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"Josef Balluch" |
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16 Jan 2005 04:43:44 PM |
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Break Out the Bagpipes |
A group of nuns doing relief work in Southern India refused to provide
food and medicine to villagers unless the villagers first converted to
Christianity.
http://news.newkerala.com/india-news/?action=fullnews&id=60729
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| User: "Robibnikoff" |
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| Title: Re: Break Out the Bagpipes |
16 Jan 2005 05:06:14 PM |
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"Josef Balluch" <josef.balluch@sympatico.can> wrote in message
news:MPG.1c5463c963ed665698999e@206.172.150.13...
A group of nuns doing relief work in Southern India refused to provide
food and medicine to villagers unless the villagers first converted to
Christianity.
http://news.newkerala.com/india-news/?action=fullnews&id=60729
That is beyond disgusting. Words can't adequately describe what I think of
those nuns :P
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| User: "Denis Loubet" |
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16 Jan 2005 06:51:04 PM |
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"Robibnikoff" <witchypoo@broomstick.com> wrote in message
news:34vl83F4gjrsmU1@individual.net...
"Josef Balluch" <josef.balluch@sympatico.can> wrote in message
news:MPG.1c5463c963ed665698999e@206.172.150.13...
A group of nuns doing relief work in Southern India refused to provide
food and medicine to villagers unless the villagers first converted to
Christianity.
http://news.newkerala.com/india-news/?action=fullnews&id=60729
That is beyond disgusting. Words can't adequately describe what I think
of those nuns :P
Compassionate conservatives?
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Denis Loubet
dloubet@io.com
http://www.io.com/~dloubet
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| User: "Christopher A. Lee" |
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16 Jan 2005 11:52:43 PM |
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On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 12:06:14 -0500, "Robibnikoff"
<witchypoo@broomstick.com> wrote:
"Josef Balluch" <josef.balluch@sympatico.can> wrote in message
news:MPG.1c5463c963ed665698999e@206.172.150.13...
A group of nuns doing relief work in Southern India refused to provide
food and medicine to villagers unless the villagers first converted to
Christianity.
http://news.newkerala.com/india-news/?action=fullnews&id=60729
That is beyond disgusting. Words can't adequately describe what I think of
those nuns :P
What is surprising is that Kerala is probably the most religiously
liberal part of India, with approximately 50% Hindu, 25% Catholic and
25% Hindu living amicably together.
It is very unusual behaviour for the nuns.
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| User: "Jos Flachs" |
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17 Jan 2005 02:52:15 AM |
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On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 18:52:43 -0500, Christopher A. Lee
<calee@optonline.net> wrote:
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 12:06:14 -0500, "Robibnikoff"
<witchypoo@broomstick.com> wrote:
"Josef Balluch" <josef.balluch@sympatico.can> wrote in message
news:MPG.1c5463c963ed665698999e@206.172.150.13...
A group of nuns doing relief work in Southern India refused to provide
food and medicine to villagers unless the villagers first converted to
Christianity.
http://news.newkerala.com/india-news/?action=fullnews&id=60729
That is beyond disgusting. Words can't adequately describe what I think of
those nuns :P
What is surprising is that Kerala is probably the most religiously
liberal part of India, with approximately 50% Hindu, 25% Catholic and
25% Hindu living amicably together.
It is very unusual behaviour for the nuns.
As compared to nuns in Burundi?
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| User: "Christopher A. Lee" |
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17 Jan 2005 05:33:53 AM |
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On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 09:52:15 +0700, Jos Flachs
<"wcruise"@ksc15.th.com> wrote:
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 18:52:43 -0500, Christopher A. Lee
<calee@optonline.net> wrote:
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 12:06:14 -0500, "Robibnikoff"
<witchypoo@broomstick.com> wrote:
"Josef Balluch" <josef.balluch@sympatico.can> wrote in message
news:MPG.1c5463c963ed665698999e@206.172.150.13...
