This general indictment of Christianity as being agricultural, all the garbage of "don't touch there" and such is a very bigoted and stereotyped view of religion as to be offensive. It definitely does not represent my religious views as a Christian. The only point I was making is that the over-reproduction by people that can not afford to support the children is not caused by an agricultural diet. It is caused by lack of impulse control, lack of money to buy simple birth control devices, lack of education about birth control, and lack of motivation to limit family size, and in some cases, social or religious coercion to have large families. Yes, diet plays a role in reproductive rate, but that is not the problem. The problem is dumb choices. Yes, come religions adopted the Grecco-Roman view of the evil-ness of the body, but that is not what Christ taught and it is not a byproduct of agriculture. To classify Christianity as a simple evolutionary offshoot of the invention of agriculture is a gross missunderstanding of Christianity. Religions were not "invented" by people (at least not most of them) but were given by God. R. Keene Richard Keene, Novell Inc, Provo, Utah, 801-861-4389, [log in to unmask]