On this page I provide links to other projects for the cloning of Jesus, and to additional sources of both support and criticism of the concept.
Ye men of Science, why stand ye gazing at your Petri dishes? Why not offer True Believers for the first time in 2,000 years the first and only evidence for the Redeemer, and -- for the first time ever -- the only hope that a prayer could ever be answered? None has ever been answered before. -- Wayne.
Christians for the Cloning of Jesus: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/8611/page2.htm THE SHROUD OF TURIN. Thanks to advances in science we can take DNA samples from the shroud and use them to clone the second coming! This is fantastic, but to stop here would be blasphemy. Friends, we should clone a Jesus for anyone who wants one .
The Second Coming Project: http://clonejesus.com/ The Second Coming Project is a not-for-profit organization devoted to bringing about the Second Coming of Our Lord, Jesus Christ, as prophesied in the Bible, in time for the 2,000th anniversary of his birth. Our intention is to clone Jesus, utilizing techniques pioneered at the Roslin Institute in Scotland, by taking an incorrupt cell from one of the many Holy Relics of Jesus' blood and body that are preserved in churches throughout the world, extracting its DNA, and inserting into an unfertilized human egg (oocyte), through the now-proven biological process called nuclear transfer. The fertilized egg, now the zygote of Jesus Christ, will be implanted into the womb of a young virginal woman (who has volunteered of her own accord), who will then bring the baby Jesus to term in a second Virgin Birth.
If all goes according to plan, the birth will take place on December 25, 2001, thus making Anno Domini 2001 into Anno Domini Novi 1, and all calendrical calculations will begin anew.
The Second Coming Project is soliciting contributions and donations to help us is our quest. Time is short! We must have a fertilized Jesus zygote no later than April of 2001 if Baby Jesus is to come to term on the predicted date. Please send all contributions to . . .
The first human cloning company: http://www.clonaid.com/# RAËL -- the founder of a religious organization called the RAELIAN MOVEMENT which claims that life on earth was created scientifically in laboratories by extraterrestrials whose name (Elohim) is found in the Hebrew Bible and was mistranslated by the word "God", and which also claims that Jesus' resurrection was, in fact, a cloning performed by the Elohim -- announced today that he and a group of investors have set up a company named VALIANT VENTURE LTD which will offer a service called CLONAID® to provide assistance to would be parents willing to have a child cloned from one of them. This service offers a fantastic opportunity to parents with fertility problems or homosexual couples to have a child cloned from one of them. . . .
CLONAID® will charge as low as $200,000 US for its cloning services. The recent cloning of the sheep "Dolly" in Scotland has proven that the technology is now available to complete the operation successfully. . . .
Related sites:
. . . Raelian Revolution (Home page of RAEL): http://www.rael.org/ . . . including the progress of the Embassy which we are building for Extra-terrestrials. As well as this complete international information site . . $7 million has already been collected to build the $20 miilion Embassy . . .
. . . UFO Land: http://www.ufoland.com/ Visit their UFO HQ: the largest building in the world built out of bales of hay -- 5,800 of them!
Human Cloning Foundation: http://www.humancloning.org/ Please donate to fund cloning research. The 501(c)3 nonprofit Human Cloning Foundation has made arrangements with physician and infertility expert Dr. Panos Zavos, to begin funding medical research into using human cloning technology to cure infertility. . . .
"...if the [constitutional] right of privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion into matters so fundamentally affecting a person, as the decision whether to bear or beget a child." -- The Supreme Court of the United States of America
All the Reasons to Clone Human Beings: . . . Religious Freedom - At least two religions, the Raelian Religion and the Summum Religion, believe in cloning as one of their tenets.
Organizations that support human cloning: The Libertarian Political Party, Clone Rights United Front, Stonewall Republicans, the Raelian Religion, the Summum Religion, GayToday.
Clone Rights United Front: http://www.clonerights.com/ The Clone Rights United Front began as a one issue “reproductive rights organization.This credo was spelled out in “The Clone Bill of Rights”:
1. Every person's DNA is his or her personal property. . . .
2. Constitutionally, that right is assigned to neither state legislatures, nor to the federal government, nor to religious authorities. It is "reserved" to each and every citizen, to decide if, how and when to reproduce. . . .
3.Research, not rhetoric, and/or freedom-limiting legal restrictions, is the only way to discover the real effects of cloning. Restrictions on research into cloning of humans should not even be considered unless real social harm can be demonstrated.
