Donating Blood and Organs a great Sin?

[Kofi]

I have not heard this in Africa but I have heard some people in America and in other western countries make arrangements with science research institutions to use their bodies for science experiments after they are dead and gone.

Some also donate just certain organs in their bodies so that when they die those organs can be used to help save lives. Saving lives is the duty of every Christian, every Muslim, every Jewish, etc. Donating organs such as one of your kidneys while alive can help save lives and donating some of your organs after death can also help save lives. Donating blood can and do help save lives. Some of my Christian friends in Africa especially the Jehovah Witnesses do not donate blood and they do not accept blood even in critical conditions.

A Jehovah witness died in my community in Africa because his parents refused blood transfusion for him although the parents are rich enough to afford the blood transfusion. Not just the Jehovah Witnesses in Africa but all Jehovah Witnesses do not permit blood transfusion because they consider blood transfusion a great sin.

I read it somewhere that Islam is against blood transfusion and organ donation but they still permit it under certain critical conditions. I know Catholics permit blood donation but I don't know whether Catholics permit organ donation. I don't know much about Hinduism and the other religions. I read a touching story on yahoo news a few days ago about a teenage girl whose life was saved by one good Samaritan. The good Samaritan donated one of his kidneys to save the poor girl who needed a match urgently. I don't think God will consider such a generous act a sin but some Christians and other religious people are against organ donation and organ transplant.

Some like the Jehovah Witnesses, are against even blood transfusion. What do you think? Is it a sin to donate blood and organs to save lives?

[Doug]

My goodness I can't believe you have never read the eighteenth commandment of God. Thou shalt not remove/replace organs.
Have you ever considered the covenant god made with the Jews?
If you obey my religion I will be be your god and you will be my people!
To give you an idea of how graceful and thoughtful god is he has given us over 500 religions to chose from.

Enough sarcasm for the moment. What I am trying to say is there is a religion that will permit anything you want to do. There is a religion that will condemn anything you would want to do. To use religion in any way shape or form as a benchmark to justify or condemn is an exercise in futility. To use religion as any kind of standard of measure is absolute insanity. I hate to see such a thoughtful person as you get trapped in this yardstick of religion.

What do you think? Is it a SIN to donate blood and organs to save lives?

I think when we stop equating the will of religion with the will of God we will then be able to give an intelligent and provable evaluation of a question like this.

Conclusion: If I put my faith, trust and hope in religion I would pick a religion that would make me feel good in the thing I desire to do. If my faith, trust and hope was in the word of God I would seek what he has revealed to mankind. If there is no definitive word then I would assume God wanted me to use the brains he gave me to make a judgement for myself. For myself only because I do know I should not be the judge of anyone else. Of course religion has now taken over gods work and become the judge of good and evil.

Oh my aching head. Give me an aspirin. I got a bad religious headache.

[Kofi]

"there is a religion that will permit anything you want to do. There is a religion that will condemn anything you would want to do. To use religion in any way shape or form as a benchmark to justify or condemn is an exercise in futility. To use religion as any kind of standard of measure is absolute insanity" You are right. That is very true. Thank you very much for replying.

The reason why I post some of these questions is because they are very common in Africa, in India and in other developing countries. In America and in other developed countries, most people are educated and religion does not have much influence on the way people think and act in these countries. In other words, people control religion in these developed countries. In developing countries like the poor countries in Africa for example, religion controls the people.

I said in my post that a child died in my community in Africa because his parents refused blood transfusion for him although the parents could afford it. The parents of this child unlike most African parents I know of are rich and educated people but religion still controls them. I don't think a medical doctor in America will allow a child to die just because his parents refused blood transfusion for him but African doctors especially those in my country allow people to die just like that.

There was a video on youtube about an Indian girl born with 8 limbs. Some Indian doctors volunteered to help remove the extra limbs so that the child can have a normal life but some of the local people refused because they believe that child is a reincarnation of the Indian goddess Lakshmi who has several limbs.

Instead of allowing doctors to help save the child, people come from near and far away places to worship the new baby-goddess Lakshmi knowing very well that this child cannot go to school and cannot have normal life with 8 limbs. Religion controls how most of these people think. It is very bad but it is true sometimes religion controls the way I think because of the environment I grew up in.

There are so many religions and so many churches these days and most of them preach and say what they like and at times it becomes very difficult to know which one is saying the truth.

NO and I repeat NO it is not a sin. only extremists consider blood donation a sin. Love your neighbor as you love yourself. Donate blood to save your neighbor's life and God will bless you. JW is an extremist religious group.

Refusing blood transfusion comes not from good faith but from a lack of it.

Hahahahaha, God must truly be amused by idiots that believe that donating blood and organs would be a sin, If there are "sins" then it would be something that no one gains anything from... like murder etc.

God dislike "god-fearing" stupid Christians, Muslims etc. but he laugh at them, as do I... moahahahahahahaa

there is nothing wrong in donating blood to save someone's life. I don't think God put that in the Bible that is if God wrote the Bible in the first.

Jesus never said anything about blood donation. The sabbath was made for man and not man for sabbath. That is what Jesus said. The Bible was given to man and not man to Bible.

I don't believe it is a sin to donate after death. It is an empty shell.

Suppose your child needed an organ to live, and one was available from a person who was no longer living?

Jesus gave all of his blood to save mankind so what is wrong in giving just a little of your blood to save a fellow human being? The Jehovah witness group is a cult.

Jehovah witnesses, Mormorns, are all cults. they aren't true christians. there is nothing wrong with donating blood. donate blood to help save someone else's life.

The sabbath was made for man and not man for sabbath. if you watch your child die because of some quotation you read in the Bible then you are being very stupid.

God doesn't hate it. religion does. God doesn't kill. religion does. God doesn't discriminate. religion does. I can go on and on. Jehovah Witnesses just like Catholics are just a bunch of self-centered hypocrites.