X-Message-Number: 470 Date: 22 Sep 91 10:20:54 EDT From: "John S. Gilliam, M.D." <> Subject: cryonics: #464 - #466 I'd like to respond to Thomas Donaldson and I'm not sure I know how. I'll just outline my reply as follows: Thomas: I grew up in the Baptist Church. I now occasion a Methodist Church. You tend to believe things you were taught as a child. I guess I don't still believe everything they ever taught me, but that's my basic ethical basis in choosing my course (when I have the will to adhere to it). I work around atheists on a regular basis even here in the heart of the Bible Belt. I don't try to convert them by persuasion. I try to live an example that other's might want to ask me about. I don't always achieve it, but it seems an appropriate standard to set your sites toward. I'm just curious what it is you as a cryonicist can't say to me the Christian. Is there some different doctrine of cryonics or ethical justification for cryonics that is appropriate only for atheists? Just wondering. John Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=470