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  • From: "Jerry W. Shepperd" <shepperd AT austincc.edu>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
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  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Worst .... poverty and inequality
  • Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 18:49:01 -0500

Toni,

It is a popular misconception to think that Catholicism causes high birth rates. Rather, the linkage is between poverty and high birth rates. Some poor nations are predominately Catholic and it is easy to think that the poverty is caused by high birth rates which is caused by the fact that a majority of the population is Catholic. But, most of the poor in the world are not Catholic. When one statistically controls for Catholicism in the relationship between poverty and high birth rates, then one finds that being Catholic has almost no impact. One can then see that it is poverty that causes high birth rates, not the other way around.

And, when the income (and education) of Catholics goes up, their use of birth control is similar to that of non-Catholics of the same income and educational levels.

Jerry Shepperd


At 05:48 PM 9/23/04, Toni Hawryluk wrote:
> Presidents from Brazil, Argentina and Chile urged other nations to find ways to narrow the gap between the rich and poor,

Other ways than how ?

All three of these are Catholic *countries* with
maximum-breed/stupid no-birth control/no abortion
policies where the rich don't have to practice
what their "church" *demands* from the poor ....
and even though many of their indigenous peoples
have let some of their own cultures' religions be
melded with Catholic "christianity" (thereby also
letting go any birth-control practices their shamans/
medical witches may have kept alive for centuries)
there are magnificent cathedrals for the rich to
show off in while the shanty-towns multiply the poor ....
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