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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Forwarded message. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Alan Brooks [mailto:alaneugenebrooks52@yahoo.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, December 13, 2012 5:26 PM<br><b>To:</b> spike66@att.net<br><b>Subject:</b> taking remote causation too far<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div id=yiv288118321><div><div><div id="yiv288118321yui_3_7_2_15_1355446507356_45"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>[Spike, please post this]<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv288118321yui_3_7_2_15_1355446507356_55"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv288118321yui_3_7_2_15_1355446507356_56"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>" ...Joseph Christ had not fallen for the Virgin Mary, but<br>rather had given in to the wily seductiveness of that little hottie in the<br>back of the class, the foxy Hortense...?"<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>The S&M connotations of Jesus hanging half naked on the Cross come to mind when thinking of religion and sex.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>What I want to tell for example Christians is how it isn't their religion that is the main contention, it is their politics. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>They are quite erudite concerning the Bible, if not professor-experts then Christians possess the Biblical knowledge of <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Masters degree candidates. Yet their politics are bad, v. bad. They take remote causation way too far:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>for instance abortion; Christians think if abortion were to be outlawed or greatly reduced it would make a difference when<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>in fact it would make .00000000000001 percent of a difference, if that. Asteroids, solar fluctuation, seismic activity, climate disturbances<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> (monsoons, hurricanes, tornadoes, severe cold & heat), perhaps climate change if climate change is valid,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> cancer, war, WMDs, etc. are important.. while abortion is not-- abortion is blown far out of proportion-- often for use as wedge issue--<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>due to emotional excesses of the pro- 'life' and the interest in quick fixes: "if we eliminate abortion" goes the illogic,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>"it will have a moral ripple effect", when the effect is negligible at very best. If only quick fixes were real,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>now wouldn't that be something.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv288118321yui_3_7_2_15_1355446507356_46"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>