I would like to follow-up on a blog I did ridiculing Pope Benedict for saying that condoms cannot prevent AIDS. It appears that many have taken umbrage at the Pope’s remarks as well as some medical associations and a few governments.
Belgians were so angered at the Pope’s “dangerous” remarks that they passed a legislative action denouncing the Pope’s remarks and ordering their ambassador to the Vatican to deliver a message of protest.
Well, the Vatican is not sitting still for these attacks; they are counter-attacking. Obviously they cannot defend the Pope’s idiotic statement that condoms cannot prevent AIDS. The scientific fact is that if everyone in Africa wore a condom during sex, AIDS would be totally controlled if not eradicated.
So what can the Vatican say in the Pope’s defense? Well they can say that the “Pope will not be intimidated by those wishing to silence him” That his words were taken out of context? How about that what the Pope was really saying is that sexual responsibility through abstinence and monogamy is the only way to fight AIDS.
This reminds me of Sarah Palin advocating sexual abstinence for teenagers while her daughter was screwing her boyfriend right in the governor’s mansion. The boyfriend said Palin knew about it and the daughter said that abstinence does not work and never will; so much for that right-wing bullshit and hypocrisy.
Same goes for the Vatican. If you are so smart and speak for your god, why is he and obviously you, so goddamn dumb that you don’t understand human nature and a specific country’s cultural nature and continue to spout idealistic ideas and concepts that really have nothing to do with earthly reality.
If you really gave a shit about the welfare of people you should do something that may have a chance at actually helping them. Africans have had a certain respect for the “white father” from Rome but after hearing what the Pope said, they just laughed – bye- bye any credibility the Pope may have had.
The Vatican’s anti-condom position for any reason is a very bizarre position. Originally, I think the position was basically against birth-control of any kind and the reason for that was that the Church needs more new Catholics to keep the money flowing so don’t you dare limit your offspring. In the old days you could always tell which family was Catholic; the one with the ten (10) kids. Obviously, Catholics in America got wise and just took the pronouncements from the Vatican with a grain of salt.
My mother, the ultimate Catholic, said abortion is none of the Pope’s goddamn business.
What makes the Vatican’s anti-condom position so bizarre is that if they know how AIDS is spread (we have to assume they do) and the fact that AIDS kills not only adults but children and entire families and knowing that sexual abstinence and monogamy are totally unrealistic and unworkable concepts, why would they not take the path that would undeniably save lives?
This is where the Vatican and for that matter, the formal Catholic religion as lead by the Vatican, is so far removed from humanity and the way the world functions that they are, for all intents and purposes, irrelevant as leaders and teachers of the peoples of this earth.
Belgians were so angered at the Pope’s “dangerous” remarks that they passed a legislative action denouncing the Pope’s remarks and ordering their ambassador to the Vatican to deliver a message of protest.
Well, the Vatican is not sitting still for these attacks; they are counter-attacking. Obviously they cannot defend the Pope’s idiotic statement that condoms cannot prevent AIDS. The scientific fact is that if everyone in Africa wore a condom during sex, AIDS would be totally controlled if not eradicated.
So what can the Vatican say in the Pope’s defense? Well they can say that the “Pope will not be intimidated by those wishing to silence him” That his words were taken out of context? How about that what the Pope was really saying is that sexual responsibility through abstinence and monogamy is the only way to fight AIDS.
This reminds me of Sarah Palin advocating sexual abstinence for teenagers while her daughter was screwing her boyfriend right in the governor’s mansion. The boyfriend said Palin knew about it and the daughter said that abstinence does not work and never will; so much for that right-wing bullshit and hypocrisy.
Same goes for the Vatican. If you are so smart and speak for your god, why is he and obviously you, so goddamn dumb that you don’t understand human nature and a specific country’s cultural nature and continue to spout idealistic ideas and concepts that really have nothing to do with earthly reality.
If you really gave a shit about the welfare of people you should do something that may have a chance at actually helping them. Africans have had a certain respect for the “white father” from Rome but after hearing what the Pope said, they just laughed – bye- bye any credibility the Pope may have had.
The Vatican’s anti-condom position for any reason is a very bizarre position. Originally, I think the position was basically against birth-control of any kind and the reason for that was that the Church needs more new Catholics to keep the money flowing so don’t you dare limit your offspring. In the old days you could always tell which family was Catholic; the one with the ten (10) kids. Obviously, Catholics in America got wise and just took the pronouncements from the Vatican with a grain of salt.
My mother, the ultimate Catholic, said abortion is none of the Pope’s goddamn business.
What makes the Vatican’s anti-condom position so bizarre is that if they know how AIDS is spread (we have to assume they do) and the fact that AIDS kills not only adults but children and entire families and knowing that sexual abstinence and monogamy are totally unrealistic and unworkable concepts, why would they not take the path that would undeniably save lives?
This is where the Vatican and for that matter, the formal Catholic religion as lead by the Vatican, is so far removed from humanity and the way the world functions that they are, for all intents and purposes, irrelevant as leaders and teachers of the peoples of this earth.
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