Comment Re:The Vatican is killing thousands of Africans (Score 1) 652
Are you serious? How did this get modded up so high? To make such a sensationalistic statement makes it fairly obvious that you have an agenda yourself (trolling, perhaps?)
Their policy is that the act of sex is meant for procreation. That using a condom is obviously meant to circumvent this. Abstinence is their recommendation. Until marriage, of course. Nothing else.
Yes, I am Catholic. Do I agree with all of their tenets? No. Have I used a condom before? Yes. Do I disagree with their attempts at censorship? Yes.
Stop making everything so black and white. I'm sure there are bishops dancing in private over the deaths of AIDS victims. Your whole statement has the intellectual force of a racists rantings, except you're pointing your hatred squarely at the Catholic church.
)."So the Vatican may not kill you for beshmirching the name of a legendary, likely never-having-existed woman who sired the bastard Christian demigod Jesus (though they do apparently think nothing of violating your basic right of free expression for doing so), but they'll certainly encourage you to kill yourself via unsafe sex, especially if you're an African."
Their policy is that the act of sex is meant for procreation. That using a condom is obviously meant to circumvent this. Abstinence is their recommendation. Until marriage, of course. Nothing else.
Yes, I am Catholic. Do I agree with all of their tenets? No. Have I used a condom before? Yes. Do I disagree with their attempts at censorship? Yes.
Stop making everything so black and white. I'm sure there are bishops dancing in private over the deaths of AIDS victims. Your whole statement has the intellectual force of a racists rantings, except you're pointing your hatred squarely at the Catholic church.