Religious or not just take a minute, and read this.
I'm not judging or preaching, just pondering. (if you've got a minute read this, if you've got two tell me what you think of it.)
God created us all with a choice, to serve Him or to serve ourselves. True evil in our world comes from the later of the two choices. That is truly what we are here to learn. When you follow the first of all the directives that Jesus put forth, IE: When Jesus was asked " Teacher what is the great commandment in the law?" Jesus said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind." "This is the first and great commandment." Matthew 22:36-38. When we follow this commandment we are bound to do God's will. Within that state of mind there is no doubt, all of our fear, and hatred, and self serving nature is defeated. When true evil manifests it is from these that it is born. When you look to any sin you have committed throughout all of your existence you most probably will come back to one of these. Especially fear. When you keep your mind, your heart, and your soul focused on loving God there is no room for evil.
I believe that the lesson that we are here to learn is just that; Doing YOUR will allows evil to gain a handhold on your life. Doing God's will serves God and evil is defeated.
If God were to remove evil, He would in effect be taking away your choice, your free will. At the very least removing evil would remove any opportunity for us to see the consequences of our actions.
In closing I would just like to point out that as men, and women we may never be able to completely ignore our impulse to take control and go our own way succoming to our base impulses, and fears, it is very difficult to completely surrender your will to God. Those that have are said to reach sainthood. Those that have not are still loved and cherished by God. That is what grace is, only by the grace of God are we saved. Hopefully we can gain faith in our lives, and accept His will, day by day, a little more. Because I believe that the more we do, the less evil will be with us.
If you look at it this way I guess the question would be better served; Why we as the children of God, allow for evil to persist?
F.Michael Sigler
Is GOD Allowing EVIL to PERSIST!
Stop Killing for funding!
It is wrong to use animals for medical research. Just because they don't have the ability to say something about it, it should be right? Why not use the handicapped for experimentation then, or orphaned children too young to speak? No, we couldn't do that because we have a moral responsibility to protect those who can't protect themselves, right?
Then how does it make it OK to put an animal in the same position? Don't we have a moral responsibility to protect animals from cruelty too? Don't get me wrong I'm not a vegetarian, but there are laws regulating how animals are killed for our meat industry, these laws don't apply to the scientists though, for them it's no holes barred.
As far as saving human lives gos, that's a load of crap. How many mice have been injected with cancer, and AIDS so far? It makes little difference to humans if the scientist can cure a rodent with AIDS, they still have to find a group of people to volunteer for study before they know if it works on people, and there is no shortage of people who are willing, if it means a cure. Even if they know it may not mean a cure for them there are people willing to sacrifice themselves to help others down the line. If a person is willing to make that sacrifice then OK experiment away, but you can't just make that decision for anyone or anything. It is simply not our right to decide that another creature be injected with AIDS, and watched while it dies a slow and painful death, just to generate some freaking statistics. "We've concluded after extensive research that nine thousand nine hundred fifty seven mice will die within the first six months after being injected with X. Seven thousand will die after a year, and fifteen are still alive, so we need two million dollars to see if we can get a different result this time." These guys are sick, some spend their entire careers torturing animals, and all they can show for it is a better shampoo, that's just wrong, I don't care who you are it's wrong.
Mark my words, perception is everything: The Nazis thought they would be revered for the advances they brought to medical research, and just as the Nazis were acting in an immoral fashion, people will eventually come to see that this behavior towards animals is unacceptable. We should be held responsible to act in a moral fashion concerning animals.
Scientists need to do something else with their time instead of torturing animals all day to generate statistics. Maybe then they can actually make some advances, after all I'm sure they can't concentrate when there's still so many mice out there that need injecting, and look at all those puppies with no shampoo in their eyes; work work work!
F.Michael Sigler
