Test-tube babies made the news nearly thirty years ago when Louise Brown was delivered by C-section near Manchester, England, on July 25, 1978. According to the BBC news reports at the time of this announcement,
None of the main religions have an official policy on artificial insemination, but the Roman Catholic Church has raised the strongest objection.
The Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh, Cardinal Gordon Gray said: "I have grave misgivings about the possible implications and consequences for the future."
But now, according to reports from an Under the Grace (UTG) spokesman, the birth of the world's first test-tube church has been confirmed in an undisclosed location. The same concerns raised by the Archibishop Gray in 1978 could be repeated verbatim with even more serious tones. Our source at UTG reports on location:
Each element of the service has been carefully thought out and replicated in churches all over the world. We don't want to miss any biblical element. Prayer, giving, Bible-teaching, communion, and fellowship. It's all there. In an artificial sense.
And yet it feels manufactured. It's test-tube church. Everything is there while none of it exists in its substantive form. I feel estranged from the people I'm supposed to call "Brother" and "Sister." We do communion but is it really communion? We have greeting time after announcements but do we really fellowship? Sadly, the longer this goes on the more I feel disconnected from it all. It makes less and less sense.
For the entire story, read Jeff's stirring eye-witness account. Surely our days are numbered.
Very cleaver post! Reporting live, UTG reporter, Jeff.