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<DIV><B>From:</B> <A title=kevinfreels@hotmail.com
href="mailto:kevinfreels@hotmail.com">kevinfreels@hotmail.com</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, October 16, 2003 3:13
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<P class=MsoNormal>My wife has actually been fortunate enough to have about
$10,000 worth of surgical procedure paid for by a catholic charity that is
involved with St Mary's hospital here, even though she is an atheist. He
then asked me how that compares with any atheist organization.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2>### 1) Catholic hospitals have all
benefited from a-theist-ic medical science and research. Big time.
</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2>2) For decades atheists (along with
everyone else) in the USA have paid taxes that have gone
to religious organizations, no matter how loony (which organizations
have been given special privileges and exemptions beyond
what most ordinary businesses get).</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2>3) If
the Catholic church didn't need to pay out *millions* in
lawsuits for its black collar crimes division's sexual appetite for
young acolytes, think of how many more people could have benefited
from more charitable $10,000 operations, or think of how medical
research could have benefited from all that money.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2>4) The Catholic church tries -
but doesn't succeed - in maintaining the poverty it so desperately
needs in order to assure it a place in heaven —"How hard it is for
those who have riches to enter the kingdom of God" (Mark 10:23)"— so it
needs to throw some of that money out to the public (how much real estate
and art can an organization acquire before someone says ...? "Okay, enough
already!"). So, you see, when you take money [back, as it
were] from the Catholic church, you are actually doing them a great
favor (but - pssssssssssssssst - they like to call it "charity," as that's
much better from the PR angle; and, these days, the Catholic church needs all
the good PR it can possibly get).###</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2>Olga</FONT></P></DIV>
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