Buddhism And Abortion

STEVE JOBS: Christian leaders give thoughts

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP) - The death of Steve Jobs is a time to reflect on the countless millions, including Christians.

"His impact is hard to overstate - his genius and inventions are ubiquitous," writer / blogger, Ed Stetzer has written a few hours after the death of Apple co-founder of the Wednesday, October 5.

"Earlier today I blogged about the tools and techniques I use Steve Jobs -. impacts my life every day of Steve Jobs has literally changed the world," said Stetzer, vice president of research and Development Department at LifeWay Christian Resources.

Greg Thornbury, dean of the School of Theology and Missions at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee, noted that the coming wave of tributes to Steve Jobs will "rightly lionized for what it was: a creative genius, entrepreneur, visionary and a once-in-a-generation inspiration. "

"I can still vividly remember watching the Super Bowl at Apple now famous '1984 'commercial broadcast.A crowd monochrome Sat stone-faced, motionless, receiving orders from a leader of the totalitarian regime, on a giant screen, when suddenly a girl dressed in red as an Olympic athlete ran up the aisle and launched a hammer which destroyed the screen and disrupted the propaganda machine of "The Business" is using a Mac feel like an act of defiance -. a protest against everything that was wrong, oppressive and broken with the "system", "Thornbury wrote in an Oct. 5 tribute.

"The transition from Steve Jobs comes at a particularly bitter for America.Many people feel like they are back in this scene from 1984, powerless and trapped in a society that is cold and indifferent to them as individuals. For me, Apple's home Wednesday evening that read simply - Steve Jobs: 1955-2011 - felt like the death of Superman.

"But this is America, where heroes are born and proved.

Bad karma in Bangkok: birth control, abortion and Buddhism in ...

In mid-November's neighbors Phai Ngern Chotanaram Buddhist temple in Bangkok complained that a foul odor coming from the temple. The police investigated and found the remains of aborted fetuses in 2002 crammed into a stinking morgue of decadence and disinfectant. Both officers were arrested.

It turned out that some of the factories of Bangkok on abortion was likely to send their remains in the temple so they can be secretly cremated along with dead bodies adult. But a year ago the crematorium broke down.Plastic bags with the fetus continued to arrive in the clinics to the inept crunches ever more closely packed in the vaults foul.

The monks knew little about what was happening in the mortuary, because it was the case of employees of the temple. "The administration of the temple was not aware of fetuses in advance," a spokesman told the media monk. "I can assure you that the monks in the temple here were never aware of this and This was not the intent or purpose of the temple that things happen like that. "

But all of Thailand was horrified.Abortion, except in cases of rape and incest and when the mother's health is in danger, is illegal and devout Buddhists, it is a terrible crime. "Buddhism believes in rebirth and teaches that every human life begins at conception," said Damien McKeown Buddhism experts. "The new being, bearing the karmic identity of a recently deceased individual, is also entitled to the same moral respect as an adult human."

Not surprisingly, therefore, the immediate response of the government was not to reconsider the wisdom of its restrictions on abortion, but to announce a crackdown on illegal clinics. Prime Minister Abhisit regretted the incident, but said that current legislation was "flexible enough".

However, illegal abortion is a huge problem in Thailand, a country of 67 million people. Nobody knows how many occur each year. There about 80,000 legal abortions and possibly more than 300,000 illegal.Dozens of clinics exist in Bangkok, where unmarried pregnant girls and married women who want to limit the size of their families can get fixed up.

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