Your faith...

[Chuckles]

Catholics in "Being idiots" total non-shocker.

[Matblack]

Originally Posted by Slinwagh

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...ids-worse.html

Here is one of the Popes latest little gems.



For me this just highlight how out of touch modern religion is. The worst thing is millions of people listen to this man.

Its not that they listen which is the problem, the problem is that they blindly follow.

I have a mate who is a Catholic, he isn't a moron, but he follows the beliefs of his church and because the pope says its wrong he believes barrier contraception is wrong, ask him why and he'll say because the church says so

The refusal us use barrier contraception was brought in by the Catholic faith many many years ago to prevent Catholics having sex for fun; fine if they want to rule it out as a recreational activity but to doggedly sticking to their guns in the face of an epidemic which can only be stopped by abstainance or barrier contraception is madness and in my eyes a crime against humanity.

MB

[Glaucus]

Originally Posted by Matblack

The refusal us use barrier contraception was brought in by the Catholic faith many many years ago to prevent Catholics having sex for fun; fine if they want to rule it out as a recreational activity but to doggedly sticking to their guns in the face of an epidemic which can only be stopped by abstainance or barrier contraception is madness and in my eyes a crime against humanity.

MB

But the come back to that is, if they blindly followed religion. they wouldn't shag around and would abstain till marriage. So they ignore one message from him, but rigidly stick to the other. Sounds like most of these people would shag around without condoms regardless.

[Briggykins]

But the opinion of a man who is held in such high regard in the area must surely impact on the availability or even the social acceptance of condoms? Thus those who wish to have sex with a condom, and don't follow Christianity, might be prevented from doing so.
Didn't the previous Pope accept that condoms were the lesser of two evils in this area? (Edit - No. I seem to have been wrong about this) I really don't understand the Church's intransigence in the face of such a humanitarian catastrophe.

[Glaucus]

Originally Posted by Briggykins

I really don't understand the Church's intransigence in the face of such a humanitarian catastrophe.

I really don't understand how people can worship a false idol like the pope.

[Matblack]

Originally Posted by AcidHell2

I really don't understand how people can worship a false idol like the pope.

I don't think people worship him as such but they do take what he says to be the will of the church which is dangerous enough.

MB

[Glaucus]

Originally Posted by Matblack

I don't think people worship him as such but they do take what he says to be the will of the church which is dangerous enough.

MB

Still goes against the bible which is what their religion is meant to be based on.

[Slinwagh]

Originally Posted by AcidHell2

But the come back to that is, if they blindly followed religion. they wouldn't shag around and would abstain till marriage. So they ignore one message from him, but rigidly stick to the other.

Doesn't that sum up the hypocrisy of religion?

[Garp]

Originally Posted by Slinwagh

Doesn't that sum up the hypocrisy of religion?

Surely that just sums up the hypocrisy of man? That he says he adheres to one thing and then does another?

It's not like his faith has told him it's acceptable behaviour.

[Glaucus]

Originally Posted by Slinwagh

Doesn't that sum up the hypocrisy of religion?

Nope, just people.