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Also spracht Chris Pollard <cpollard@teal.csn.net>:

> From what I understand China didn't have an overpopulation problem until
> the church arrived.

   No, China (by which I mean the Han Chinese) did have a burgeoning
population long before Christianity made it's relatively tiny footholds in
China. China "dealt with" overpopulation the same way it has for millennia
- war, famine, and floods. Modern day China has had to introduce
artificial population control measures to guard against large scale plague
and famine, but the "one family, one child" rule is relatively new to
China.

   Now, one wonders what Melissa would attribute India and Indonesia's
dramatically increasing population numbers on? Hinduism and Islam? And
what about on the West Bank, where the *average* child bearing woman has
over 7 children during her lifetime?

   Boy, that Roman Catholic church is so powerful and sneaky, it has the
power to encourage overpopulation amongst people who aren't even
Christians.

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