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In article <3661cb50.0@news.mho.net>,
Melissa <Melissa9Z@Zmho.net> wrote:
>In article <73sebh$5re$10@paperboy.ids.net>,
>   zarlenga@conan.ids.net (Michael Zarlenga) wrote:
>>
>>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?

Gee Melissa you seem to want to have it both ways.  First you want 
them to hear a message and follow it "religeously" then you want 
them to disregard the messages they think they don't like. 

Traditionally, high birth rates were for economic benefit of the 
parents as the children could help raise more food etc, and the
high birth rates were needed to counteract the high death rates.

I suppose that you could say that improvements in medicine and 
medical treatment are really responsible for overpopulation.  If 
we had more famines and pestilance, that would be better.  I suppose
it's all those pesky missionaries, speading health and nutrition, 
reducing the death rate that is at fault for the poverty.

So, these missionaries (RCC and others) that spend money providing 
relief are actually spreading poverty, but if they didn't spend the 
money, then they're at fault for keeping their money and not helping
the people.

I think I'm getting the hang of your way of thinking.  :-)


Chuck Demas
Needham, Mass.


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