This doesn't surprise me; I don't know how we're supposedly to look at ignorant and just plain untrue comments like "condoms won't help with the aids problem" and not think, "Wow, I guess the Pope just doesn't give a shit if millions of Africans live or die." I think that's probably true. I don't think it's really racism, just indifference...which is a damn shame considering the Pope is a leader in what is supposed to be a religion based on mercy and compassion.
It's this kind of statement that reveals the true goals behind anti-contraception, anti-abortion extremism: exercising control over people's lives and bodies, and punishing sluts who dare to violate the arbitrary rules laid down by religious authorities to ensure that control. In the minds of whackos like the pope, if you are having sex outside of marriage and end up pregant, or with aids, that is just what you deserve. Maybe having an aids-infected baby will teach you a lesson, you whore! (Seriously, crazy anti-sexers actually say this shit.Bottom line, on this issue:
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Seriously, I heard that shit from religious fanatics about Hurricane Katrina and 9-11: "IT'S GOD'S RIGHTFUL PUNISHMENT FOR THESE DENS OF SIN." It's such smug, sadistic asshattery that I want to go around with a sledgehammer and smack me some of these people in a game of whack-a-douche. They seem to take pleasure in the misfortune of people because it vindicates their own petty-minded righteousness.
It's this kind of statement that reveals the true goals behind anti-contraception, anti-abortion extremism: exercising control over people's lives and bodies, and punishing sluts who dare to violate the arbitrary rules laid down by religious authorities to ensure that control
Exactly.
I think these people are so blinded by their own beliefs that they're not looking at the facts.
Bottom line, on this issue: if Pope Palpatine doesn't have anything compassionate or even useful to say about the AIDS epidemic in Africa (or any other issue), he should shut his fucking hatehole.
I don't see the problem with celibacy and the ideal of celibacy, per se. I'm celibate (but then again, I'm also more/less asexual and uninterested) and I have quite a few Christian friends who practise celibacy and are waiting for marriage
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Um, I didn't blame it on Christianity. I'm aiming this at the Pope who happens to BE a Christian figure, but I said 'religious', which could be a whole number of religions with the strict moral guidelines on sexuality. Religon does have its own unique brand of idiocy, hence why I specify 'religious'. I don't believe I've actually said anything along the lines of: "THOSE DAGGUN CHRISTIANS AND THEIR DAGGUN IDEALS" in here.
I don't see the problem with celibacy and the ideal of celibacy, per se. I'm celibate (but then again, I'm also more/less asexual and uninterested) and I have quite a few Christian friends who practise celibacy and are waiting for marriage.
I’m asexual and uninterested. It’s not celibacy that I think is ridiculous, it’s culturally-enforced celibacy: when the mindset of a given culture or religion gives people no other alternative. It’s the stigma against abortions, the laws against people being given birth control or being allowed to abort, the lack of safe sex education aside from: “never have sex” that leads kids to be very unaware of their options, and the moral lectures about how sex is this pure and holy union only to be enjoyed within the bonds of marriage. It’s fine if you have decided that sex is special and you would like to save yourself, but to force it upon others and make a law out of it when the probably reason for the stigma coming into being is now obsolete? That is what I have a problem with. Believe what you will,
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The pope is sticking to the catholic church's agenda. Hell, the people of war-torn african countries don't have money to give the church, so what does the church care if millions of little brown people die?
The AIDS epidemic in Africa has a lot to do with war-related raping and pillaging, as well as religious beliefs that if a man with AIDS has sex with a virgin he will get rid of his AIDS by giving it to her, which requires an exchange of fluids. So technically, the pope telling these people to use condoms will be largely useless, but not for the reasons that he thinks.
The pope sucks and is clearly misinformed across the charts. AND STILL CALLS HIS CHURCH THE FOREFRONT DEFENSE AGAINST AIDS.
