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mike the wiz
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Message 62 of 106 (201137)
04-22-2005 9:50 AM
Reply to: Message 59 by nator
04-22-2005 9:17 AM


Out of touch could be a screen for "not agreeing with us that sin is good" and thereby following the sinful, by obeying what their sins demand.
Basically, you're asking biblicans to endorse sin, by saying "get with the times".
Human population growth is causing the rapid degradation of the global environment. The Church could go a long way towards helping this problem by
How ironic. You're saying it's the fault of those who are celibate that human population is up? Lol. Maybe if people obeyed the bible, there wouldn't be a problem.
That's fallacious Shraff girly, the real problem is that people are going against what God says, NOT the the fault of those who in this instance, DO as God says.
Oh how typical, "hey celibate Pope dude, it's your fault there's babies, because we can't stop shagging". Oh yeah Shraff, there's a logic in there somewhere, but mikey just can't find it.

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mike the wiz
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Message 67 of 106 (201152)
04-22-2005 10:22 AM
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04-22-2005 10:11 AM


Maybe if more people used birth control, there wouldn't be a problem.
That's the worldly offering ofcourse, but the real solution is always found in God. Obeying the scriptures removes the cause AND stops the problem. That's 2-1 to Yahweh.
Yes, that is ironic, isn't it, that the people who don't bear the children or are responsible for raising them are dictating such edicts to the people who do and are?
Who do they dictate to? Atheists aswell? Why is it only "families" you mention? Or "males"? You mentioned catholic celibate males (pope and such). I wondered why you think it's their sin? They might dictate certain things but they are not the cause of the problem.
More like "not agreeing with them that X is a sin at all."
You don't get to decide what isn't sin. The bible says which is sin, and if anyone disagress it's irrelevant, as there would be no problem if everyone followed what God says to do.
If you lived in an locked house that was meant to house 6 people, but instead it was crammed to the rafters with 60 people that never left for any reason because some of the people's religion said that more people in the house is always better, would you think it was "sinful" to perhaps prevent more people from entering the house?
This is just a stumbling block for mikey.
Why, there wouldn't be 60 in one house if us westerners didn't have a house each.

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mike the wiz
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Message 68 of 106 (201153)
04-22-2005 10:25 AM
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04-22-2005 10:10 AM


Shraff's Knight in shining armour
Too late, mike's omni-eyes read it.
It's okay Charles, you shouldn't have deleted it. Maybe I was a bit mis-representative of what she said. Sorry if I was a bit naughty but Shraff knows I put a certain mikey-spin on things that make them think.
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mike the wiz
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Message 72 of 106 (201160)
04-22-2005 10:41 AM
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04-22-2005 10:28 AM


Re: Shraff's Knight in shining armour
I think she'll apreciate you pouncing to her cause, which is a just effort because Shraff is a goodly one.
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mike the wiz
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Message 77 of 106 (201183)
04-22-2005 11:30 AM
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04-22-2005 10:42 AM


The leadership of the Catholic Church are entirely (supposedly) celibate, (supposedly) straight, forbidden to marry, and male.
(There is no Biblical requirement for them to be any of these things, BTW)
They are dictating behaviors to people regarding issues they are completely divorced from. They cannot relate at all.
Okay, I'll admitt you've convinced me a bit. True, the bible doesn't dictate these things.
I just think those catholic cardinals who genuinely are celibate etc, aren't really guilty of over-population. I just don't think they're to blame on that basis.
Why not, the people who run the Catholic Church certainly do, and they change their minds on what is a sin and what isn't?
What makes them better than me?
They most certainly are not better than you, nor will their pomp or words make them. Please don't think I am for their cause, I just initially thought you were targeting a sect of religious people for this problem. I apologize if I have misconstrued what you meant.
You are correct, that they THINK they decide what sins are etc.. But in reality none of us decide, because what God says is a sin (against his will), is a sin. So, you win that point, in that this "issue" isn't really mentioned biblically so I have to be honest, and admitt that it is almost opinion versus opinion, YET I think God, as ever, can solve the problem and told us what to do in order to not get the problem, by advising our ways, pertaining to life. the fruit of our doings are now what we see prevail. If we don't do it God's way then we receive the reward.
It used to be a sin to belive the earth orbited the sun, remember.
According to them, but as I said earlier, I think only Christ gets to tell us what sin is and I stand by that. We are all sinful according to Christ.
So, if everybody stopped using birth control, would the environmental degradation get better or worse
I wouldn't know. I just thought you were saying that the pope and his men should say "yes, yes, fornicate by all means, but with condoms on".
Can you see how that might make their position a bit odd pertaining to who they're supposed to be? I think me and the catholic are both Christians, and even if we are strongly FOR things or against, we can't play fast and loose with scripture when it suits.
Now if it was up to me, then certain ppl here would go to heaven. IT ISN't = mike's opinion is irrelevant when God decides. It's like when Percy ridded Buz, I sought to say how it was wrong IMHO yet I respected the fact that Percy is the boss and therefore I don't decide what is sin at the site, even if I think I do.

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