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Re: A question to think about......

#2606
From: klaatu
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 00:00
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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"?

Yeesh.

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

> 
> >That's my opinion  - Melissa

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From: klaatu <klaatu@clark.net>
Subject: Re: A question to think about......
Date: 1998/11/30
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