X-Message-Number: 29157
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 13:34:53 -0500
From: Keith Henson <>
Subject: Re: the Cryonics gospel

At 10:00 AM 2/17/2007 +0000, un person wrote:

snip (interesting stuff in both postings)

>But a new branch of prosperity gospel
>be born.  And we must create it. God told us that in
>the bible.
>
>For some idea of where I am coming from, google up
>some videos of prosperity gospel, word of faith
>preachers such as joel osteen or robert tilton. Those
>are just two of hundreds.

Times change, but you might want to review this:

"I believe I am the Unitarian minister that Keith Henson said on Cryonet 
was defrocked for advocating cryonics. Actually I wasn't defrocked 
(although that does sound very sexy). I was encouraged to resign by a 
committee of the church I was serving at the time and the only reason 
stated was my advocacy of living forever. "

http://www.cryonics.org/peterc.html

Peter's experience is not unique.  I ran into similar opposition from the 
Unitarians myself, finally concluding the were captured by the "liberal 
guilt" meme.

http://www.alcor.org/cryonics/cryonics8612.txt  And search for "original sin."

Keith Henson

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