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Date Posted: 19:30:35 05/16/02 Thu
Author: Icon
Subject: Hmmmm
In reply to: Perceptor II 's message, "Differing interpretations" on 17:23:47 05/16/02 Thu

>I suspect that many of these people would look at the
>institutions you're familiar with and say, "Sure we're
>conservative and proud of it, but that's just plain
>backward!"

Welcome to the heady social whirl of Roman Catholicism! :)

>But how can a change in government change society all that
>much when the voters don't care? Voter apathy is a symptom
>of a widespread attitude that who governs is fairly
>irrelevent. How does a leader effect a society that
>doesn't particularly care that he's nominally in charge?
>There's a lot more to society than laws and regulations.

True, but it's a damn good palce to start, especially when the laws and regulations impact on economics, trade, employment rights, benefits, personal liberty, controlled suubstances and the things which affect even the politically apathetic.

>As far as the activists, you have a point. I suspect
>that'd be more a problem in Parliamentary systems, where
>one party or coalition has control over all branches of
>the government, than here in the U.S., where total control
>by one party is rare and the activists tend to cancel each
>other out.

Sounds like a good way to achieve little :)

>Perhaps here is the root of our disagreement. You say that
>the quote was "directed at men helping women in need". I
>don't believe that the author is specifying a gender to be
>helped. He is only specifying men to do the helping
>because he is writing in a publication specifically
>addressed to Christian men, not to exclude women from that
>responsibility.

Again, the source material wasn't cited in the quote, which possibly led to confision.

>>More than a little.... :) Politics is what women
>>convinced men they were interested in so they'd be out of
>>the way.
>That's a rather patronizing statement...

I know, hence the smiley to indicate it was intended in jest.

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