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Article #2698Re: A question to think about......
From: Melissa
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 00:00
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 00:00
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In article <36616b97.47517356@vnntp.ma.ultranet.com>, adam.kippes@pobox.com (Adam Kippes) wrote: >In <365f6637.0@news.mho.net>, Melissa9Z@Zmho.net (Melissa) wrote: > >> >Would you blame the RCC for overpopulation in an athiests' commune? > >> I didn't blame them for all of it, obviously, but they're encouraging it in a >> world that doesn't need anymore people. And what about South America, where the >> church dominates every aspect of life? > >The Catholic Church hasn't dominated every aspect of life in South America >for a long time; many of the countries are - and have been - openly >anti-clerical. > >In the largest Latin American country - Brazil - there are allegedly many >more Protestant churchgoers than Catholic ones. > >In any case, what makes you think it would necessarily be the Church's >fault? France is almost entirely Catholic and it has had a very low >birthrate since Napoleon's time. Could it be because the people rarely bathe? :) > And what about Italy and Spain? Neither >has any population explosion; in fact the former is losing people. > >Why don't you knock off the simple minded bigotry and learn about things? Why don't you quit being an apologist for a primitive authoritarian theocracy? That's my opinion - Melissa "It's not easy being cute." - The Warner Brothers' sister Dot. To email me, remove the spam proofing capital letters on each side of the @ in my email address.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 101eb4,52806a22d8c9be3e X-Google-Attributes: gid101eb4,public X-Google-Thread: 1130cb,52806a22d8c9be3e X-Google-Attributes: gid1130cb,public X-Google-Thread: 1073ca,52806a22d8c9be3e X-Google-Attributes: gid1073ca,public X-Google-Thread: 101049,52806a22d8c9be3e X-Google-Attributes: gid101049,public From: Melissa9Z@Zmho.net (Melissa) Subject: Re: A question to think about...... Date: 1998/11/28 Message-ID: <365f73af.0@news.mho.net> X-Deja-AN: 416396840 References: <365D5904.FD059FD3@nh.ultranet.com> <73kjng$j72$1@paperboy.ids.net> <365deb89.0@news.mho.net> <73kvp6$q10$2@paperboy.ids.net> <365f3d7e.0@news.mho.net> <73ng4e$7la$1@paperboy.ids.net> <365f6637.0@news.mho.net> <36616b97.47517356@vnntp.ma.ultranet.com> X-Trace: 27 Nov 1998 20:53:19 -0700, 208.142.169.16 Organization: Dis Newsgroups: ne.general,dc.general,fl.general,co.general