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Also spracht Melissa <Melissa9Z@Zmho.net>:

> In article <01be1a84$6a1c5700$a529b4cf@default>, "Flack" <flack@ici.net> wrote:

> >Was there less poverty when there were fewer people on this earth?

> What's that got to do with anything? It was a different age entirely.
> Apples & oranges. 

   Is it? The recurring theme in your posts is that the RCC is culpable
for human misery by encouraging the poor to have children. When you say
that, a question like "Was there less poverty when there were fewer people
on this earth?" is shockingly relevant.

> The fact is that overpopulation causes more poverty. You wanna argue
> with that, argue with the people who publish the statistics.

   And which people, exactly, are these? You haven't got around to naming
them, or pointing to anything definitive with numbers that they've
written. Anecdotally, I seem to recall India and Indonesia as having two
of the fastest growing populations on earth. It may or may not distress
you to know that the RCC has a negligible presence in both countries. It
may also distress you to know that one of the most famous people in India
this century was an Albanian woman named Agnes Bojaxhiu - aka Mother
Theresa, a Catholic nun. Will you additionally argue that the good works
the Missionaries of Charity did in Caluctta was undermined by it being a
Catholic order?

> And the RCC is still stuck 1000 years in the past, and telling people "be 
> fruitful and multiply and populate the earth". 

   Again, it may distress you to know that this mitzvah predates the
existence of the Roman Catholic Church by a few thousand years. However, I
don't see you mentioning how observant Jews are stuck "1,000 years in the
past" (in fact, looking at it your way, it would be far longer than 1,000
years) for observing this mitzvah.

   Put simply, using the command to "Be fruitful and multiply" to
solely condemn the Roman Catholic Church either ignores some very large
world religions, or is remarkably, shall we say, selective on your part.
There's more to poverty and overpopulation than the RCC, even with all
their faults. Your arguments stand on some pretty shaky grounds.

> Well I've got news for the heads of the RCC; YOU CAN STOP NOW!

   I don't think the college of cardinals heard you. Try more SHOUT CAPS.

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