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Also spracht Melissa <Melissa9Z@Zmho.net>:

> In article <F327DK.n02@world.std.com>, pciszek@otherworld.std.com wrote:

> >That the RCC does a certain amount of tangible good for the poor, sick,
> >orphaned, etc. can be shown.  I have yet to see any evidence that the
> >RCC's most vocal critics do anything.

> Doing tangible good for a population they encourage to breed beyond the
> means  to support it, has a net negative effect. 

   Oh, I see now. So your implication here exactly is what?

   1) By encouraging poor people not to use birth control or have
      abortions, the Roman Catholic Church is encouraging (or as been
      hinted at in this thread, *profiting from*) the misery of
      multitudes of poor people?

   2) The Roman Catholic Church may put it's money where it's mouth is
      regarding helping the sick and poor, but since they encourage
      breeding amongst those darn poor people, they're encouraging a
      cycle of misery?

   3) The Roman Catholic Church bears more responsibility for the
      reproductive habits of it's adherents than, say, other large
      religions that encourage having a lot of children (Orthodox
      Judaism, Islam)?


> It's like if you had a
> sister who was  married and had one child, yet was on poverty. 

   "On poverty"? Do you mean, "on welfare", perhaps?

> So you
> said you'd give her $100  a month for food, but told her; "Go ahead!
> Have more children!" The net effect  is EVEN MORE people in poverty who
> can't possibly be supported.

   In some belief systems, there's a thing called free will where this
hypothetical sister could choose not to have sex (imagine that for a
moment), or would insist that only married couples have children (and put
whatever children they couldn't care for up for adoption where they could
be taken care of). Did it ever occur to you that just maybe, perhaps,
things are not quite as cut and dried as you imagine them to be?

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