For those of us who have worked even one day in Africa and seen the suffering of those people living with AIDS, no, dying from AIDS, despite our faith, our religion, our background, we recognize the importance of sensitization and prevention campaigns that are candid, frank and practical. Telling people not to have sex will not stop people from having sex. GOD! What is wrong with the Catholic Church??? Why must it still, when it comes to this very basic of human desires, walk the moral high ground? And now it is doing so at the expense of lives of the most vulnerable people in the world. Ya, PapaRazzi. Of course people are going to cheer for you when you’re in their land, bringing them media attention. But do you not realize that the entire LOGICAL world is laughing at your inane, ignorant and harmful assertion that the use of condoms increases the problem of AIDS??? If there is a God, she must also be wondering how you got hired. Have you ever politely asked a dog to stop humping your leg? What was the result? My point exactly. People will have sex with or without condoms, with or without information, with or without birth control. Knowledge is power. Give them ALL the options, including abstinence and condoms, and let them decide for themselves.
And we thought that the 21st Century would bring us a space odyssey, time travel and flying cars. I am just so baffled at how we ended up with a retrograde church, trying to muster a following in the poorest countries of the world, playing on people’s fears, their desperate needs and their ignorance, just to increase its membership. SHAME ON YOU PapaRazzi. Good will, Good Schmwill. Where is the goodness in oppressing the oppressed?
Get out a science book. Read it. Put the bible away. Let simmer. Add a cup of logic, a dash of intelligence, 30 years of statistics and mix well. Wrap in latex and let rise. Then go back to Africa and see what kind of message your mouth can provide to people who need to hear some common sense.
I JUST DON’T GET IT. GET OVER YOURSELF CHURCH!
Thanks for visiting my blog and for having a crush on me. See, the problem is that ever since sex officially became fun (around the 1960s with the advent of easy contraception) people have been leaving the church…too much guilt, etc. And when people leave the church, the church suffers financially. And the Catholic Church has been hit hard in the holy pocketbook lately and the only way they know to build up that bank account is to put the guilt back in s.e.x. Follow the money is always the answer to WTF questions.
I think that this time the Pope has made a statement very far from reality. Of course he has never lived in Africa but his “representants” know that around 33 million of people living with HIV, of which 22 million people are in the Sub-Saharan Africa region.
Today the condom is the most efficient and available preventive tool against sexual diseases (UNAIDS reference).
The entire Church’s position on sexual stuff is absolutely hypocrite and inane because we know that in reality people are still going to continue with their sexual activities, spouses will cheat, some people will continue with their promiscuous lifestyles. No one is going to say: “Stop. I think I shall abstain from sex!” All is matter of information and prevention.
I would like to say more about the business around the Catholic Church in the Africa continent…it is shame and immoral; but we can talk about this subject on your next blog!!!
Freedom means being able to think, choose, and act independently without constraint and is arguably one of the basic human rights. Total freedom of the individual, without a sense of responsibility or self-restraint, soon infringes on the freedom of others and therefore freedom of the individual in a society involves some measure of regulation and boundaries. These boundaries are not universally agreed or fixed and so the discussion of freedom and rights is ongoing, as one person’s freedom impacts on another’s. Freedom and its synonym liberty involve rights, marking out of boundaries and territory, and liberation of those whose freedom has been taken away. Freedom is emotive, raising passion and argument — it rarely seems to be about “live and let live”.
If you like this you will soon realize that this is the exact opposite of “religion”…
from the latin “religere” (to bind).