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,
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