian eminences squatting around this insane
project, idolized like a totem, grunt that clones do not have a soul,
and therefore are not exactly human beings. In this assertive there
is, however, a subtle flaw of interpretation. As only one that for
sometime now has brought within himself only a corrupt soul as a
nucleus can actually make such an affirmation, as he has already
fallen from the level of being considered as a human being. This
attitude just proves that those who are in fact destitute of a true
soul are really they themselves. They are the ones that are not human
beings anymore. Really, it is not worth the effort in finding adequate
adjectives to qualify these ex-humans.
At an immediately superior step we see the
cryogenics, an apparently serious lot, but literally very hollow
headed. It is the group that authorizes the freezing of body parts
after death, preferentially the head, with the foolish hope of being
resuscitated at some time in the future through some cloning
technique. They believe that they will return in the future living in
the same body as now, naturally in the exciting company of mammoths
and pterodactyls, which certainly will surely return to life by the
simple copied method. What can we note about these people? For as
restricted as these people have turned out to be in their intellective
blindness, and as poorly as they see their crutch of materialism on
which they still support themselves, it is really difficult to
evaluate with clearness this kind of conduct. It is a type of
amalgamation of stupidity with the ridiculous, stuffed by vanity. Let
us leave this step, where there is no more to see other than the most
complete spiritual ignorance.
The next step has a festive ambience, cheerful,
where the arrival of human clones is awaited with uncurbed anxiety and
tender hope. They are the hedonists and slothful, who desire human
clones to perform some unworthy tasks of evolved beings, such as:
work, study, calculate taxes, pay fines, etc. An admirable new world;
where the clones would be very helpful, happy semi-slaves robots with
souls. This group desires free time to “develop creativity” and
usufruct life in sweet idleness. The clones would take care of the
rest, as they would already be very happy for having returned to life
precisely due to the fact of human creativity... Morbid fantasy would
be a well-qualified attenuant for a similar folly. But here too we are
going to abstain from more profound comments, and these very creative
people would certainly also prefer it this way.
Going up a little higher, in search of some ethical
shimmer amongst the defenders of human cloning, we come across a group
of very busy researchers. They are the ones that want to use
stem-cells to reproduce healthy human organs. They affirm, that if
stem-cells are used in the cloned embryo of the patient, the problem
of rejection would be solved at the outset, as the patient would
receive a new formed organ from the patient’s own genetic make-up.
Still before being able to refute this idea, our
attention is attracted to a much higher region of this same plain. At
this higher station there is a dissident line that works
comprehensibly inconvenienced with the perspective of producing
embryos just for this gloomy goal, to soon after simply discarding
them as useless humanoids stooges. These dissidents plan to use
stem-cells extracted from the bone marrow of the patient and, from
there on, try to develop a healthy organ to be used in transplants.
There are two questions here. The first is to know
if the stem-cells are really worthy of assuming the functions of any
human tissue, such as muscles or nerves. Still there is much
controversy about it. Recent studies have thrown a somewhat freezing
bucket of water on this enthusiasm, apparently without much fundament.
The second question is to know if this is the right way to obtain a
real cure of chronic diseases. As usual, the researchers only manage
to discern the merely physical evidence staring them in the face,
being unable to recognize the causes of the countless degenerative
diseases belonging to the soul, cancer inclusive. Naturally there are
many other diseases; in fact, their origins come from harmful ways of
living, such as improper nourishment and pernicious habits, the vice
of smoking being right on top of the list. The problem is, even if
these studies are viable, the developed stem-cells would never will be
able to act in proper cause for either one or the other, they would
never be able to cure illnesses of the soul nor modify the habits of a
erroneous way of life. In both cases, the key for an effective cure of
the diseases is in the ascending movement of the human spirit, what is
required is serious desire and perseverance, scarce qualities
nowadays.
At the mystic flank of this
highly activate step, that is, on the opposite side of where both
teams of the aforementioned cellular researchers act, we find another
well-intentioned and somewhat eccentric group conspiring happily. The
members of this group want nothing more and nothing less than to get a
sample of Jesus’ blood impregnated on the cross, and make his clone.
Could this then be the so-called “second coming of Christ,” so
anxiously waited for by so many followers that would have taken place
through a somewhat bizarre manner, through the unexpected and
providential help of modern science.
It is impossible not to make a reference here again
about human pride, this time present in its highest degree, dwindling
off into infinity. Let us go to the trouble of trying to dissect this
idea. Beforehand, in its hypothesis it is impossible to find a blood
sample of Jesus, and in its absurd supposition that this two thousand
year-old blood sample could supply a plausible cell to be cloned, and
in the illusion that this clone could be transformed into a human
embryo, and still believing that this is developed into a flawless
embryo that could be placed in some chosen womb and give birth to a
normal child, and finally admitting that this child became an adult,
then not even this way can we consider that Jesus has come back.
Who would have returned to
Earth, through reincarnation, would it have been a common human
spirit, embodied in a common physical human body, developed through a
not so miraculous pregnancy. In fact, as they always were and all
human pregnancies will always be: absolutely normal events, in strict
accordance with the laws of nature. The soul that would have embodied
in this earthly cloned body – which would carry the earthly features
of Jesus – would be a common soul, probably overburdened with the
karma and blame like the majority of us, poor human beings. This man
could embrace the many diverse philosophies when grown up, free from
being contested by a legion of Pharisees from the 21st
century. He could be Jewish, Moslem, Buddhist, Hindu, or Agnostic. He
could even be Christian. He could be anything on this Earth, anything,
less Jesus.
Two thousand years ago Jesus
Christ, the Son of God, came down from the highest heavens and
embodied into a physical human body to bring his Word of salvation to
Earth. Only through it is anyone able to save themselves, and only
when the respective person makes an effort in really living
according to this Word, with every fiber of one’s body, that is,
through one’s desires, thoughts, speech and acts. All else is
excessive illusion, fruit of theological reveries of pretentious
interpretations authorized by the Scriptures, which have no other
purpose but foment spiritual indolence with their self-addicting
dogmas.
Indeed we can, and we must carry
out the legitimate cloning of Jesus' Word in our lives. We must live
in such a way that we turn into true clones of this Word. This is the
only cloning capable of bring benefit to humanity, the only ethical
cloning.
(*)
About the crime of the transplants of organs, see
my article “Behind the Transplants” (in two parts).
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