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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: TimF who wrote (17061)6/18/2001 4:06:21 PM
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The Catholic Church has not had the power to allow and forbid things for hundreds of years. It can tell you that it thinks they are wrong but no one has to listen. Outside of a few fundamentalist Islamic states no religious organization has that much power any more.

for hundreds of years the church has had no influence?

That is not even vaguely true.

oops , looks like ORCL just reported earnings ..
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