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To: null and void
In the middle ages the Pope ruled that jumping from a burning tower wasn't suicide.

The tower doesn't even have to be burning. Lots of twists and turns and exceptions have had to be added since they made suicide a sin hundreds of years after Christ. That was the same meeting where they decided that priests who had taken a vow of vegetarianism had to eat meat broth or be excommunicated, right?

150 posted on 03/15/2006 2:18:14 PM PST by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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To: Gondring
That was the same meeting where they decided that priests who had taken a vow of vegetarianism had to eat meat broth or be excommunicated, right?

I think you are making that part up. Source please?

166 posted on 03/15/2006 4:46:19 PM PST by null and void (Sept 11th: National Moderate Muslim Day of Tacit Approval)
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