Nanotechnology Morally Wrong - Seriously, WTF?!?!

somebody needs to stop all this christian on christian violence.

there is no difference in the validity of information received from a preacher or the bible in regards to subjects that cannot be substantiated by empirically reproduced test results. whether or not a congregation is practicing bible study or listening to some preacher preaching preaches is a distraction and distortion of the issue.

the question i have to ask is how many of these people have actually discussed this topic with fellow churchgoers? is it specifically religion causing this, or is it the type of mind to adhere to religion that allows for this sort of terrorized decision making? these people are scared of hell, authorities, their own god, terrorists, and anything else the media and their 'peers' can package nicely enough to appeal to the primal urges that dictate their responses to external stimulation.

sure, maybe religious ideologies are the major factor in their decision to consider nanotechnology 'immoral.' perhaps a woman wondered if god would think it wrong for scientists to toy with miniature technologies, and perhaps the moment before she was just excusing a bad experience by stating to herself that god has a plan for everyone. she can, of course, excuse the prevalence of nanotechnology as a part of 'god's plan' (which, interestingly enough, begins with the beginning and ends with the end), as well as any other alternative outcomes that are in her favor or disfavor.

this really highlights the logical disconnection between the faith people take on and the decisions they make. if nanotechnology prevails, it's in god's plan, but if nanotechnology doesn't prevail it's in god's plan, as well. strangely enough, god's plan is dictated by the supposed 'choices' made with every person's very own stockpile of 'free will,' whose choices are dictated by god's plan (which is dictated by the choices of human beings).

don't misunderstand; i'm not stating that the bible emphasizes any of this, but that this is the sort of ignorance based 'reasoning' being cited as a cause for some ideological alignment.

this doesn't even touch upon the religious moderates, who actually do have some capacity for logical connection of empirical data. for some reason these people tend to be able to decipher an appeal to authority in the form of, say, a preacher expressing his 'opinion' of the bible, but are all too ready to submit to the authority of the bible without any more evidence for its accuracy save for the necessary references to geography and society that help to establish some semblance of similarity between biblical and scholarly history.

the issue here isn't ignorance or religion, but the ideology of submission to an unverifiable authority, be that authority a god, a preacher, or the person himself. simply because people are religious or cite religious beliefs as a factor in their choice of what constitutes morally proper doesn't mean that the religion is to blame. if anything we can all agree that interpretations of religion vary from person to person (which i see as a necessary property of being an observational creature in the universe: we can't all be in the same place in the same mental state with the same encyclopedia of knowledge to categorize and process an experience precisely similarly), and that it's the underlying psychological similarities shared by human beings subjected to similar circumstances that are to blame for the sad state of the collective united states mentality.

I am a born again beliver in Jesus Christ.  I read stories like this and it just makes my blood boil.  If "Christians" would stop and actually use the thing between their ears that God gave them then maybe they could reason a little.  Of course most of these "Christians" don't take the time to read the book that they believe God gave them (instead they rely on a man in a suit to tell them what it says every Sunday [mostly feel good and Jesus will save you and kill all the sinners pre-tribulationist crap].)  These are the same Christians that assume tattoos are evil while wearing their poly blend with cotten shirt. 

I can imagine that I'll get some colorful responses to this comment but at least try to base your response on some kind of reason, and not on misquoted generalizations from the man in the suit with the pretty words.