A group of nuns doing relief work in Southern India refused to provide
food and medicine to villagers unless the villagers first converted to
Christianity.
http://news.newkerala.com/india-news/?action=fullnews&id=60729
That is beyond disgusting. Words can't adequately describe what I think of
those nuns :P
What is surprising is that Kerala is probably the most religiously
liberal part of India, with approximately 50% Hindu, 25% Catholic and
25% Hindu living amicably together.
It is very unusual behaviour for the nuns.
As compared to nuns in Burundi?
For Kerala - which is normally religiously tolerant.
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| User: "TCS" |
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16 Jan 2005 05:19:29 PM |
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On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 12:06:14 -0500, Robibnikoff <witchypoo@broomstick.com> wrote:
"Josef Balluch" <josef.balluch@sympatico.can> wrote in message
news:MPG.1c5463c963ed665698999e@206.172.150.13...
A group of nuns doing relief work in Southern India refused to provide
food and medicine to villagers unless the villagers first converted to
Christianity.
http://news.newkerala.com/india-news/?action=fullnews&id=60729
That is beyond disgusting. Words can't adequately describe what I think of
those nuns :P
What's the point of wasting food on people going to hell? Nothing about
the nun's behavior directly conflicts with their disgusting religion.
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| User: "johac" |
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17 Jan 2005 06:56:00 AM |
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In article <MPG.1c5463c963ed665698999e@206.172.150.13>,
Josef Balluch <josef.balluch@sympatico.can> wrote:
A group of nuns doing relief work in Southern India refused to provide
food and medicine to villagers unless the villagers first converted to
Christianity.
http://news.newkerala.com/india-news/?action=fullnews&id=60729
Love that old time xtian compassion.
--
John Hachmann aa #1782
Intelligent Design has as much to do with science as reality
television has to do with reality. - Barry Lynn on CNN 12/25/04
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| User: "" |
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17 Jan 2005 03:16:27 PM |
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On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 22:56:00 -0800, johac <jhachm@ixpres.com> wrote:
In article <MPG.1c5463c963ed665698999e@206.172.150.13>,
Josef Balluch <josef.balluch@sympatico.can> wrote:
A group of nuns doing relief work in Southern India refused to provide
food and medicine to villagers unless the villagers first converted to
Christianity.
http://news.newkerala.com/india-news/?action=fullnews&id=60729
Love that old time xtian compassion.
Well, they are just following in the footsteps of jeebus where he
performed the miracle of the loves and fishes. "Then jeebus did say
unto the multitude:'If you wanna eat, you gotta sign your asses over
to me, no, not the donkeys, I'm talkin' souls baby.' Since the crowd
was hungry and disoriented, they did what the guy with the food said."
Actually, the story said that the apostles wanted to send the crowd
away to fend for themselves. Looks like the nuns took that lesson to
heart. If you follow jeebus, you send the desperate away.
--
zamboni #2139
BAAWA Assistant to the Vice-Administrator of Malevolence
EAC Tertiary Adjunct to the Dispenser of Obfuscation.
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| User: "johac" |
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19 Jan 2005 06:26:15 AM |
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In article <t3lnu0dntb41guiuignomocpv4ol7vrh4f@4ax.com>,
wrote:
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 22:56:00 -0800, johac <jhachm@ixpres.com> wrote:
In article <MPG.1c5463c963ed665698999e@206.172.150.13>,
Josef Balluch <josef.balluch@sympatico.can> wrote:
A group of nuns doing relief work in Southern India refused to provide
food and medicine to villagers unless the villagers first converted to
Christianity.
http://news.newkerala.com/india-news/?action=fullnews&id=60729
Love that old time xtian compassion.
Well, they are just following in the footsteps of jeebus where he
performed the miracle of the loves and fishes. "Then jeebus did say
unto the multitude:'If you wanna eat, you gotta sign your asses over
to me, no, not the donkeys, I'm talkin' souls baby.' Since the crowd
was hungry and disoriented, they did what the guy with the food said."
Actually, the story said that the apostles wanted to send the crowd
away to fend for themselves. Looks like the nuns took that lesson to
heart. If you follow jeebus, you send the desperate away.
