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Post by haplotype on Dec 7, 2007 12:28:36 GMT -5
People like Mother Teresa get their money from the Vatican, or whichever world headquarters of their religion. Lay people in Alabama do not care about foreign countries, whatever your point was. In case you doubt me, here's our local newspaper. www.al.com/birminghamnews/It carries no foreign news whatsoever. In daily conversation around here, a "foreigner" refers to someone who was born in Tennessee, Ohio, or Florida. An "intermarriage" refers to a marriage between an Alabama football fan and an Auburn football fan.
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Post by cm on Dec 7, 2007 14:14:58 GMT -5
But a white guy in Thailand? No excuse. Your idea is that men who sleep with prostitutes deserve to contract a terminal, debilitating disease? They are contributing to the problem there. So if they get it, sleeping with a 13 year old girl, then they don't deserve any sympathy, because I doubt they are remorseful about sleeping with underaged girls in the first place.
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Post by juancarlos on Dec 8, 2007 4:04:07 GMT -5
People like Mother Teresa get their money from the Vatican, or whichever world headquarters of their religion. Lay people in Alabama do not care about foreign countries, whatever your point was. In case you doubt me, here's our local newspaper. www.al.com/birminghamnews/It carries no foreign news whatsoever. In daily conversation around here, a "foreigner" refers to someone who was born in Tennessee, Ohio, or Florida. An "intermarriage" refers to a marriage between an Alabama football fan and an Auburn football fan. Hmmm, Alabama religious lay people don't care about foreign countries you said? Well, here's just a sampling of websites of churches in Alabama who do support foreign missionary and charity work (to name a few): www.covenantpcauburn.org/missionsforeign.html#dhouse- support for a Romanian orphanage www.covhsv.org/content/blogcategory/29/54/- support for Samaritan's Purse, a global Christian relief organization which does HIV/AIDS charity, etc. www.decaturbaptist.org/missions/mission_trips.html- Africa mission work www.fbchsv.org/missions/globalmissions.html- mission work in Haiti and Africa
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Post by haplotype on Dec 8, 2007 14:09:00 GMT -5
You proved that 4 churches in Alabama have web sites that mention foreign activity. You did not prove that
1. Lay people at those churches care about the activities. 2. The churches are typical of other churches in Alabama.
I could find web sites about gay Muslims in Kansas, but it does not prove they are typical Kansans. If you're wanting to prove that the average Alabaman is obssessed with AIDS in Thailand, you've got a hard sell.
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Post by juancarlos on Dec 13, 2007 9:13:29 GMT -5
You proved that 4 churches in Alabama have web sites that mention foreign activity. You did not prove that 1. Lay people at those churches care about the activities. 2. The churches are typical of other churches in Alabama. I could find web sites about gay Muslims in Kansas, but it does not prove they are typical Kansans. If you're wanting to prove that the average Alabaman is obssessed with AIDS in Thailand, you've got a hard sell. You claimed in your prior post: "Lay people in Alabama do not care about foreign countries, whatever your point was." All I had to do was come up with at least two lay people from Alabama who care for foreign countries to prove you wrong. That I already did. Case closed. Unless of course, you mean to qualify your statement by saying "Majority or most lay people ..." Since when did we start calling charity for AIDS victims in Thailand an "obssession"?
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