🚀 go-pugleaf

First, this is OT, but I find it really funny, so I don't mind...

I myself got flamed on my local newsgroup for being too "politically correct", as I said that I 
thought this season's main holiday was a Christian monopoly.

Regarding the Roman Catholic's finances, I'd say that both Nelson and SolarFlare may be right, 
because the individual churches may not have that much money left after they paid out tens of 
millions for all of the sexual abuse lawsuits that were won, and that's a fact.  At least the 
Orthodox church is smarter because they allow marriage before priesthood, which I think lowers 
the potential for abuse because I don't think many people are suited for the stress of 
suppressing their natural desires for their entire life.  On a more humourous note, maybe it 
has something to do with why every Pope is so old...

However, I am not here to promote any specific religion, except to say that I think religions 
can sometimes give stability to some people that need it.

Personally, I believe that 15 words would drastically change the world, and make world peace 
possible, and they have NOTHING to do with any religion.  I challenge everybody to say and mean 
these things:

1.  We are all one.

2.  Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.

And back to the post where this started, I am not surprised in the slightest to learn that the 
Christian church has successfully monopolized these windup laptops, I wonder how much they paid 
to subsidize the project for that to happen???

Cool_X


SolarFlare wrote:
> ..and enough left over to entertain millions of people
> each year at the Vatican. It takes a lot of gold and
> decor to do that.
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> "Nelson Gietz" <ngietz@mts.net> wrote in message
> news:wnZtf.275$Lm6.158@fe06.ams...
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>>"SolarFlare" <sfl.are@hot.mail.invalid> wrote in
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> message
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>>news:9OOdnUz9w8mAySXeRVn-pQ@golden.net...
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>>>WRONG! It's a money making scheme.
>>>
>>>Pass the donation plate?
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>>     Right you are Solar.  Most churches of my
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> acquaintance sometimes
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>>get close to meeting their budget for heat and light,
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> and getting their
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>>roof repaired and paying the pastor.  They sometimes
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> almost get
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>>in the financial black columns, with a yearend bake
> 
> sale or something.
> 
>>    Cheers,
>>    Nelson
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