[kj] OT: Science question

[Darren A. Peace]

I expect I'm going to offend someone by saying this, but that's tough.

 

I consider the Catholic Church to be one of the biggest blights humanity has
ever had to endure. The Pope's view on condoms is likely to kill more people
than the Crusades I to V, and how anyone in a position of power can spread
such poisonous, evil, self-aggrandising bollocks and not be globally
pilloried is beyond my comprehension.

 

Don't get me started on the concepts of confession and absolution.

 

Darren

Hungerford, UK

 

From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On
Behalf Of Jim Harper
Sent: 14 April 2009 01:12
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Subject: Re: [kj] OT: Science question

 


Condoms don't promote promiscuity. Promiscuity has been practiced by a
sizeable prooportion of the human for as long as we've been in existence.
Unless you can make a solid case that human beings were less promiscuous
before the onset of readily available condoms (and the booming populations
of third world countries with no contraception would seem to indicate the
opposite), then your argument (and the Pope's) is as filmsy as most people
believe it is.

 

Of course, the argument is entirely erroneous and highly dangerous. But then
it's not intended to be a carefully considered, logical assertion; it's
simply a cynical and merciless attempt to exploit the fears of uneducated
Africans and paint the Catholic Church as the only possible saviour from
disease. There's no way in hell the Pope would dare make such assertions in
a first world country, but he probably figures he can feed the
poorly-educated black people any old crap and get away with it.

Jim.

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Stephen Lawrence <stephen.l at live.com
<http://uk.mc259.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=stephen.l@live.com> > wrote:

i have no admiration for Any figurehead being it either political or
religious but condoms promote promiscuity and that is how AIDS
spread...nothing wrong with married partners making love and also attempting
to procreate but recreational sex advances S T I 's 

 

 

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