As they used to say in the Middle ages when famine was common and the
peasants were often starving, "How come you never see a skinny priest?"
--
John Hachmann aa #1782
Intelligent Design has as much to do with science as reality
television has to do with reality. - Barry Lynn on CNN 12/25/04
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| User: "Harry F. Leopold" |
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19 Jan 2005 01:04:09 PM |
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On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 00:26:15 -0600, johac wrote
(in article <jhachm-C31AC6.22261518012005@news.giganews.com>):
In article <t3lnu0dntb41guiuignomocpv4ol7vrh4f@4ax.com>,
zamboni30000@knowshpamatyahoo.com wrote:
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 22:56:00 -0800, johac <jhachm@ixpres.com> wrote:
In article <MPG.1c5463c963ed665698999e@206.172.150.13>,
Josef Balluch <josef.balluch@sympatico.can> wrote:
A group of nuns doing relief work in Southern India refused to provide
food and medicine to villagers unless the villagers first converted to
Christianity.
http://news.newkerala.com/india-news/?action=fullnews&id=60729
Love that old time xtian compassion.
Well, they are just following in the footsteps of jeebus where he
performed the miracle of the loves and fishes. "Then jeebus did say
unto the multitude:'If you wanna eat, you gotta sign your asses over
to me, no, not the donkeys, I'm talkin' souls baby.' Since the crowd
was hungry and disoriented, they did what the guy with the food said."
Actually, the story said that the apostles wanted to send the crowd
away to fend for themselves. Looks like the nuns took that lesson to
heart. If you follow jeebus, you send the desperate away.
As they used to say in the Middle ages when famine was common and the
peasants were often starving, "How come you never see a skinny priest?"
Neither Diane or I can find any confirmation of this story, does anyone have
an actual source for this?
--
Harry F. Leopold
aa #2076
AA/Vet #4
The Prints of Darkness
(remove gene to email)
³It's all very simple : you believe in a god, I don't. Theists first invented
the concept of god or gods, and the sceptical people said : "Huh?". It's been
downhill from there. ;-)³ - Olrik
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| User: "Mike Painter" |
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19 Jan 2005 06:58:55 PM |
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Harry F. Leopold wrote:
As they used to say in the Middle ages when famine was common and the
peasants were often starving, "How come you never see a skinny
priest?"
Neither Diane or I can find any confirmation of this story, does
anyone have an actual source for this?
The show on the History Channel last night about the French Revolution
claimed that the nobility and priests ate well in the years prior to the
revolution when the price of a loaf of bread, the mainstay of their diet
approached a months wages.
Just prior to the revolt in Russia the church owned most of the land in
Russia.
I suspect that the statement or something similar was common.
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| User: "Al Klein" |
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20 Jan 2005 09:11:43 AM |
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On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 18:58:55 GMT, "Mike Painter"
<mddotpainter@sbcglobal.net> said in alt.atheism:
Just prior to the revolt in Russia the church owned most of the land in
Russia.
Like it does today in the US?
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"I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the
type of which we are conscious in ourselves. An individual who should survive his
physical death is also beyond my comprehension,...; such notions are for the fears or
absurd egoism of feeble souls."
- Albert Einstein
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| User: "johac" |
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20 Jan 2005 06:13:35 AM |
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In article <0001HW.BE13B6E90095EB70F02845B0@news.central.cox.net>,
Harry F. Leopold <hleopold@coxyx.net> wrote:
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 00:26:15 -0600, johac wrote
(in article <jhachm-C31AC6.22261518012005@news.giganews.com>):
In article <t3lnu0dntb41guiuignomocpv4ol7vrh4f@4ax.com>,
zamboni30000@knowshpamatyahoo.com wrote:
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 22:56:00 -0800, johac <jhachm@ixpres.com> wrote:
In article <MPG.1c5463c963ed665698999e@206.172.150.13>,
Josef Balluch <josef.balluch@sympatico.can> wrote:
A group of nuns doing relief work in Southern India refused to provide
food and medicine to villagers unless the villagers first converted to
Christianity.
http://news.newkerala.com/india-news/?action=fullnews&id=60729
Love that old time xtian compassion.
