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 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=29157