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Dear Bud,

"Using your figure of a billion Catholics, then there must be 970 million 'catholics' using artificial bith control."

Sloppy, sloppy, Bud.

It's likely that several hundred million of these Catholics are children. Probably another hundred or two million are old folks. Several hundred million live in poor countries, many, many without access to contraceptives. The proof is in the still-large families in Third World nations.

Of the remaining few hundred million who live in developed Western countries, we regularly see figures that 10% - 15% of these do NOT practice artificial contraception.

Thus, your judgement of the faith "of the vast majority of [BlackElk's] brethren", that their faith "is as shallow as a bird bath", is nothing but arrogance and rash judgement.

Of course, the saddest part of your post is the implication given by your words, "the vast majority of your brethren", that the world's billion Catholics are not YOUR brethren.


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