> From: Julia Randolph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 05:20:12 -0500, The Fool wrote: > > > 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. > > There's also the issue of immunizations being required by law if > children are going to public school. If you don't immunize your child > without good medical reason, the child cannot enroll in public school. > And it's not as easy to home-school children in some states as it is > in others.
As far as I know, they ended the vaccination nonsense in the U.S. in the late forties / early fifties. I also think they adopted a policy in the 1960's equating organ transplantation as cannibalism, which they slowly abandoned, in the U.S. anyway. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
