Aggravating Condoms
Will wonders never cease; Pope Benedict has mouthed the revolting word that describes an issue that interferes with fertility: the immortal condom. Humankind has used condoms of one kind or another - often made of stretched animal skins in the far distant past - to protect against unwanted pregnancies.
This, however, represents a gross defiance of God-granted sexuality that procreation is the purpose of a coupling. All else is sin. Now that he's said it, one can only wonder if he reacted with the kind of revulsion that would have him make haste to penitence, and wash his mouth with a foamy detergent.
This man, who took an oath of abstinence in obedience to his voluntarily relinquishing his place in the world of men to take up his place in the world of the divine, married to God's word alone, speaks as one with full knowledge of carnality and its avoidance.
He seeks to awake in the conscience of humanity a "spiritual and human awakening", along with "friendship for those who suffer". Conscience, he might know, is a cerebral function; sexuality an emotional one, and they are as water is to oil. The compulsion to sex is invested in us as it is in all biological creatures for the purpose of propagation, the perpetuation of the species.
Conscience is the intelligent self informing oneself that one should behave in a certain manner, else one is aggrieved with oneself. Pope Benedict relies on his intelligence to move him in certain ways, to unerringly lead him to determine the manner in which he, as the Shepherd of God, may lead the masses to righteousness. And it isn't through the use of condoms.
Condoms, therefore, are an improper response to HIV- and AIDS-prevention. Let alone any manner of sexually transmitted diseases. Heterosexuality, chastity, devotion to one's spouse, loom large as preventives. And he travels through Africa with this message. This is the continent where women are raped by casual convention, by war-torn convention, by social acceptance.
But the Roman Catholic Church, he claims, is in the forefront of the battle against AIDS. Just not by distributing condoms, as one of the most effective methods of prevention.
Condoms, he claims, increase the problem of AIDS-conduction. What the problem requires is a 'responsible and moral attitude' toward sex. And he plans to enthuse his African flock with that 'responsible and moral attitude'. He will convince Africans that the solution to AIDS is not to rape a virginal child, after all.
Tens of millions in Africa are infected with HIV; three-quarters of all AIDS deaths occur in sub-Saharan Africa. The pope's anti-condom campaign doesn't enthuse Rebecca Hodes of the Treatment Action Campaign in South Africa. She feels a 'responsible and moral' pope would promote access to condoms, and help to educate people in their use.
"Instead, his opposition to condoms conveys that religious dogma is more important to him than the lives of Africans." Contraception devices are clearly devious instruments of the devil. Fidelity in marriage and strict sexual abstinence, particularly premarital, must be key to battling AIDS.
The Pope was greeted by the President of Cameroon, whose government has been accused by Amnesty International, among others, of human rights abuses and abuses against his political opponents. Yet the pope avoided mention of ill-doing, claiming instead that "a Christian can never remain silent" in the face of violence, poverty, hunger, corruption or abuse of power.
So is it those issues that are front and foremost in his addresses within this blighted continent where viciously violent wars, mass rapes, mutilations, group murder, millions of refugees seeking refuge, are the order of the day in so many of its nations? It is none of those things, other than in a veiled way, while blatantly up front is the rejection of one of the signal defenders against the communication of AIDS.
Africa represents the swiftest-growing area in the world for the Roman Catholic Church. "The saving message of the Gospel needs to be proclaimed loud and clear so that the light of Christ can shine into the darkness of peoples' lives", he pontificated.
This, however, represents a gross defiance of God-granted sexuality that procreation is the purpose of a coupling. All else is sin. Now that he's said it, one can only wonder if he reacted with the kind of revulsion that would have him make haste to penitence, and wash his mouth with a foamy detergent.
This man, who took an oath of abstinence in obedience to his voluntarily relinquishing his place in the world of men to take up his place in the world of the divine, married to God's word alone, speaks as one with full knowledge of carnality and its avoidance.
He seeks to awake in the conscience of humanity a "spiritual and human awakening", along with "friendship for those who suffer". Conscience, he might know, is a cerebral function; sexuality an emotional one, and they are as water is to oil. The compulsion to sex is invested in us as it is in all biological creatures for the purpose of propagation, the perpetuation of the species.
Conscience is the intelligent self informing oneself that one should behave in a certain manner, else one is aggrieved with oneself. Pope Benedict relies on his intelligence to move him in certain ways, to unerringly lead him to determine the manner in which he, as the Shepherd of God, may lead the masses to righteousness. And it isn't through the use of condoms.
Condoms, therefore, are an improper response to HIV- and AIDS-prevention. Let alone any manner of sexually transmitted diseases. Heterosexuality, chastity, devotion to one's spouse, loom large as preventives. And he travels through Africa with this message. This is the continent where women are raped by casual convention, by war-torn convention, by social acceptance.
But the Roman Catholic Church, he claims, is in the forefront of the battle against AIDS. Just not by distributing condoms, as one of the most effective methods of prevention.
Condoms, he claims, increase the problem of AIDS-conduction. What the problem requires is a 'responsible and moral attitude' toward sex. And he plans to enthuse his African flock with that 'responsible and moral attitude'. He will convince Africans that the solution to AIDS is not to rape a virginal child, after all.
Tens of millions in Africa are infected with HIV; three-quarters of all AIDS deaths occur in sub-Saharan Africa. The pope's anti-condom campaign doesn't enthuse Rebecca Hodes of the Treatment Action Campaign in South Africa. She feels a 'responsible and moral' pope would promote access to condoms, and help to educate people in their use.
"Instead, his opposition to condoms conveys that religious dogma is more important to him than the lives of Africans." Contraception devices are clearly devious instruments of the devil. Fidelity in marriage and strict sexual abstinence, particularly premarital, must be key to battling AIDS.
The Pope was greeted by the President of Cameroon, whose government has been accused by Amnesty International, among others, of human rights abuses and abuses against his political opponents. Yet the pope avoided mention of ill-doing, claiming instead that "a Christian can never remain silent" in the face of violence, poverty, hunger, corruption or abuse of power.
So is it those issues that are front and foremost in his addresses within this blighted continent where viciously violent wars, mass rapes, mutilations, group murder, millions of refugees seeking refuge, are the order of the day in so many of its nations? It is none of those things, other than in a veiled way, while blatantly up front is the rejection of one of the signal defenders against the communication of AIDS.
Africa represents the swiftest-growing area in the world for the Roman Catholic Church. "The saving message of the Gospel needs to be proclaimed loud and clear so that the light of Christ can shine into the darkness of peoples' lives", he pontificated.
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