Church spreading aids

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Originally posted by John:
..STDs are diseases just like colds, malaria, dysentry, or gangrene....

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Ever read Heinleins "to sail beyond the sunset"?Its got a lovely passage where a doctor rants about the fact that STD`s are the one type of illness we could elliminate if everybody gpt their shit together as they are by definition diseases that are so difficult to contract that they require intercourse to be transmited...Not sure I agree entirely as we did a pretty good job getting rid of smallpox for example and also because STDs such as HIV can be transmitted in other fashions but still an interesting take on the matter....

Pick a BBC report....http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?q=catholic...Any BBC report...

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Originally posted by funkmasterfreaky:
I see where you say it worked in many cultures. I guess if the main goal was to have many children (sons if possible) then it was a sure fire system. However as a family unit it generally did not function well. Though we here in North America can't make a family unit function with just two parents.

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I think you are taking to narrow a view of polygamy Funk, the term includes polyandry (one woman, multiple men) and to my mind also a situation where there are multiples of each sex....You seem to be taking it that polygamy refers to one man multiple wives which is a polygyny, a subset of polygamy....Polyandrys have obvious benefits in a society where women outnumber men, especially in a risky environment as the death of one husband while tragic does not leave a single mother trying to feed her children alone...Come to mention it about every variation on marriage has pros and cons under various situations, polygyny is usefull in a society where there is high attrition of males (and primitive mysogynistic societal mores) as the extra women are married into a family and provided for....

Gene that might carry a little more weight if it weren't written by a filthy, traitor colonial......