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Financial Resources to Save Lives

There is a very complex issue as to how much we as a society spend in order to prolong life. Some might say that society should spend an unlimited about of money to save a person's life. However, if those same resources were used to pay for medicine for the elderly poor, then more lives could be saved. These issues need to be addressed with wisdom and a sense of social justice. I have a real problem with the fact that society wastes vast amounts of resources in a hopeless battle to keep some people alive when others are allowed to starve to death in economically depressed areas, where it would only take a small amount of resources to sustain them. I also have a problem with the idea that an insurance company should determine the point when death occurs, or that death occurs when the money runs out.

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Newsflash

The God who Wasn't There is a really great film that I highly recommend. I saw an early screening of it at Stanford and I loved it. It goes into the early history of Christianity to determine if the character Jesus ever actually existed. I was surprised to find that much of the Jesus story was already in fiction for hundreds of years before Jesus was supposedly born. This is a documentary of how the Jesus myth was created and how little today's Christians know about the history of their own religion. Here's a really great Trailer for the movie. (18mb Quicktime format)

Most Atheists like myself have generally believed that the story of Jesus was at least based on some real events, some popular preacher that may have really existed and was later turned into a supernatural figure by his followers. But it is becoming clear to me that Jesus is total fiction and the stories are adapted from the fiction of the time. I recommend this film to everyone. It gives you a LOT to think about.