Well, they are just following in the footsteps of jeebus where he
performed the miracle of the loves and fishes. "Then jeebus did say
unto the multitude:'If you wanna eat, you gotta sign your asses over
to me, no, not the donkeys, I'm talkin' souls baby.' Since the crowd
was hungry and disoriented, they did what the guy with the food said."
Actually, the story said that the apostles wanted to send the crowd
away to fend for themselves. Looks like the nuns took that lesson to
heart. If you follow jeebus, you send the desperate away.
As they used to say in the Middle ages when famine was common and the
peasants were often starving, "How come you never see a skinny priest?"
Neither Diane or I can find any confirmation of this story, does anyone have
an actual source for this?
I would have to do some research, but I think I read a reference to it
in either Boccaccio's Decameron or Poggio's Facetiae. Probably the
latter since many of the stories in the work were extremely anti
clerical.
--
John Hachmann aa #1782
Intelligent Design has as much to do with science as reality
television has to do with reality. - Barry Lynn on CNN 12/25/04
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| User: "Randy Day" |
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16 Jan 2005 05:35:35 PM |
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Josef Balluch wrote:
A group of nuns doing relief work in Southern India refused to provide
food and medicine to villagers unless the villagers first converted to
Christianity.
http://news.newkerala.com/india-news/?action=fullnews&id=60729
Minor nitpick: the article said 'missionaries',
not 'nuns'.
But, yeah, these people are despicable...
--
R
Atheist Chair,
EAC Disciplinary Committee
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| User: "spakka" |
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16 Jan 2005 05:38:51 PM |
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On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 11:35:35 -0600, Randy Day wrote:
Minor nitpick: the article said 'missionaries',
not 'nuns'.
4th paragraph
But, yeah, these people are despicable...
No argument there...
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| User: "sanguinevikings" |
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16 Jan 2005 06:19:30 PM |
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spakka wrote:
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 11:35:35 -0600, Randy Day wrote:
Minor nitpick: the article said 'missionaries',
not 'nuns'.
4th paragraph
But, yeah, these people are despicable...
No argument there...
Those biscuits. They weren't Death Cookies were they?
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| User: "Douglas Berry" |
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16 Jan 2005 06:39:33 PM |
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On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 11:43:44 -0500, Josef Balluch
<josef.balluch@sympatico.can> drained his beer, leaned back in the
alt.atheism beanbag and drunkenly proclaimed the following
A group of nuns doing relief work in Southern India refused to provide
food and medicine to villagers unless the villagers first converted to
Christianity.
http://news.newkerala.com/india-news/?action=fullnews&id=60729
Shoot them, confiscate their assets, and distribute them to the needy.
--
Douglas E. Berry Do the OBVIOUS thing to send e-mail
Atheist #2147, Atheist Vet #5
"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as
when they do it from religious conviction."
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), Pense'es, #894.
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16 Jan 2005 09:31:09 PM |
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On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 18:39:33 GMT, Douglas Berry
<penguin_boy@mindOBVIOUSspring.com> wrote:
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 11:43:44 -0500, Josef Balluch
<josef.balluch@sympatico.can> drained his beer, leaned back in the
alt.atheism beanbag and drunkenly proclaimed the following
A group of nuns doing relief work in Southern India refused to provide
food and medicine to villagers unless the villagers first converted to
Christianity.
http://news.newkerala.com/india-news/?action=fullnews&id=60729
Shoot them, confiscate their assets, and distribute them to the needy.
Nah, imprison them but let them let them live...if they convert to
Hinduism. Each day offer to feed them if they follow all Hindu rituals
and publicly deny xianity.
--
zamboni #2139
BAAWA Assistant to the Vice-Administrator of Malevolence
EAC Tertiary Adjunct to the Dispenser of Obfuscation.
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| User: "Michelle Malkin" |
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17 Jan 2005 04:44:13 AM |
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<zamboni30000@knowshpamatyahoo.com> wrote in message
news:spmlu0hflcsts613ftco7el06sjquld9da@4ax.com...