Therefore, the fight for the freedom of science is our fight! . . . the freedom of medicine to incorporate scientific findings into its practice is our fight!
Internet Links to Religion: http://acad.cl.uh.edu/hsh/anthropology/soclinks.html Sociology of Religion . . .
. . . Religious Movements Homepage Raelians: http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu//nrms/rael.html Very extensive article.
Lanciano: http://www.religion-cults.com/cloning/lanciano.htm The Eucharistic Miracle of Lanciano. This wondrous Event took place in the 8th century A.D. in the little Church of St. Legontian, as a divine response to a Basilian monk doubt about Jesus' Real Presence in the Eucharist. During Holy Mass, after the two-fold consecration, the host was changed into live Flesh and the wine was changed into live Blood. The Host-Flesh, since 1713 has been reserved in an artistic silver Ostentorium, at the top, and as can be very distinctly observed today, has the same dimensions as the large host used today in the Latin church . . . .
Science has given a sure and exhaustive response concerning the authenticity of the Eucharistic Miracle of Lanciano. . .
E-Mail: J. Domínguez, M.D.
Related site with additional links, by J. Domínguez, M.D.:
cloning Jesus: http://www.religion-cults.com/cloning/ Cloning Jesus?The DNA of God?... DNA of Christians? The Shroud of Turin.
jesus: http://www.religion-cults.com/cloning/jesus.htm The Cloning of Jesus the Christ is impossible. His Second Coming will not be by this Sci-fi way, for the following reasons: . . .
4- What about from the Eucharistic Miracle of Lanciano where there is the Blood and Flesh of Jesus?... Again, no technology present or anticipated can make it... and if ever possible at all it will be just a replica of the physical body of Jesus, not Jesus the Christ, God.
As a Christian, I'd love to see Jesus return. But genetic engineering is not going to accomplish the happy event. . . .
E-Mail: J. Domínguez, M.D.
The Clones are Coming!: http://www.zenzibar.com/Articles/clones.asp Some science, comments, and links, including:
. . . Genetic Savings & Clone: http://www.savingsandclone.com/ . . . Genetic Savings & Clone (GSC) currently has two active divisions: Pets and Livestock. Soon we'll add divisions for Wildlife & Endangered Species, and Assistance & Rescue Dogs. Welcome to GSC — your friendly neighborhood gene bank!
Summum: http://www.summum.org/welcome.htm The Source of All Spiritual Progression
Nowell began to have a series of encounters with highly intelligent beings who he now refers to as the Summa Individuals. He describes them as beings who untiringly work the pathways of spiritual evolution, and who were referred to as the "Neters" in the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. During his encounters, he received instructions concerning the underlying principles (Laws of Nature) which establish and maintain the universe. During these same encounters, the Summa Individuals would change his name to: Summum Bonum (Amon) Ra . . .
Amen founded a non-profit organization, giving it the name "Summum," a Latin term meaning "the sum total of all creation." The principles introduced to him were described as a "neverending story" and form the foundation for the philosophy of Summum. . . .
Urban Myths Cloning Jesus: http://ship-of-fools.com/Myths/08Myth.html . . . The true purpose of the site, which can be found at www.clonejesus.com, is unclear. Yahoo lists it in their religious humour category, alongside the Jesus Fan Club and Jesus Dance websites, but journalists have questioned whether it might be a money-making scam to lure the gullible, or a serious project being pursued by a quasi-scientific group.
The style of writing on the site is deadpan and gives nothing away . . . Our intention is to clone Jesus, utilizing techniques pioneered at the Roslin Institute in Scotland, by taking . . .
The idea of cloning Jesus by using Church relics is not unique to this website. Another site, "Christians for the cloning of Jesus", also uses the same idea, but plays it for laughs . . .
Many of the urban myths we cover in this section of Ship of Fools are relatively easy to debunk, but they are taken with deadly seriousness by groups which often feel their backs are against the wall. Clone Jesus could be a serious piece of mischief – feeding right-wing religious groups with a new horror story, encouraging them to release a new deluge of shrill emails and online petitions.
Or it could be a cynical attempt to found a new "clone Jesus" cult. It would be interesting to know how much money has been sent to that Berkeley address.
Weird-Fake Cloning Stuff: http://www.cedar-falls.k12.ia.us/Buildings/cfhs/Science/hones/Science/Weird%20Cloning%20Stuff The cloning sites that make you think, "Hey! Cloning humans isn't even legal!" If you're interested in the cloning of humans or if you just want a good laugh, these sites are for you!
