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- From: frank@D012S658.uucp (Frank O'Dwyer)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Let Keep the population down please!!!!!!!
- Date: 23 Nov 1992 14:05:32 GMT
- Organization: Siemens-Nixdorf AG
- Lines: 31
- Message-ID: <1eqofcINNllm@horus.ap.mchp.sni.de>
- References: <1992Nov15.041148.5374@rigel.econ.uga.edu> <1eg0utINN6g0@horus.ap.mchp.sni.de> <lefty-201192180819@lefty.apple.com>
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- In article <lefty-201192180819@lefty.apple.com> lefty@apple.com (Lefty) writes:
- >In article <1eg0utINN6g0@horus.ap.mchp.sni.de>, frank@D012S658.uucp (Frank
- >O'Dwyer) wrote:
- >>
- >> I note that the Christian religions seem to offer salvation as a remedy for
- >> original sin, and the penalty for original sin is not particularly severe.
- >
- >Beg pardon? Eternal damnation, outer darkness, wailing, gnashing of teeth?
- > Not _particularly_ severe?
-
- The way I heard it, it was 'limbo'. Neither heaven nor hell. People who
- believe in transmigration of souls believe essentially the same thing, it
- seems to me.
-
- >> The Church of Reason, on the other hand, offers a new kind of original sin -
- >> a z/e/f is guilty of the crime of non-sentience, a crime for which it is
- >> guilty until proven innocent. And the techno-nihilists are not nearly so
- >> forgiving...
- >
- >Nonsense. Non-sentience is certainly not a crime, but neither is it any
- >particular virtue.
-
- Well it buys you out of personhood, it seems. You just want to punish
- women for having sex.
-
- >Lefty (lefty@apple.com)
- --
- Frank.ODwyer@ap.mchp.sni.de "You take slaves when you make us free,
- when you make us free your way"
- World Party - 'Ain't going to come til I'm ready'
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