| Alterego-X said: Not wearing a condom because the church says so IS a case of "do what the church says". If anyone is having sex with AIDS victims, and spreads it to various other people, while not using a condom because the Pope says so, that individual is only using what the Pope says as poor excuse anyways.
"You can't stop sex"? Probably there are several hundred millions of monogamous couples not using condoms, who are A LOT less likely to get STDs than people who use a condom while having sex with various people, including AIDS infected.
For the record, I don't agree with the Pope about condoms being evil, (amongst various other things), I'm just saying that what the Pope does isn't evil either, he is just trying to communicate a set of ideals, and its not his fault if some retards manage to cherry-pick some of them in the single combination that is the most like to kill them. |
“The truth is not in condoms or clean needles. These are lies, lies perpetrated often for political reasons on the part of public officials…by some health care professionals who believe they have nothing else to offer persons with AIDS…lies told by often well-meaning counselors.”
Cardinal John O’Connor, accusing health care professionals of dishonesty in promoting condoms [“Pope Condemns Bias Against Victims of AIDS,” Washington Post, November 16, 1989].
“Every condom sold sends the buyer to acquire the AIDS virus.”
Fr. Gerald Magera Iga, in a campaign urging condom sellers in Uganda to burn up their stocks [Comtex newswire, January 25, 1999].
“Using a condom to protect oneself against HIV amounts to playing Russian roulette.”
Fr. Jacques Suaudeau, of the Vatican Council for the Family, in the Catholic journalMedicina e Morale [Our Sunday Visitor, Nov. 2, 1997].
“Use of this product is harmful to health.”
Condom warning label suggested by Mexico City Archbishop Norberto Rivera Carrera [La Jornada (Mexico), August 29, 1997].
“[W]idespread and indiscriminate promotion of condoms [is] an immoral and misguided weapon in our battle against HIV-AIDS. …[C]ondoms may even be one of the main reasons for the spread of HIV-AIDS.”
From the text of a statement issued by the bishops of South Africa following their semiannual meeting, where they considered a change in their official condoms policy in response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic [Karen DeYoung, “AIDS challenges religious leaders,”Washington Post, August 13, 2001].
This is just a quick sample of some of the things that people in positions of authority say at the CAtholic church. It's an abuse of athority that has most assuredly caused desease and suffering. People believe what the church says, so they have a responsibility to protect those people. But it's quite clear that they're more concerned with their perverted view of morality than with whether people live. Another example would be how the church is so concerned about the potentially lifesaving HPV vaccine, because the thought that girls might have sex before marriage is far worse than the thought that they might die of cervical cancer.
There are few more shameful organizations in the western world right now.
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