The Christian religion show on cable tv right now is funny...

[Deja Q]

He says there's no population problem. He says women who don't give birth who think they're doing a favor are doing a sin by not making babies...

He claims the US and Europe have low birthrates and this is a problem.

He claims a lot of problems are perceived (true). Such as population, food, et al...

He asks:

* Where will the future physicists come from?
* Where will the future scientists to resolve the food problem come from?
* Where will the future engineers come from?
* Where will the future priests come from?

Hasn't the dude been watchin' television or reading any media?!

INDIA is where all these professions are going to; answering those very questions he was asking. Well, at least 3 of them, they have their own religion; as with their current population, their religion kinda makes the need for us or Christianity irrelevant... Funny how this dude is tapdancing around that point, but fair enough...

(His 2 hour program us about sexuality and the laws of marriage and all that...)

At least he's discussion the 'subvert' problem of divorce...

And how can he blame homosexuals as the root of the breaking down of Christian civilization? Kinda hard to preserve and run a family when there are no professions around that he's talkin' about...

Mods: Please move to which ever forum is most relevant. I thought the program couldn't have been serious at first, but it was...

[BlooInBloo]

1. White heritage people are funny. Religious channels are too...

Two great tastes that taste great together!

[Deja Q]

2. It's interesting to listen to their POV...

and how it makes sense...

...until you look at the wider gamut of society's problems, in which case a lot of their comments fall apart. The problem of offshoring alone (or at least the repercussions of it as we know them to be right now) is clearly doing far more detriment to our society and its families than two grown men using their swizzle sticks in unison...

I'm hoping he, as a Catholic, will address their problem of pedophilia at some point. After all, his whole spiel is about the family and sexuality...


((updated: He has said every individual has rights and should be loved. (hate the sin, love the sinner) and has said several times that to shun people for being gay or whatever is wrong. (wow) Ditto for skin color (also wow). ))

[Deja Q]

3. Kicking, the guy just mentioned corporate corruption and blaming it on the demise of the family!

Father John Corapi is his name...

I wonder what certain corporate figures would have to say if they heard his open dig against them, but that particular line he'd mentioned caught me off guard.

[BlooInBloo]

4. Keep hoping. lol!

[Deja Q]

6. LOL indeed.

I was amazed at where he poked accusations of corruption, which was very much hopeful... but nothing on pedophiles. A pity, but it would have been ultimately recursive back to "love the sinner", et al...

What bothers me is how people always tend to end up blindly sarcastic. Understandable as I've done it too. The difference is, people - all of us - need to listen to other POVs more often. I'm tired of being cynical anyway. Besides, I may as well be a minority on the internet; I've read plenty of posts from plenty of people from one side or another and most love to be stolid in their cynicism.

Unless you're an employee of a company, of course; the manager will not tolerate anything that goes against their self-made "utopia", where everything they do they get. (it doesn't work that way despite their best attempts either...)

[Ilsa]

5. Every time I mention overpopulation on a local forum,

a nutcase goes on and on about Italy. Italy. Okay, maybe I'll move there. But I don't believe there is a birth dearth in the US.

The future physicists and cancer researchers are being killed in Iraq just as easily as they are not being born.

[Deja Q]

7. Italy?

I've no idea what's going on in Italy... and I agree, I don't think there's a problem with the birth rate in the US, or Europe.

And, yes, they are being killed in Iraq when the positions are otherwise being offshored. If the world needs all the physicists it can get, why eliminate even ONE position at all?

[tomreedtoon]

8. Did this "Corrrrappi" guy say we need a bunch of physicists?

What for? What industries would hire Americans for anything?

We should have listened ten years ago when that Japanese prime minister said we are all "lazy and stupid." Guess we were too lazy and stupid to comprehend what he was saying.

Today I saw a guy checking out of a store, taking five minutes to use his check card to pay. It took that long for the clerk to explain to the guy how to use the terminal. The guy kept looking at the cashier's T-shirt and laughing at it. Yep, a Bush voter. And undoubtedly one of those rare American physicists.

[Ilsa]

9. Yes, there is a marriage and birth decline in Italy. The govt might

be paying people to have babies -- I can't remember for certain.