For those concerned with the Catholic Churches stand on condoms with the threat of Aids?

Question

please link and read http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=75698

Gemma: The movie Grudge was on tonight did ya see it?

Answer 1

The link you posted actually has some good points, though there aren't any references backing them up. It would intuitively make sense that freely distributing condoms would actually encourage promiscuity.

Just as it is with so many things (Vietnam, present-day Iraq), it will take a social revolution -- a complete reoriented of the mindset toward sex and promiscuity -- to truly end the AIDS epidemic. Condoms may help temporarily stave it off, but it certainly won't get rid of the problem.

Also, this idea that because we have desires, therefore we should have sex outside of marriage is sad, really. I can't tell you how much pain I see and hear in the eyes and the words of people who try to make this work. There is pain, bitterness, emptiness, and general dissatisfaction among every last person that I have ever talked to about this, without exception. It courses through their veins, and they try to supress it, but it slowly eats away at them like a cancer. I can even sense it in the words of people on this board.

Just know that there is hope in Christ, who can free you from your sins, regardless.

Answer 2

Load of crap.

You can't fight natural instinct with sanctimonious religious hoo-doo.

You have the populations of 3rd world countries that are poorly educated, poor, and often nearly uncivilized. People aren't going to abstain from something that is a natural drive. Behind breathing and eating, the drive to reproduce is the strongest instinct humans have. And it is a scientific fact that humans are not unique in the animal kingdom in that we are sexually designed to be unfaithful.

While it is true that condoms are not 100% effective in every circumstance, they are 100% effective in reducing disease and unwanted pregnancies across populations. Distorting the truth issomething the religious folk have been doing for millenia.

Answer 3

Judeo-Christian tradition has taught for thousands of years:
1. Single people should be celibate.
2. Married people should be faithful to each other (adultery is wrong).
3. Married couples should welcome God's gift of children and, therefore, artificial birth control was against the will of God.

If the world is going to ignore teachings about chastity (1 & 2), then why is the world so upset about teaching artificial birth control (3)?

People who are already ignoring the more important teachings about chastity (1 and 2) should have no problem ignoring the less important teaching of artificial birth control (3).

Even if a person infected with AIDS was to use a condom to help protect his or her spouse, condoms are not 100% effective (read the box) and the spouse may be infected and die anyway. A person who truly loves their spouse would not endanger them in this way.

In regards to sex outside of marriage, the Church makes it a practice not to tell people how to sin. Fornication with or without a condom is still fornication. Adultery with or without a condom is still adultery.

With love in Christ.

Answer 4

The Church's stance is wrong and irresponsible. They have an ethical responsibility to do the right thing, but they will not.

And Mother Teresa does NOT deserve sainthood. The main reason she had so many people to care for was because of her own teachings that the use of birth control is wrong.

Answer 5

People are going to have sex.

Period.
It doesn't matter if it's the preist and the choir boy, or the woman born with AIDS in Africa.

People are going to have sex.

Answer 6

What do concerned Catholics think of this - from their infallible pope, no less?

http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,450857,00.html

Answer 7

Victims! Nothing is ever their fault. It's always someone else' fault.

It's time to grow up and take responsibility for your actions. Don't look for someone else to blame. You are responsible for your own actions.