Condoms are the new sin on the block

[Aft3r ImaGe]

http://tinyurl.com/s7ctm

quote:Camino caused controversy on Tuesday when he said condoms "had a place" in fighting the Aids pandemic.

But on Wednesday the Church insisted its position had not changed, and the use of contraception was "immoral".

http://tinyurl.com/ggzuz

quote:Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini said that in couples where one had HIV/Aids, which could pass to the partner, the use of condoms was "a lesser evil".

The Vatican says condoms should never be used, even to stop Aids spreading from one married partner to another.

http://tinyurl.com/cpxla

quote:Pope rejects condoms for Africa

quote: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."

quote:More than 60% of the world's 40m people with HIV live in sub-Saharan Africa.

quote:In South Africa alone, 600-1,000 people are thought to die every day because of Aids.

[Adrenochrome]

Stupid Catholics.

[jsaxton14]

A fundie friend of mine in high school claimed "if god can't break a condom, we're all screwed."

[IanBoyd3]

quote:Originally posted by jsaxton14:

A fundie friend of mine in high school claimed "if god can't break a condom, we're all screwed."

Heh. But don't you mean can, or am I not getting it?

[Fate]

I will never understand the Catholic dogma against birth control. What is the motivation? Wasting "potential" life? What do they think of the sperm and eggs that are never brought together? Every time a woman has her period, is she comitting the murder of unborn, unfertilized eggs, or what? Do they not eat chicken eggs?

What about sex that doesn't naturally result in a pregnacy anyway? Is that a sin? What about people who are sterile?

Don't they realize that there are already too many people on this planet and a wide majority of them don't have it nearly as good as most self-righteous, bible thumping Catholics? Couldn't we focus our energy on that instead?

Stemming the tide of a disease is a sin? Cut me a fucking break.

Jesus fucking christ, I don't get it.

[This message has been edited by Fate (edited 04-22-2006).]

[ohhi]

Not just catholics. All christian religions are against them. Guys lets all stop having sex now ok?

[napoleon_complex]

Condoms won't stop AIDS.

[Rust]

So?

[jsaxton14]

quote:Originally posted by IanBoyd3:



Heh. But don't you mean can, or am I not getting it?

I mean't can't. He was making fun of catholics (he is a lutheran).

[Mike Dogg]

Most Catholics have enough sense to disregard/ignore the "official" teachings on birth control. It's just another example of the pick-and-choose nature of religion.