Politics of space funding

Terrier, you wrote,

"After all the difference between an angel and a demon is not species
but the behavior or 'lifestyle' they have embraced."

If you don't mind, I'll have to use that. It really expresses what I
was thinking. And it sure applies to earth as well!

Jan

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "terrierkeeper"
>
> I suppose it might make interesting Science Fiction. And I think
this
> would border on going 'political' but I think this might do.
>
> I'm hardly one to go New Age with the scriptures as many have but
I
> would suspect that any being that can pass the Standard of I THINK
> THEREFORE I AM would qualify for Christ's affection and kindness
> since such a person's ability would dictate posesion of a soul.
> Afterall, the Ethiopian eunoch was as alien to the Judean world of
> Jesus as one could get yet he was the first gentile convert
followed
> by the Centurian Cornellius. And Jesus did not define the
bounderies
> of the world. He did through Paul pretty much set things down in
> regards to Sin and Sinners. It is not in the body that one finds
> oneself but the way one does with one's body that sets things.
>
> This would also apply to geneticly created beings, creatures such
as
> the Frankenstein monster.
>
> After all the difference between an angel and a demon is not
species