>>>Blow it off all you want, 282RA, but "they-ing" is the primary reason people are oppressing each other and killing each other all over the world. Always has been and probably always (at least until everybody kills everybody else off) will be.

Cramming a large part of the world's population into one conveniently labeled pigeonhole is a way of not having to bother to think.<<<

No, I'm not falling for that. I'm not going to qualify my statements that I don't mean this Christian or that because then all of them start think "He doesn't mean me." Yes, I do. Christians have proven they can organize and coordinate their activities so I don't want to hear this "We're not all doing that." Doesn't matter. They're supposed to be Christians, they're supposed to care, they're supposed to be moral. Very well, then, organize a movement to shut down the tobacco companies--put them out of business. No mercy, no exceptions. Do it.

If they want power, they will have it like they never had it before. March in the streets, write articles, pressure politicians, out the ones that do the bidding of these companies and threaten to boot their asses out into the cold without so much as a fig leaf for protection. Go on TV and bitch about what these people are doing. DEMAND the govt release a FULL LIST of EVERYTHING that these executive meth lab operators put in cigarettes (it's currently illegal to release a full list, anyone who does will go to prison) so that people can see what crap is being peddled to them that they are not being told about. Show interviews with the cancer-stricken.

For once, Christians and scientists will be on the same side. Many people will quit smoking once they see what is being done to them. Prosecute the people responsible for the madness, show how much money is saved every year not having to treat so many cancer patients.

To regard abortion as a bigger menace to society than cigarettes reveals a bankrupt morality. But going after the tobacco giants is something Christians of all stripes can unite on.