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From: aeq@pucc-h (Jeff Sargent)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Alan vs. the One True Way
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Date: Wed, 12-Sep-84 02:08:12 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 12 02:08:12 1984
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From Alan Driscoll:

> Do you want to talk about the suffering of a starving person?  Then look
> at the Christian position on birth control, abortion, and sex education.
> Is it helping or hurting people?  Do you see any compassion in it?  Maybe
> you consider it compassionate to bring more hungry mouths into a starving
> world.  I consider it criminal.

Generalizations....  Just because the Pope says something doesn't mean all
Christians believe it.  I'm the first to agree that the Catholic Church is
hurting millions of people by opposing birth control.  Not only are more
children born into poverty, but (I suspect) the Church, if it is to provide
any charitable support for those extra millions, has to dun its members in
rich countries all the more -- and thus nobody wins.

Abortion is one of those issues I haven't gotten opinionated about.  I will
only say that there is evidence that the fetus, in its later stages at least,
has some degree of conscious awareness.  When this starts, I don't know.

As to sex education:  It's a matter of what is taught in those classes.  If
sex ed classes teach the physical facts and encourage the students to ask
their parents for the moral guidelines, there's nothing wrong with that.  I
personally believe that if they teach that unrestricted sex is O.K., there
is something wrong with that; I don't see how sex outside a context of love
and trust (and even commitment) can be anything but destructive.

-- 
-- Jeff Sargent
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