X-Message-Number: 31273
From: "Chris Manning" <>
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Subject: Re: The Vatican gets it wrong once again...Arguably on topic
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:01:37 +1100

> Message #31266
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> Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:13:38 EST
> Subject: The Vatican gets it wrong once again...Arguably on topic
>
> Content-Language: en
>
> Hello, Folks,
>
> The moral geniuses who gave you the Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, and
> the proscription against rational use of birth control are at again.  I 
> will
> cut and paste the following, hoping the formatting is fairly  serviceable. 
> But
> I would contend this type of information is on topic for  cryonet.  The 
> type
> of thinking represented by the Vatican is DEFINITELY a  threat to life
> extension AND cryonics.
> Copying follows: By the way, CFI is the "CENTER FOR INQUIRY."  I am a 
> proud
> supporter, and just provided a donation in support of these folks who are 
> at
> the bulwarks of the "culture wars."

[snip]

Oh it's certainly relevant to cryonics since if they are opposed to those 
things then it's a reasonable guess that they would be opposed to cryonics 
as well. I guess cryonics hasn't come to their attention - it doesn't have a 
high enough profile yet - so they just didn't think of including it in their 
list.

Paul Kurtz is a well-known humanist and skeptic who has been around for 
ages. Is the Center for Inquiry the same thing that used to be called CSICOP 
or are they affiliated?

The formatting is fine as long as the reader can work out that 'aC' stands 
for a quote mark and can mentally substutute the latter for the former 
wherever it occurs in the text! 

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