WTF???

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/17/pope-africa-condoms-aids

I kept looking through the article for some sort of explanation as to why, exactly condom use would increase the risk of AIDS, since it does appear that's what the Pope actually said. But I don't, for some reason, see any sort of of rationalization or reasoning for the remark.

I think he probably meant that using condoms means you are still engaging in riskier behavior than by not engaging in it at all, which, I guess strictly speaking is correct, even though it's not realistic or pragmatic approach to the AIDS crisis in Africa.

Who would have thought that a man who's thinking is straight out of the 15th century would ignore centuries of scientific knowledge in order to stay true to a book of oral stories written down hundreds of years later in a dead language and then translated several times since.

And really…Who even takes him serious anymore? (outside of the state New Jersey). The Catholic church invents dogma when they don't like what the bible says. By the way…where did the whole "purgatory" thing come from anyways?

Peace, DAG.