> From: Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Russell Chapman wrote: > > > JDG wrote: > > > >> At 10:32 AM 8/7/2004 +0200 Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote: > >> > >>> When it threatened to decrease the number of flock considerably or > >>> more to the point when contraception started interfering with the > >>> power base of the holy church. > >> > >> > >> Is it so inconceivable that maybe - just maybe - they sincerely believe > >> that God does not want us to engage in contraception? > > > > > > > > Well, yes - if there's no basis for it. > > No scriptures, no tablets handed down from on high. > > > > Do they sincerely believe we shouldn't take vitamins? That we > > shouldn't have remedial surgery. Why is some meddling with the body to > > improve quality of life OK but other meddling not OK? > > Enter 'Jehova's witnesses'. NO MEDDLING with the body. Not even to save
> a childs life or to prevent serious and detrimental health problems > (even in babies and little children) by as simple a thing as vaccination > by oral injestion of vaccin. They really still teach that in Europe? I know they have backed down on most of those here in the U.S. with the exception of blood transfusions. I'm guessing they backed down on those because of the pressure of lawsuits. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
