🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 30 Nov 1998 18:03:30 -0500, klaatu <klaatu@clark.net> wrote:

>guess away wrote:
>> 
>> On Sun, 29 Nov 98 22:28:57 GMT, Melissa9Z@Zmho.net (Melissa) wrote:
>> 
>> >In article <73sebh$5re$10@paperboy.ids.net>,
>> >   zarlenga@conan.ids.net (Michael Zarlenga) wrote:
>> >>Melissa (Melissa9Z@Zmho.net) wrote:
>> >>: In article <73rq1j$c3j$2@paperboy.ids.net>,
>> >>:    zarlenga@conan.ids.net (Michael Zarlenga) wrote:
>> >>: >Melissa (Melissa9Z@Zmho.net) wrote:
>> >>: >: Look, questioning authoritarianism doesn't make anyone a bigot, and yes
>> >the
>> >>: >: Catholic church still opposes all modern forms of birth control and tells
>> >>: >: people to "be fruitful and multiply" so they can gain political power
>> >>: through
>> >>: >
>> >>: >The Catholic Church condemns sex outside marriage.
>> >>: >
>> >>: >Be fruitful and multiply is within the confines of a marriage.
>> >>: >
>> >>: >You forgot to mention that.
>> >>
>> >>: Because anyone who knows squat about the RCC would already know that.
>> >>
>> >>Ok, so, tell us ... what percentage of the world's poor - you know,
>> >>the people you claim are so intimately influenced by the Catholic
>> >>Church's "be fruitful and multiply? message - are born in wedlock?
>> >>
>> >>Must be damn close to 100%, hunh, if the Catholic Church's messages
>> >>are to blame.
>> >
>> >Well Catholics aren't perfect either. Ever heard of the term "cafeteria
>> >Catholic"? Someone who picks & chooses what they'll follow. So they could be
>> >kept totally ignorant of modern birth control methods ( because the church
>> >tells them that ) and be having babies in, and out of wedlock, who the heck
>> >knows?
>> 
>> Now you're just grasping at straws. :)
>> 
>> The RCC isn't my religion of choice, but I don'r rhink it is the cause
>> for all things bad in the world. Overpopulation is the result of too
>> many people and not enough predation in the system. People like to
>> have sex, and the direct result of that unless you make birth control
>> or abortion mandatory is that the population is going to explode.
>> 
>> I predict that in the next 20 years, China will stop being so polite
>> about its expansionist policies and will start the next major war,
>> perhaps the 'Big One' unless they start enforcing totalitarian
>> measures for population control.
>
>YOu blithering twit, for almost fifteen years _they have_ been enforcing
>totalitarian population control. Never heard of "One Couple, One Child"?

Yes, and I heard that the method they had chosen of taxation was
working quite horridly.

You can bugger off if all you have to offer is hurling insults. :)

>Yeesh.
>
>Read the news for a decade before you start posting again, okay?

Read above. Been there, done that.