I didn't mention the rape and the AIDS because they weren't involved in the issue that the Pope was addressing: promiscuity. But, yeah, that's a big fucking part of the problem to be ignoring. Maybe if they helped out in the issue I just posted about, we could see a result.
Meanwhile, my dad still thinks it's the gay men. What a marooon.
If his issue was promiscuity, then condoms and AIDS shouldn't even come into it. I don't understand the church's reasoning behind encouraging the no sex til marriage thing anyway. That makes about as much sense to me as Ash Wednesday, when nutballs wander the streets with dirt smeared on their foreheads.
Bringing the AIDS epidemic up to try to scare people into celibacy is a cheap way to go about trying to get people to conform to the Church's agenda.
It's criminal to blame PROMISCUITY for the spread of AIDS in African nations and overlook the REAL reasons for the spread of AIDS: RAPE and erroneously prescribed AIDS antidotes that leave innocent women infected with a viral death sentence.
Pope Ratty is an unrepentant dick. I fuckin' hate that guy.
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It's this kind of statement that reveals the true goals behind anti-contraception, anti-abortion extremism: exercising control over people's lives and bodies, and punishing sluts who dare to violate the arbitrary rules laid down by religious authorities to ensure that control. In the minds of whackos like the pope, if you are having sex outside of marriage and end up pregant, or with aids, that is just what you deserve. Maybe having an aids-infected baby will teach you a lesson, you whore! (Seriously, crazy anti-sexers actually say this shit.Bottom line, on this issue: ( ... )
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And WORD.
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Exactly.
I think these people are so blinded by their own beliefs that they're not looking at the facts.
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Hmmm...perhaps you should take your own advice.
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Um, I didn't blame it on Christianity. I'm aiming this at the Pope who happens to BE a Christian figure, but I said 'religious', which could be a whole number of religions with the strict moral guidelines on sexuality. Religon does have its own unique brand of idiocy, hence why I specify 'religious'. I don't believe I've actually said anything along the lines of: "THOSE DAGGUN CHRISTIANS AND THEIR DAGGUN IDEALS" in here.
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I’m asexual and uninterested. It’s not celibacy that I think is ridiculous, it’s culturally-enforced celibacy: when the mindset of a given culture or religion gives people no other alternative. It’s the stigma against abortions, the laws against people being given birth control or being allowed to abort, the lack of safe sex education aside from: “never have sex” that leads kids to be very unaware of their options, and the moral lectures about how sex is this pure and holy union only to be enjoyed within the bonds of marriage. It’s fine if you have decided that sex is special and you would like to save yourself, but to force it upon others and make a law out of it when the probably reason for the stigma coming into being is now obsolete? That is what I have a problem with. Believe what you will, ( ... )
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The pope is sticking to the catholic church's agenda. Hell, the people of war-torn african countries don't have money to give the church, so what does the church care if millions of little brown people die?
The AIDS epidemic in Africa has a lot to do with war-related raping and pillaging, as well as religious beliefs that if a man with AIDS has sex with a virgin he will get rid of his AIDS by giving it to her, which requires an exchange of fluids. So technically, the pope telling these people to use condoms will be largely useless, but not for the reasons that he thinks.
Crazy nazi pope XD
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I didn't mention the rape and the AIDS because they weren't involved in the issue that the Pope was addressing: promiscuity. But, yeah, that's a big fucking part of the problem to be ignoring. Maybe if they helped out in the issue I just posted about, we could see a result.
Meanwhile, my dad still thinks it's the gay men. What a marooon.
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Bringing the AIDS epidemic up to try to scare people into celibacy is a cheap way to go about trying to get people to conform to the Church's agenda.
It's criminal to blame PROMISCUITY for the spread of AIDS in African nations and overlook the REAL reasons for the spread of AIDS: RAPE and erroneously prescribed AIDS antidotes that leave innocent women infected with a viral death sentence.
Pope Ratty is an unrepentant dick. I fuckin' hate that guy.
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