About human cloning

I have been wanting to blog about this topic, after inspired by springsoul's post about human cloning. The thing I want to talk about here is somewhat related to human cloning, but it covers more than that.

Personally, I will neither condemn cloned human (if there is really one), nor despise and discriminate against them, instead, I will just treat them like any another human being conceived as a result of sexual intercourse (which some people say "the natural way"). Really, I see no difference between a human born as a result of testube conception or sexual intercourse. Should we discriminate against clones just because of the way they are conceived? This sounds funny and even ridiculous to me.

Of course, there is another issue, which is that the clones are used as a tool of experiment. It's like the human experiment conducted during 2nd world war by Japan (see here) and Nazi (here). I couldn't agree more with you that this kind of activity should be condemned. Human experiment is truly a terrible, horrible and appalling crime. Here, I believe you know what kind of human experiment I'm referring to, not the sociology, psychology kind of research on human being, but the barbaric, brutal, cruel, vicious and inhuman medical experiments on human being. No matter what the intention is, be it to invent medicine to save people's lives or to help develop new biological or chemical weapon, it is beyond doubt, a serious crime to do such a horrible thing to fellow human being. I believe no one, as a sensible human being would hesitate to condemn this kind of activity.

Now, whenever someone tells me God makes human suffer as a test of faith, it reminds me of the Japan and Nazi human experiments. See what God did (or condoned Satan) to Job in the Old Testament: He destroyed all his livelihood, ravaged his family, tortured him with diseases, the only thing He didnt do was to kill him. Why? Because He was conducting an experiment on Job, He wanted to test to see whether Job could still be faithful to him after the disaster, hence the torture and destruction of Job's life. The difference is, however, that He had already known how the result would turn out to be (since He is omniscient, He knows the past and future) and His experiment was purely a proof to win the bet against Satan.

In fact, Job wasn't the only example, even in today, when some unexplained sufferings occur, like Indonesian tsunami, Burma's cyclone, plane crash, the person you love most died of war, natural catastrophe, diseases etc, Christians tend to say "that is a test of faith from God". What they actually mean is "God is doing an experiment on you", the kind of experiments can range from "killing, torturing or impoverishing the person you love the most to putting diseases on you yourself, destroying your belongings and your family". The purpose of the experiment is not important at all, as I mentioned above, "what the intention is does not justify the horrible crime at all". However, Christians don't regard that as a horrible crime when God does it, they think it is something good, and even worth experiencing.

Ask yourself (if you are Christian) honestly, rationally and objectively, will you say such thing (eg: it is good and worth experiencing) when Nazi or Japanese did these to fellow human like you and I? If not, please, please don't say or give such an abhorrent explanation to people when they suffer. By making this kind of claim or giving this kind of explanation, you're making Japanese or Nazi look like an amateur when compared to what your God does.