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 18:39:33 GMT, Douglas Berry
<penguin_boy@mindOBVIOUSspring.com> wrote:
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 11:43:44 -0500, Josef Balluch
<josef.balluch@sympatico.can> drained his beer, leaned back in the
alt.atheism beanbag and drunkenly proclaimed the following
A group of nuns doing relief work in Southern India refused to provide
food and medicine to villagers unless the villagers first converted to
Christianity.
http://news.newkerala.com/india-news/?action=fullnews&id=60729
Shoot them, confiscate their assets, and distribute them to the needy.
Nah, imprison them but let them let them live...if they convert to
Hinduism. Each day offer to feed them if they follow all Hindu rituals
and publicly deny xianity.
They should be defrocked (degowned?) for such inhumane
treatment of other human beings. Or, are those nuns even to
be considered human beings themselves?
Is this a true story?
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| User: "Eric Gill" |
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17 Jan 2005 03:43:20 PM |
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"Michelle Malkin" <hypatiab7@comcast.net> wrote in
news:ML6dnbDMap4I33bcRVn-pw@comcast.com:
<zamboni30000@knowshpamatyahoo.com> wrote in message
news:spmlu0hflcsts613ftco7el06sjquld9da@4ax.com...
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 18:39:33 GMT, Douglas Berry
<penguin_boy@mindOBVIOUSspring.com> wrote:
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 11:43:44 -0500, Josef Balluch
<josef.balluch@sympatico.can> drained his beer, leaned back in the
alt.atheism beanbag and drunkenly proclaimed the following
A group of nuns doing relief work in Southern India refused to
provide
food and medicine to villagers unless the villagers first converted
to
Christianity.
http://news.newkerala.com/india-news/?action=fullnews&id=60729
Shoot them, confiscate their assets, and distribute them to the
needy.
Nah, imprison them but let them let them live...if they convert to
Hinduism. Each day offer to feed them if they follow all Hindu rituals
and publicly deny xianity.
They should be defrocked (degowned?) for such inhumane
treatment of other human beings. Or, are those nuns even to
be considered human beings themselves?
Is this a true story?
Good question.
If true, I suggest that they be sent to "discuss" the issue with the
fundamentalist Muslim leaders that wanted foreign aid workers thrown out
before they "contaminated" the country.
Should be interesting.
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| User: "Al Klein" |
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17 Jan 2005 01:19:39 AM |
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On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 11:43:44 -0500, Josef Balluch
<josef.balluch@sympatico.can> said in alt.atheism:
A group of nuns doing relief work in Southern India refused to provide
food and medicine to villagers unless the villagers first converted to
Christianity.
Must be some of Sr. Teresa's people. That was HER religion.
--
"A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he
unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand."
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17 Jan 2005 02:08:58 AM |
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On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 11:43:44 -0500, Josef Balluch
<josef.balluch@sympatico.can> wrote:
A group of nuns doing relief work in Southern India refused to provide
food and medicine to villagers unless the villagers first converted to
Christianity.
http://news.newkerala.com/india-news/?action=fullnews&id=60729
The Stone Age is alive and well in 2005.
Can you even imagine an atheist organization letting people starve
to death unless they become non-believers?
Warlord Steve
BAAWA
www.sonic.net/~wooly
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| User: "stoney" |
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20 Jan 2005 03:35:23 PM |
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On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 02:08:58 GMT, Steve Knight <wooly@sonic.net>
wrote:
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 11:43:44 -0500, Josef Balluch
<josef.balluch@sympatico.can> wrote:
A group of nuns doing relief work in Southern India refused to provide
food and medicine to villagers unless the villagers first converted to
Christianity.
http://news.newkerala.com/india-news/?action=fullnews&id=60729
The Stone Age is alive and well in 2005.
Can you even imagine an atheist organization letting people starve
to death unless they become non-believers?
Nope.
--
Contempt of Congress meter reading-offscale.
Hello, theocracy with a fundamentalist US Supreme
Court who will ensure church and state are joined
at the hip like clergy and altar boys.
