Hi Jeanie

Jeanie: Not following??????????????? I guess cause I don't see things the way you do as I've stated.

That’s probably it. It always feels to me that bible believers only believe bits and pieces. They accept that it’s good to ‘do unto others’ and the like but they don’t think it’s a good idea to stone disobedient children to death at the city gates or sacrifice your virgin daughter as payment for a battle victory yet the bible also contains these ideas. It’s those other messages in the bible, and the bible’s full of them, the ignored messages that I have a problem with and I can’t see how anyone can be comfortable with a book that propagates such horrible, crewel and immoral ideas even if it also has some really good, intelligent, moral ideas in it too. Why not look for a book that leaves out the bad stuff? A book you don’t have to be so selective and apologetic about all the time. And how about looking for a moral guide that is aware of what our world is like today and not 2000+ years out of date?

But we are the ones who have actually destroyed our own earth. I'm not saying we shouldn't take action on a lot of issues, but the implications of population control scare me!

It’s true we are the architects of our own problems though much of that was innocent lack of knowledge and an attitude that said it’s all for us to do with as we will. Where did that idea come from again? But we have the power to solve these problems, maybe not overnight and not painlessly but we can do it if we put our minds to it. But we have road blocks in the forms of great world leaders who are short sighted or who believe that we don’t have to worry about the future of this planet. These people hold great power and they don’t care to try to solve these problems either due to their ideologies or simply for political expediency. Either is a very dangerous approach to dealing with our problems on this planet.

I’m far more scared of the implications of not controlling our population. If we do we risk inequity and a range of other problems that we can probably deal with, if we don’t we face a humanitarian disaster of monumental proportions that we simply can’t deal with. One way leads us to a path fraught with dangers we will have to work hard to resolve the other leads us to dangers we simply can’t solve no matter how hard we try. Which should we chose? It is a case of the lesser of two evils and population control is, IMHO the lesser.

LOL yes I’m an Aussie. How do you spell that so it sounds the way we pronounce it? I’ve never heard an American who can pronounce it correctly. We pronounce it more like ‘Ozzie’ and you seem to pronounce it more like ‘Assie’. Or maybe that’s just me listening to you guy’s through my own accent which actually leans far more towards Pommy than the ‘real’ Aussie twang.

In reason

Russell