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[Lion Kimbro]

  We hear you, Tom.

  I don't think anyone's said those things haven't happened,
  or that they aren't bad.

  I think we're all in agreement on that.

  Are you feeling not heard?
  (Is that why you and Jeff keep bringing it up?)


On Nov 28, 2007 1:28 PM, Tom Higgins <tomhiggins at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 28, 2007 1:02 PM, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
> <drernie at radicalcentrism.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > Great idea!  Hey, let's eliminate sex while we're at it.  Isn't that*
> > responsible for all sorts of disease, abuse, and violence?
>
> Setting up strawmen does little to relinquish the hold or make things otherwise.
>
> Is it sex or religion that sets out laws making it such that many
> many people do not take care or caution to birth planning but rather
> the words of an invisible sky creature? I have not heard the Pope of
> Sex demonizing contraception to the peoples of nations who are being
> crushed under the weight of their faiths application.
>
> I have not heard the clerics of Sex call for women to be beat or
> stoned becuase they show parts of their bodies in public
>
> I have not seen gangs of armed soldiers in the army of Sex take out
> villagers to stand against walls as they are shot because the
> villagers believed otherly than they.
>
> All these things are things religious authorities  HAVE actually done.
>
> sad sad sad sad not only that it happens, but that other justify it.
>
> -tom(no funny quote here)higgins
>
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