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Pope Continues To Reject Condoms For Africa AIDS Crisis
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 Speaking to African bishops at the Vatican, the Pope described HIV/Aids in Africa as a "cruel epidemic".
But he told them: "The traditional teaching of the church has proven to be the only failsafe way to prevent the spread of HIV/Aids."
The only thing more cruel than Africa's AIDS epidemic is a bunch of virgins trying to counsel people on sexuality. |
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More than 60% of the world's 40m people with HIV live in sub-Saharan Africa.
In South Africa alone, 600-1,000 people are thought to die every day because of Aids.
Pope Benedict, who was elected to succeed John Paul II in April, has already signalled that he will maintain a strictly traditional line on issues including abortion and homosexuality.
Before being elected pope, Benedict served as head of the Vatican's doctrinal office.
These were his first public comments on the issue of Aids/HIV and contraception since taking office.
It is of great concern that the fabric of African life, its very source of hope and stability, is threatened by divorce, abortion, prostitution, human trafficking and a contraception mentality
Pope Benedict
He was addressing bishops from South Africa, Botswana, Swaziland, Namibia and Lesotho, who had travelled to the Vatican for a routine papal audience.
Some Catholic clergymen have argued that the use of condoms to stem the spread of the disease would be a "lesser of two evils".
The Pope warned that contraception was one of a host of trends contributing to a "breakdown in sexual morality", and church teachings should not be ignored. |
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WTF?
Posted by izzy on 2009-03-27 08:40:07 | | What a f*cking airhead. This is so upsetting to me. Why can't someone just sponsor some condoms? Or the importance of circumcision and cleanliness? Hell, maybe he could even use the church donations to sponsor some AIDs research. |
Can't Judge
Posted by Catherine on 2009-04-27 10:38:07 | | He's just doing right by his commitment to the church teachings as pope. He'd be a hypocrite if he sponsored something that the church doesn't agree with. I agree, the aids crisis is sad, but you can't go condemning someone because they're doing their job. |
Change is needed...
Posted by Acrobat on 2009-04-28 23:11:10 | The Popes current comments are disgusting and only continue to perpetuate the spread of HIV/Aids through developing countries where Catholicism is the primary religion.
Over the years the Catholic Church has had to change to fit with the society they were in, heck, they now allow female Priests, they do not slaughter and burn people at the stake for being heathens, why can they not accept that prophylactics are a necessity in this world to abate the spread of such a deadly virus as HIV/Aids is.
It is about time the Catholic Church stepped up and took their place in protecting their faithful from a long, slow and horrible death. |
"Religion is the Crack Cocaine of Humanity"
Posted by Rainfish on 2009-04-29 03:47:02 | The horrors that are committed in the name of any alleged "god" makes one wonder if there is anything in any religion that is worthy of even the slightest degree of spiritual or emotional investment. Organized religions are either private clubs; political caucuses or lynch mobs. Far too many are simply a curse on humanity.
Someone once told me that it isn't religion that does these things, it's the people. To which I responded: Yeah, that's kind of like the simple-minded mantra of the NRA which moronically claims, "Guns don't kill people, people kill people" -- as if no contributing relationship or association exists. Nope, sorry that wont wash anymore.
Furthermore, religions often provide a twisted justification for violence --they always have. This is especially true when you have people in the Protestant Evangelical Cults; in the Catholic Klan, and in the Muslim Mob who constantly belittle, persecute, and attack the hundreds of millions of Gays and Lesbians in this world. Anything that threatens their limited world view, based on their irrational obsession with superstition, must be controlled, altered or destroyed -- according to them.
I ask all people of |
continued - "Religion is the Crack Cocaine of Humanity"
Posted by Rainfish on 2009-04-29 03:50:40 | | (continued) ...I ask all people of |
continued - "Religion is the Crack Cocaine of Humanity"
Posted by Rainfish2000 on 2009-04-29 03:52:08 | | (continued) ...I ask all people of |
continued - "Religion is the Crack Cocaine of Humanity"
Posted by Rainfish on 2009-04-29 03:55:45 | http://rainfish2000.blogspot.com
Go to that link for the rest of the article...as the essay was cut off in the middle here on this site and it wouldn't allow the other half to post. |
Huh...?
Posted by Morty Fide on 2009-07-14 09:43:50 | | I'm doumbfounded...? WHAT A CROCK OF BULLSHIT!!!! f*ckING HELL YEAH LETS GET THE REST OF AFRICA DISEASED AS IT IS "IMORAL" TO HAVE SEX WITHOUT A CONDOM. So what you're saying pope is god wants all these people to show their love for one another by infecting them with a disease which ensures an eventual very early and horrible death. If god loves me through the bible I'm never touching a bible again now i know what 'love' means to him. |
Can Judge
Posted by Dot on 2009-10-06 22:45:48 | | If the pope stops condemning the use of condoms, the church stops condemning the use of condoms. He's supposed to be the direct link to God. What he says goes. If he wanted to bring the church into the modern scientific era, he could. But the Roman Catholic church tends to be a few hundred years behind the rest of us. |
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