Re: Child PC

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (robert)]

 > From: Robert Geary <http://www.ucla.edu/~rgeary>
 > Date: Tue  Jan  5,  8:14pm
 >
 > At 05:41 PM 1/5/99 -0700, Kenneth Freeman wrote:
 > >At 05:55 p.m. 1/4/99 -0800, Robert Geary wrote:
 > >>Really from: Robert Geary <http://www.ucla.edu/~rgeary>
 > >
 > >[Snip[
 > >>applies, because almost all societies lead us to believe that women cannot
 > >>possibly be happy unless they have children (e.g., in the Bible, does
 > >>"childless" ever mean a good thing?).  When Chris said the "primary
 > >
 > >Luke 23:29.  "For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, 
 > >Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which 
 > >never gave suck."  Admittedly an extreme case, 
 > 
 > Brilliant!
 > 
 > >but  then again Jesus' recorded 
 > >miracles don't include making anyone fertile. He was never even approached
 > by 
 > >anyone expressly infertile.
 > 
 > There was the perpetually "bleeding" woman who was healed after touching
 > Jesus' cloak.  I'm sure that her infertility was not the worst of her
 > concerns in that condition, but becoming fertile was a significant benefit
 > of her healing.
 > 
 > Robbie Geary

The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement web site, http://www.vhemt.org,
argues that the Bible says that humans were meant to become extinct.  (I
happen to be a proud childfree "member" (really, volunteer) of VHEMT.  For
more, see one of my web pages at
http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert/politics.shtml.)  This may prove
that the Bible can be interpreted the way you want it or need it to be.