I aim to misbehave....
Posted on 01/25/2012 6:27:40 AM PST by Lazamataz
There is a video circulating Youtube recently that describes a DoD presentation in 2005, in which a researcher proposes a vaccination that immunizes against the VMAT-2 gene, a gene associated with a high level of religious experience. The researcher proposes circulating this vaccination with a virus, like the flu.
It is chilling. Please watch it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=jRg41D8SOq0
Leaving aside the Frankenstein-nature of this discussed proposal, let us remember that evolution expressed this gene, or that God put it there.
There's a reason for it. It could be that the only way an ordered society could work is that people were moral when no one is looking. Morality tends to be very high in those who believe in God. If this gene is destroyed or hampered by science, who knows what sort of world will be created? Amoral creatures, without conscience, all looking out for their selfish interests ONLY, will make for a hell on Earth.
I would predict a total collapse of society and a reversion to a human animal.
These are truly evil people.
Hoax.
IBT “hit it” comments.
Please post the evidence that this is a hoax.
To be worried about this is to insult the Holy Spirit.
There’s no evidence for a ‘God gene’ and the idea of a vaccine against a gene that doesn’t even exist is doubly specious.
The lips look out of sync and the slides looks funny. The lettering doesn’t look like it is the right angle to go with the camera.
I’ve looked into this a lot, and the evidence does point to the a correlation between ‘mystic experiences’ and this gene.
Hoax or not. If God is NOT real... then no problem. We ARE alone in a cold cruel universe doomed to perish and be forgotten, permit us our fantasies... for is not one as good as the other? However, if God is God, desired knowledge and relationship with Him cannot be altered by any vaccine, virus or drug... the big obstacle to God is the corrupt hearts and reprobate minds of humankind, such as this nitwit! I for one shall serve the Lord!
Psalm 14:1: “The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good”.
Part of the “mark of the beast”? When your DNA is changed by this “virus” God can no longer save you becuase you have rejected Him consciously and permanently?? I hope not..
I agree that this would be profoundly evil. Considering the way the brain is wired up, destroying the capacity for a high level of religious experience would also substantially destroy most of our pleasures in life and would lead to staggering rates of suicide. Satan would rejoice, to the extent he is capable; it would be an enormous victory for him.
But it would not destroy faith altogether. Very few of us who are believers ever have a high ongoing level of religious experience. We keep going, keep believing, keep loving God even though we never experience the ecstasies the great saints do.
Having a glorious religious experience is an occasional cookie that regular people (mostly new believers) have sometimes, which God in His mercy vouchsafes people just to assure them that yes, Someone is out there. Day-to-day and year-to-year faith doesn’t depend on dramatic emotions, however. Faith—real faith, active faith—is a series of choices. It is behavior that continues even if we don’t feel God’s presence, even if we don’t want to obey.
Some of the greatest and most faithful of us, like the Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, went through long dark periods when they did not feel God’s presence in their lives at all. Nevertheless, they continued to act in a holy manner, in accordance with what they knew God’s will to be, believing that God was out there somewhere even if they didn’t have the emotional reward of some grand experience.
So yes, this would be a huge wickedness. But God will not be defeated. Not ever.
If there was a “gay gene”, I wonder how people would feel about immunizing against it?
+1
It elevates man above God.
Bring in on, Mr. Evil Scientist. I’ve got a more powerful friend in my corner.
I aim to misbehave....
FAKE. You can see for yourself that the brain sections come from the same individual.
Please provide more evidence.
Please provide more evidence.
Jesus hates you.
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