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George Smith started a recent column with the popular phrase, "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words...
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Katje van Dijk of Sacramento, CA
Sep 10, 2008 12:42 PM
What are you trying to accomplish with your words, Mr. Smith of South China? You are promoting darkness over lightness, ignorance over knowledge, and you are doing it (arghghghgh) in the name of God. If you have done any homework at all, you would know two things: First, Jesus's words were written down three hundred years after his death by a group of politicians trying to unify the church (so quit spewing lies about him, he doesn't like it) and secondly, look at the statistics on unwed mothers, and teenage abortions in countries where sex education works (like Holland). Their rates of these sad happenings are a fraction of ours. How would you explain that? Knowledge works for some peoples and not for others? You can do a lot with the topic of words hurting the soul, but you took a total wrong turn on this one.report abuse
Barney Google of Gorham, ME
Sep 10, 2008 10:04 AM
"We hope for sexual purity and fulfilled hearts for adults and children but we don't see it ever existing so we publish books like this one. What we have here is not censorship. This is a failure of imagination."

Completely missing from the concept of editing.

"What we have here is a failure to communicate"

Sorry I wasted the last 7 minutes of my life reading/writing this.report abuse

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