America 1776-Jan 2001 RIP
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| User: "Dubh Ghall" |
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20 Jan 2005 11:34:15 PM |
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On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 07:35:23 -0800, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 02:08:58 GMT, Steve Knight <wooly@sonic.net>
wrote:
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 11:43:44 -0500, Josef Balluch
<josef.balluch@sympatico.can> wrote:
A group of nuns doing relief work in Southern India refused to provide
food and medicine to villagers unless the villagers first converted to
Christianity.
http://news.newkerala.com/india-news/?action=fullnews&id=60729
The Stone Age is alive and well in 2005.
Can you even imagine an atheist organization letting people starve
to death unless they become non-believers?
Nope.
Don't you just love that xtian compassion?
--
Puck Greenman
The spelling Like any opinion stated here
purely my own
#162 BAAWA Knight.
January 27th
Na bister 500,000
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22 Jan 2005 01:17:25 AM |
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On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 23:34:15 GMT, Dubh Ghall <puck@pooks.hill.fey>
wrote:
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 07:35:23 -0800, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 02:08:58 GMT, Steve Knight <wooly@sonic.net>
wrote:
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 11:43:44 -0500, Josef Balluch
<josef.balluch@sympatico.can> wrote:
A group of nuns doing relief work in Southern India refused to provide
food and medicine to villagers unless the villagers first converted to
Christianity.
http://news.newkerala.com/india-news/?action=fullnews&id=60729
The Stone Age is alive and well in 2005.
Can you even imagine an atheist organization letting people starve
to death unless they become non-believers?
Nope.
Don't you just love that xtian compassion?
In an entirely negative fashion.
--
Contempt of Congress meter reading-offscale.
Hello, theocracy with a fundamentalist US Supreme
Court who will ensure church and state are joined
at the hip like clergy and altar boys.
America 1776-Jan 2001 RIP
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| Title: Re: Break Out the Bagpipes |
20 Jan 2005 03:33:20 PM |
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On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 11:43:44 -0500, Josef Balluch
<josef.balluch@sympatico.can> wrote:
A group of nuns doing relief work in Southern India refused to provide
food and medicine to villagers unless the villagers first converted to
Christianity.
There's that Christian compassion and empathy. Damned Vultures!
http://news.newkerala.com/india-news/?action=fullnews&id=60729
Villagers furious with Christian Missionaries:
[India News]: Samanthapettai, Jan 16 : Rage and fury has gripped this
tsunami-hit tiny Hindu village in India's southern Tamil Nadu after a
group of Christian missionaries allegedly refused them aid for not
agreeing to follow their religion.
Samanthapettai, near the temple town of Madurai, faced near
devastation on the December 26 when massive tidal waves wiped it clean
of homes and lives.
Most of the 200 people here are homeless or displaced , battling to
rebuild lives and locating lost family members besides facing risks of
epidemic,disease and trauma.
Jubilant at seeing the relief trucks loaded with food, clothes and the
much-needed medicines the villagers, many of who have not had a square
meal in days, were shocked when the nuns asked them to convert before
distributing biscuits and water.
Heated arguments broke out as the locals forcibly tried to stop the
relief trucks from leaving. The missionaries, who rushed into their
cars on seeing television reporters and the cameras refusing to
comment on the incident and managed to leave the village.
Disappointed and shocked into disbelief the hapless villagers still
await aid.
"Many NGOs (volunteer groups) are extending help to us but there in
our village the NGO, which was till now helping us is now asking us to
follow the Christian religion. We are staunch followers of Hindu
religion and refused their request. And after that these people with
their aid materials are leaving the village without distributing that
to us," Rajni Kumar, a villager said.
The incident is an exception to concerted charity in a catastrophe
that has left no one untouched.(ANI)
© 2001-2005 New Kerala Media.
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Contempt of Congress meter reading-offscale.
Hello, theocracy with a fundamentalist US Supreme
Court who will ensure church and state are joined
at the hip like clergy and altar boys.
America 1776-Jan 2001 RIP
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