Insurance Against Virgin Birth: http://www.uvm.edu/~dhowell/Psych95/ClassNotes/Class22/VirginInsurance.html Women sign up to cover risk of a virgin birth.
THREE hundred British women have taken out insurance against having a "Virgin Birth by Act of God" - in expectation of a Second Coming in the year 2000.
The policy, offered by City insurance brokers Goodfellow Rebecca Ingrams Pearson (GRIP), promises to pay out 1 million (pounds) in the event of a virgin birth, in exchange for an annual payment of 100 (pounds). The policy has banked nearly 30,000 (pounds) of premium in the first two weeks of being launched.
Simon Burgess, managing director of GRIP and a former Lloyd's underwriter, said: "Women from 18-year-olds to pensioners have taken out the policy. It is a genuine issue for them. They want a Second Coming to happen - and so they're tempting fate.
The policy was inspired by a recent punchy Church of England advertising campaign that referred to the virgin birth. (You can read about this campaign if you're curious, at the following site: . . .
The women signing up aren't the odd ones around. Soon after, members of a women-only religious sect approached the firm and took out policies. . . .
The authenticity of any claim of "Virgin Birth by Act of God" would be tested by an independent panel of gynaecologists.
Church's poster appeal for priests: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,282286,00.html The Guardian Unlimited. James Meek, Religious Affairs Editor, Monday July 12, 1999. The Guardian.
Extracts:
. . . One poster shows a young male vicar gazing intelligently into the distance from a computerised office inside a church. The caption reads: "This man doesn't have a job. He has a life."
Another shows a young woman smiling down at a child, who is using one of her dog collars to make a play moustache. "Clerical collars make good moustaches," it reads. "They also symbolise a life of challenge, service and deep fulfilment."
Both posters urge parishioners to encourage potential recruits. . . .
. . . A dispute over how Jesus Christ was conceived, supposed to have been settled within the Roman Empire more than 1,500 years ago, returned to split the Church of England yesterday as bishops fought off a rebellion against their version of a key article of faith.
Rebels were angered over the bishops' attempt to assert their translation of the Nicene Creed =- the formula for the nature of Christ -- over a version promoted by the General Synod last year.
The rebels, who were beaten by 308 votes to 104 in their bid to get the bishops' report thrown out, want the Creed to say of Christ made flesh: "by the power of the Holy Spirit he became incarnate of the Virgin Mary". The bishops' version reads "incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary", which the rebels reckon sounds too much as if God and Mary were partners.
There is suspicion among the rebels that the bishops have moved too far to accommodate the Roman Catholic cult of the Virgin.
Spiritual Connection on
the Internet: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/28/national/28RELI.html?todaysheadlines By
MINDY SINK, The New york Times,
28 Dec 02.
For anyone who cannot make the trip to Mission San Xavier del Bac in Arizona to pin a personal memento to a wooden statue of St. Francis Xavier and say a prayer, all that is needed is to jot an e-mail message and hit the "Send" key.
Requesting prayers and joining virtual prayer circles has become commonplace on the Internet, as worshipers can e-mail an order of nuns and request a prayer or enter a chat room and ask whoever reads their message to pray on their behalf. But e-mailing a prayer for the intercession of a saint is new.
At the White Dove of the Desert, as the white-domed mission is commonly known on the Tohono O'odham Indian Reservation outside Tucson, the e-mail prayer requests are confidential. The messages are printed out and then tucked beneath or pinned to the blanket draped across the supine figure of St. Francis Xavier. Eventually, they are destroyed, as dozens arrive each week.
"Is it much different than kneeling next to your bed at night?" asked the Rev. David Gaa, the Franciscan pastor who started the e-mail prayer request box . . . [No, I suppose that it is equally ridiculous and superstitious. Are we still in the Stone Age? Why not worship a nearby stone instead? It would be of equal uselessness. It would exemplify a degradation of the human spirit which would be equally atrocious. On the other hand, I suppose that there is a certain twisted logic to the idea of using virtual mail to pray to a virtual (non-existent) god.]
The Web address is . . . http://www.sanxaviermission.org/Saint.html . . .
e-mail message to the Western Wall in Jerusalem . . . http://www.virtualjerusalem.com/sendaprayer/ . . .
Jesus-God: http://humanists.net/ttbr/NGod.html The truth behind religion. Virtual God Simulator. Rather than pray to a god, why not be one?
Amen
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