The Roman Catholic Church is supposed to announce a new pastoral care letter in which it will supposedly state that to some degree condoms used to prevent the spread of AIDS are a "lesser evil". Lesser than what? Letting thirty million people become infected and die while having insisted for years now that 'abstinence only' was the answer? Apparently, there is some recognition at the Vatican that the medical communities concern that an 'abstinence only' program may indeed be insufficient to turn the tide and save lives just might be valid.
Isn't this just grand! Should we fall over in thanksgving and praise this bunch of withered old sexless men in Rome who have finally decreed that in some very rare circumstances saving a life just might take precedence over their moral attribution that condom use is an affront to God?! Wow. Clap your hands if you believe in miracles. (Don't expect it to include same sex usage.)
Bullshit politics again.
First of all - it hasn't been announced by the Church, only leaked by an Italian paper on friendly terms with the Vatican. So, don't hold your breath for anything just yet.
Secondly, even if they issue a modest directive that in a very few instances you won't be committing a grave moral sin protecting someone's life from an incurable and fatal disease by suggesting they use a condom if they are having sexual intercourse it will surely fall far short of fully directing all third world countries to make haste to promote the use of condoms and insisting that all medical and scientific means available be used to end this completely preventable disease from killing millions more of the people of God.
And, it is my heartfelt belief that this seeming act of compassion is not one at all, but rather the belated and far from sufficient response to a slowly dawning realization for Rome that if they allow their new financial and political bases, i.e. the Third World, to die off completely that they will have NO support whatsoever for their antiquated morality tales, either financial or political. (Remember, Europe and the West woke up a while ago to the total lack of Chritian compassion that the Church pontificates in these matters.) After all, to run a business like the Church you definitely need to keep the suckers who ARE paying you alive and healthy enough to keep paying you - and to keep voting for the oppressive religious regimes which keep supporters of such bishops of the Church in power.
Eventually, God willing, education and science will be realized amongst these nations and replace the superstious practices and beliefs which enshrine a deity who loves people only if they are constantly terrified of hell fire and damnation - because, for goodness sakes, the loving God of the New Testament is simply an idealistic and transitory super credulous belief - an omnipotent creator who cannot love a sinner, not really, or forgive anyone anything, not really.
The REAL guy upstairs is the "tooth for a tooth" O.T. guy - so, don't touch yourself or know anything about your body or sex or disease prevention, don't be responsible for your health and the health of others except to say, well, if you get that faggot disease you probably deserved it anyway.
Negative? You bet. And I will be until this pope and his hierarchy do a 360 degree turn about on human sexuality being the greatest of sins. It isn't - forgetting to love God's children and protect them is the sin that will destroy our souls.
In case you're not Catholic and you can't fathom why condom use is a sin of the greatest magnitude in the first place let me enlighten you. A (heterosexual) person who chooses to use a condom disallows God the choice of bringing a new life into the world via your fucking. Of course, at the same time, these Church men will insist, while attempting to prove their point reagrding abstinence, that a condom is not full protection from disease because of its very high failure rate. May I ask if the failure rate is so high how is our omnipotent God prevented from bringing a new life into the world? In fact, if He's omnipotent what prevents Him from doing so even if a condom offered one hundred percent protection? Angels dancing on pinheads again, methinks.
Oh, and do not for one moment believe that these men of God are for a single instance concerned about any gays or lesbians being protected from disease. I'm sure any forthcoming statement will clarify for us that the satanic and abominable love of men for men and women for women is utterly worthy of the most insidious death possible. Too bad drawing and quartering is so out of fashion!
Denis Diderot said it best: "Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." God bless him!
Isn't this just grand! Should we fall over in thanksgving and praise this bunch of withered old sexless men in Rome who have finally decreed that in some very rare circumstances saving a life just might take precedence over their moral attribution that condom use is an affront to God?! Wow. Clap your hands if you believe in miracles. (Don't expect it to include same sex usage.)
Bullshit politics again.
First of all - it hasn't been announced by the Church, only leaked by an Italian paper on friendly terms with the Vatican. So, don't hold your breath for anything just yet.
Secondly, even if they issue a modest directive that in a very few instances you won't be committing a grave moral sin protecting someone's life from an incurable and fatal disease by suggesting they use a condom if they are having sexual intercourse it will surely fall far short of fully directing all third world countries to make haste to promote the use of condoms and insisting that all medical and scientific means available be used to end this completely preventable disease from killing millions more of the people of God.
And, it is my heartfelt belief that this seeming act of compassion is not one at all, but rather the belated and far from sufficient response to a slowly dawning realization for Rome that if they allow their new financial and political bases, i.e. the Third World, to die off completely that they will have NO support whatsoever for their antiquated morality tales, either financial or political. (Remember, Europe and the West woke up a while ago to the total lack of Chritian compassion that the Church pontificates in these matters.) After all, to run a business like the Church you definitely need to keep the suckers who ARE paying you alive and healthy enough to keep paying you - and to keep voting for the oppressive religious regimes which keep supporters of such bishops of the Church in power.
Eventually, God willing, education and science will be realized amongst these nations and replace the superstious practices and beliefs which enshrine a deity who loves people only if they are constantly terrified of hell fire and damnation - because, for goodness sakes, the loving God of the New Testament is simply an idealistic and transitory super credulous belief - an omnipotent creator who cannot love a sinner, not really, or forgive anyone anything, not really.
The REAL guy upstairs is the "tooth for a tooth" O.T. guy - so, don't touch yourself or know anything about your body or sex or disease prevention, don't be responsible for your health and the health of others except to say, well, if you get that faggot disease you probably deserved it anyway.
Negative? You bet. And I will be until this pope and his hierarchy do a 360 degree turn about on human sexuality being the greatest of sins. It isn't - forgetting to love God's children and protect them is the sin that will destroy our souls.
In case you're not Catholic and you can't fathom why condom use is a sin of the greatest magnitude in the first place let me enlighten you. A (heterosexual) person who chooses to use a condom disallows God the choice of bringing a new life into the world via your fucking. Of course, at the same time, these Church men will insist, while attempting to prove their point reagrding abstinence, that a condom is not full protection from disease because of its very high failure rate. May I ask if the failure rate is so high how is our omnipotent God prevented from bringing a new life into the world? In fact, if He's omnipotent what prevents Him from doing so even if a condom offered one hundred percent protection? Angels dancing on pinheads again, methinks.
Oh, and do not for one moment believe that these men of God are for a single instance concerned about any gays or lesbians being protected from disease. I'm sure any forthcoming statement will clarify for us that the satanic and abominable love of men for men and women for women is utterly worthy of the most insidious death possible. Too bad drawing and quartering is so out of fashion!
Denis Diderot said it best: "Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." God bless him!
"The good of the people must be the great purpose of government. By the laws of nature and of reason, the governors are invested with power to that end. And the greatest good of the people is liberty. It is to the state what health is to the individual." (from L'Encyclopédie)
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