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   Re: The WTS and this disaster......   
   06 Sep 05 12:53:36   
   
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   From: one_brow@not.in.an.org   
      
   "Cracklin'"  wrote in message   
   news:431ce994$0$13508$8f2e0ebb@news.shared-secrets.com...   
   >   
   > "One Brow"  wrote in message   
   > news:8q0Te.24739$ih4.17761@fe02.lga...   
   >> "Cracklin'"  wrote in message   
   >> news:431b2caa$0$13508$8f2e0ebb@news.shared-secrets.com...   
   >>>>>   
   >>>> A tornado would be a news-attracting event.   
   >>>   
   >>> ##  So?  What disaster isn't a news-attracting event?  Handing out   
   >>> sandwiches and hot coffee/tea to the homeless at night does not attract   
   >>> the News media and they still do it.   ...   
   >   
   >> With government funding, and not every church.   
   >   
   > $$ The Government doesn't fund the women and men from the churches who do   
   > this.   
   >   
   What do you think "faith-based" initiatives are?   
      
   Further, every donation to these projects is tax-deductible.   
      
   >> I've picked up more   
   >> than one hitchhiker who couldn't get bus fare from the local Trinitarian   
   >> Christians after their car broke down   
   >   
   > $$  And the Watchtower Society now hands out bus fare to people with   
   > broken down cars?   
   I'll go along with the WTBTS being no different from other churches.   
      
   > What does the WTS pay for where the JWs are concerned?  They don't even   
   > get buried by the WTS should they be killed while peddling WTS magazines   
   > door to door.   
   >   
   Exactly how many deaths occur from door-door? LOL.   
      
   >> Some Trinitarians help, some don't.  Some JWs help, some don't.  People   
   >> are still people.   
   >   
   > $$ We're not discussing the people as individuals,... but the churches   
   > themselves.   
   >   
   The churches are made of the groups of people.   
      
   --   
   One Brow   
      
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