The Church: Technology and Religion

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The Church Technology and Religion

• Written and Animated By
• Emmaline Elizabeth
• Adriana Aberrant

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Introduction

• For centuries people have looked to their
  religion for guidance and comfort during
  difficulties in their daily life.
• Modern technology has caused some conflicts in
  the way people view the church, also their
  personal definition or feelings toward
  Christianity and other religions.

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• While the increasing cures and solutions from
  technology accelerate rapidly, many people are
  beginning to believe that the need for an
  everlasting and all-knowing being is unnecessary.
• This has led some sociologists to believe that
  this rising interest in technology functions
  somewhat as a religion.
• All this leads to a dispute between scientific
  facts and the teachings and beliefs of many
  religions.

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• There are religious leaders who have come to
  believe that this growing interest in modern
  technology has resurrected the search for
  religion once again.
• Yet there are no explanations for why technology
  and scientific facts convince people to question
  the existence of God or other Supreme beings and
  lead others to believe in the more.

• Many major ethical and religious issues of today
  are combined with scientific experimentation
  technological innovations such as stem cell
  research, genetic engineering, subjects related
  to cloning, medical technologies of
  procreation.
• Vaticans response to these contributions was
  that the international governments to ban these
  disrespectful was that the international
  governments to ban these disrespectful things
  including sperm embryo banks, postmortem,
  insemination, and surrogate motherhood.

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• Last but not least their most well known
  disapproved modern advancement against embryo
  research and abortion.
• One of the most expansive public statements from
  the Catholic Church would be how they saw that
  technology had a negative impact on their view of
  human life and natural conception being sacred.

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• The Vaticans also insisted that the act of
  conception before marriage is wrong.
• The condemnation of artificial conception, the
  Vatican document, relies mainly on its earlier
  constraints against abortion.

• Many Catholics do not agree with their churches
  resistance toward birth control.
• Because of some of the Vaticans opinions and
  responses to modern technologies of fertility,
  has its present congregations to disregard its
  earlier teachings.

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CREDITS

• Information from- Contemporary TechnologyInnovati
  ons, Issues, and Perspectives. By Linda Rae
  Markert and Patricia Ryaby Backer, 2003, Pages
  382-384