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   From: prochoice@here.now   
      
   On 25 May 2004 16:15:30 -0700, rbwinn47@mybluelight.com (Robert B.   
   Winn) in alt.abortion with message-id   
   <7943568.0405251515.7dd29c40@posting.google.com> wrote:   
      
      
   >>   
   >> No weirder than any other religion I suppose.   It's all become weird to me   
   >> over the years.   My grandfather was a methodist minister, so was his   
   >> father, and his father, going back to the time of the Revolutionary War.   
   >> On or my ancestors, John Lawson (1832 - 1897) was one of  the driving forces   
   >> for spreading the Methodist faith throughout Kentucky, W. VA, and Tennessee.   
   >> Yet it all seems like the primatives shaking beads and rattling bones to me.   
   >> Reminds me of the European method for teeth whitening in the 15th Century to   
   >> me.   I want my teeth white, but I'm not willing to gargle in my own urine   
   >> to do it.   LOL!    Religion demands such a departure from logic and   
   >> critical thinking that I couldn't ever bring myself to believe it.   Even as   
   >> a child, I wanted to be like the rest of the family, I made all the social   
   >> noises to keep out of my grandfather's radar, but I never could believe.   
   >> I asked my grandfather questions when I was real young, like 5 and 6 years   
   >> old that he could not answer, or stumbled on the answers.   One day he says,   
   >> "You shouldn't question these things!   You're too smart for your own   
   >> good!".    If a 5 or 6 year old boy could stump a "keeper of the faith" on   
   >> his own religious convictions, then something was terribly wrong.   My   
   >> brother and my sister both go to church fairly regularly, but I can tell   
   >> that they do so out of a sense of loyalty to the family, rather than any   
   >> real religious conviction.   
   >   
   >I think that is just wonderful.  So what do you tell your 5 or 6 year   
   >old grandson when he asks you about abortion?   
      
   It's a medical procedure some women need.  Anything else?   
      
      
   >Robert B. Winn   
      
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