🚀 go-pugleaf

a_jabberwock@hotmail.com wrote:
> 
> In article <36604a96.0@news.mho.net>,
>   Melissa9Z@Zmho.net (Melissa) wrote:
> > In article <73om1i$gob@enews1.newsguy.com>,
> >    Roger Williams <rogerw@shell1.tiac.net> wrote:
> 
> > That by "doing good for the poor" and at the same time encouraging even more
> > poor through overpopulation, the net effect is negative.
> 
> And let's see your statistics.

The papal bulls against condoms...

> > I don't know about "profiting from" but they aren't doing the world any good
> by
> > encouraging overpopulation.
> 
> And your proof that overpopulation is bad for the world?

Er...our current environment?

 
> > Yes. They're perpetuating a cycle of misery.
> 
> Thats why India has no overpopulation or misery, no Catholics?

No common sense - cow worship is best left to cattlemen...

> > Oh yeah, right, preaching abstinence works, especially in a patriarchy where
> > it's an insult not to give the husband what he wants. That's why Catholic
> > population has been declining instead of steadily increasing, I suppose. No?
> 
> Actually, it has been increasing at a rate that is lower than India, lower
> than Africa, lower than Asia, so it must be doing some good, right?

Really - how so?
 
> > Did it ever occur to you that just maybe, perhaps, you're acting as an
> > apologist for a theocracy?
> 
> Did it ever occur to you that you are acting as an knee-jerk reactionary for
> an anti-religious liberal agenda?

Let me interject - NO. This from a slaverring capitalist Republidog!
 
> The fact is that the Catholic countries are no worse and probably better at
> caring for their poor and limiting population growth than non-catholic
> countries. The other fact is that you are so fanatically anti-Judaeo-Christian
> that you will never look at any religious issue without bias. Keep hating
> Christians all you want, the only person you are hurting is yourself.

Actually what is up for grabs is the papal decrees against birth control
(how smart is that as we careen to 10 bil pop on the globe?) and the
planetary history of religious oppression and justification for cultural
imperialism. I'm all for prayer in the home or church - just keep it
there. 

You lot scare me when you organize for more than a picnic - even then
the potato salad may be toxic!
 
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