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- From: lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich)
- Subject: Are lightning rods wrong? (was Re: why the schools need to teach about sex: a sad example of ignorance)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.004856.8325@s1.gov>
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- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 00:48:56 GMT
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- In article <tgreen.712431740@pv1788.vincent.iastate.edu> tgreen@iastate.edu (Todd Greenfield) writes:
- >In <nti74do@fido.asd.sgi.com> cj@eno.corp.sgi.com (C J Silverio) writes:
- ::So now you've learned something about sex. Maybe you should
- ::think about your statement above in the light of all this new
- ::information. Maybe you should rephrase, and say something like,
- ::"If you can't live with [pregnancy], don't have intercourse
- ::without using birth control. period."
-
- :I'll accept that. The point I was attempting to make remains the
- :same. If you have sex, you have made your "choice" already.
- :Grow up and be responsible for your own actions. All this
- :individual rights crap gets people to think that they don't
- :have responsibilities, only rights. Buzzt. wrong answer.
-
- And it is wrong to put up lightning rods, because that will
- help you escape the consequences of your sins -- God's sending down a
- lightning bolt.
-
- So said a leading clergyman when Ben Franklin invented the
- lightning rod. He claimed that an earthquake which struck Boston was
- caused by God being frustrated at not being able to punish sinners
- with lightning strikes.
-
- And if you disagree with this reasoning, then what are your
- reasons?
-
- /Loren
-