Sunday, January 6, 2013
Doctor' Alexander's New Reality
Having just read the article " My Proof of Heaven", (Newsweek,
October 15, Page 30) in which Dr. Eban Alexander describes his life-
changing ecstatic experience during seven days in a comatose state due
to meningitis, I am again amazed that an intelligent, informed,
scientifically educated professional can be so in need of reassurance
that there will be an after-life that he could deny the "real
reality" and believe that his experience was a " new reality".
Whether one wants to describe his experience as a dream-like state or
hallucinatory experience is irrelevant. Sorry to say, doctor, you
weren't in heaven that is overseen by the loving god that is supposed
to have created this earth. That same loving god who required that
his only son be tortured and executed so that he might forgive sinners
for the rest of eternity, or the god that also created the ebola virus
and millions of other deadly micro-organisms, ( including the one of
the doctor's meningitis), or to give a variety of malignancies to
little kids, and to watch as the human race that he created
systematically massacres itself in larger and larger numbers. Sorry,
doctor--- when the body dies, there is no brain left to generate
ideas, visions,or emotions ---or any other sensations that you may
have experienced during that week. There is only one reality.
Having just read the article " My Proof of Heaven", (Newsweek,
October 15, Page 30) in which Dr. Eban Alexander describes his life-
changing ecstatic experience during seven days in a comatose state due
to meningitis, I am again amazed that an intelligent, informed,
scientifically educated professional can be so in need of reassurance
that there will be an after-life that he could deny the "real
reality" and believe that his experience was a " new reality".
Whether one wants to describe his experience as a dream-like state or
hallucinatory experience is irrelevant. Sorry to say, doctor, you
weren't in heaven that is overseen by the loving god that is supposed
to have created this earth. That same loving god who required that
his only son be tortured and executed so that he might forgive sinners
for the rest of eternity, or the god that also created the ebola virus
and millions of other deadly micro-organisms, ( including the one of
the doctor's meningitis), or to give a variety of malignancies to
little kids, and to watch as the human race that he created
systematically massacres itself in larger and larger numbers. Sorry,
doctor--- when the body dies, there is no brain left to generate
ideas, visions,or emotions ---or any other sensations that you may
have experienced during that week. There is only one reality.
Billy Graham's Latest Piece of Bad Judgment
The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association's obviously very expensive
" Paid Advertisement" in the Times ( Sunday, October 28, Page A13)
depicts Mr. Graham using grossly bad, anti-constitutional, judgment in
expressing is political preferences , an obvious and flagrant
violation of one of the basic tenets of the United States
Constitution.--namely, the separation of church and state. Certainly
if Mr Graham were presently a pastor of a church congregation, it
would lose its tax-exempt status---and he must know it. Mr. Graham
has made other almost bizarre pubic statements in the not too distant
past. He stated that the puzzling death of Sara Hathaway in Aruba and
the finding of three boys dead in an automobile trunk in Camden, N.J
was " a sign that the end is near ". He also stated for the press
that he had " seen heaven, that it was beautiful---like a family
reunion." In my opinion, Billy Graham should be very high on the list
of those people with zero credibility. As for the paid advertisement--
is this the usual expenditure of an evangelistic and allegedly
philanthropic organization? Mitt Romney visited Mr Graham recently and
had him remove the Mormon Church from his list of religious cults. Was
this advertisement possibly underwritten by the Romney campaign?
Donald Trump's Latest Nonsense
The media has been showing Donald Trump on TV screaming his latest
nonsense-- offering to pay $5,000,000. for President Obama's Harvard
University records and a copy of his passport. ( Congratulations to
The Times for not reporting this outrageous foolishness and helping
him in his attempt to lure votes away from the President in the
coming election.) Is this purely politics, or is it one more example
of what is an obvious psychological phenomena in many macho white
American males---namely the refusal to accept the fact that a black
man can surpass a white man in any place other than the basketball
court or football field? The Times did report that " in John
Sununu's world of racial reductionism , Colin Powell's endorsement
had a more base explanation," ( other than the product of purposeful
deliberation.) "it was a black thing." He also referred to President
Obama as "lazy and disengaged" during the first debate" Even the
quasi-glamorous, hostility-ridden Ann Coulter referred to President
Obama as a " retard" in her latest book. Racism is more obvious among
the more conservative in this country, even if it is more subtly
expressed. They refuse to accept the fact that we have a black
president---it's too much of an ego-deflater.
Alex Caemmerer Jr.M.D,
163 Engle Street,
Englewood, N.J 07631
(201)568-9034
The Hypocricy of the Pro-life Movement
The on-going politically virulent warfare between the Pro-life and Pro-Choice groups in re abortion continues to appear on the front pages of The Times (Abortion Fight: Helping Hands Gain Influence", Saturday, January 5, Front Page) and other publications. The main point of contention appears to be the premise that an embryo is a full living person, and therefore abortion is tantamount to murder. This view is held by conservative religious institutions, especially the Roman Catholic Church, However, nowhere in this article or anywhere else, for that matter, have I ever read that embryos should be baptized like all other people and have Christian burials. Twenty percent of normal pregnancies result in miscarriages, i.e spontaneous abortions ( God's abortions?) The results are routinely thrown in the medical waste. I recall as an intern assisting at a legal abortion before Roe-vs Wade that the nurse, knowing the mother was Roman Catholic, baptized the embryo in the operating room. Why aren't these self-righteous religious groups practicing their Christian beliefs in the case of embryo people? Do embryos have souls and go to heaven, for instance?
Alex Caemmerer Jr. M.D.
163 Engle Street,
Englewood, N.J. 07631
(201)568-9034
(201)784-3581
The on-going politically virulent warfare between the Pro-life and Pro-Choice groups in re abortion continues to appear on the front pages of The Times (Abortion Fight: Helping Hands Gain Influence", Saturday, January 5, Front Page) and other publications. The main point of contention appears to be the premise that an embryo is a full living person, and therefore abortion is tantamount to murder. This view is held by conservative religious institutions, especially the Roman Catholic Church, However, nowhere in this article or anywhere else, for that matter, have I ever read that embryos should be baptized like all other people and have Christian burials. Twenty percent of normal pregnancies result in miscarriages, i.e spontaneous abortions ( God's abortions?) The results are routinely thrown in the medical waste. I recall as an intern assisting at a legal abortion before Roe-vs Wade that the nurse, knowing the mother was Roman Catholic, baptized the embryo in the operating room. Why aren't these self-righteous religious groups practicing their Christian beliefs in the case of embryo people? Do embryos have souls and go to heaven, for instance?
Alex Caemmerer Jr. M.D.
163 Engle Street,
Englewood, N.J. 07631
(201)568-9034
(201)784-3581
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