Pope dead.

[Sgt. Boomer]

w00p Wrote:I call forbidding a 99% effective aids prevention measure morally unforgiving.

It’s not like the Pope was teaching “go sleep around without a condom and get Aids.” The Church’s position was the 100% effective means of preventing Aids: abstinence outside of marriage. The Christian faith is like the army: you don’t get brownie points for partial obedience. It’s just stupid to ignore the main message and then follow the footnote. Like those morons who spill hot coffee on themselves then sue the restaurant for not putting a “drink this, don’t pour it on yourself” warning label on the cup.

In Uganda, where churches have, with government cooperation, been most active in teaching abstinence, Aids rates have plummeted. In other parts of Africa where governments have been going along with the UN, passing out condoms ad nauseam, Aids rates have skyrocketed because the men just refuse to wear them. Not out of some semi-devout religious conviction, just because they don’t like them. So even if the Pope hadn’t been so “stuck up” it wouldn’t have made things any better, and – as is so often the case with moral relativism – in Uganda at least, it would have made things worse.