Monday, January 05, 2004


Grass-Roots Resistance Keeps Third World Out Of The Missionary Position
...A more long-term strategy in the evangelicals' global battle plan can be found in their well-known objection to family planning programs in the Third World. (It's no secret that President Bush, a committed fundamentalist Christian himself, is openly critical of family planning.) According to the report, with their left hand, evangelicals "oppose all family planning programmes," and with their right, they "encourage their converts to have larger families to expand their flock." In Sri Lanka, "Buddhist activists have raised the cry that if this goes on, the offspring of procreating fundamentalists will swamp Buddhists altering Sri Lanka's demography and, in time, destroy its ancient Buddhist civilization."...