Monday, June 28, 2004
Had a good nights sleep last night, such a relief after the three hours or so that I managed Saturday night/Sunday morning. I was beginning to hallucinate last night, I imagined I was watching Panorama on the BBC and it was a crazy program about how the Catholic Church is lying it's enormous arse off about the dangers of using condoms and how it's screwing up the war against AIDS, especially in Africa and South America. Oh wait... It was a follow-up to this edition from last year.
If the Vatican was restricting itself to just saying "We're hopelessly out of touch, please don't use condoms because they make baby Jesus cry" then I wouldn't mind so much but these fuckers are putting out deliberately flawed 'research' to back up their position and people are listening to them. The program took two-thirds of their time to demolish every claim the Church has made about the dangers of condoms but the final third were case studies in the lives the Church has ruined, the Ugandan wife who's husband has AIDS and who has regular unprotected sex with him because their church has told them that using condoms will send them to hell when they die.
It's shit like this that makes me so angry at the Christian death cult, I don't think it's right that we'll have to wait another few decades before the Catholic Church even starts reluctantly apologising for another fuck up, like they're doing now for abuse committed in the sixties and seventies. The Church lies and people die. Surely the Catholic Church is the one institution with the most innocent blood on it's hands?
If the Vatican was restricting itself to just saying "We're hopelessly out of touch, please don't use condoms because they make baby Jesus cry" then I wouldn't mind so much but these fuckers are putting out deliberately flawed 'research' to back up their position and people are listening to them. The program took two-thirds of their time to demolish every claim the Church has made about the dangers of condoms but the final third were case studies in the lives the Church has ruined, the Ugandan wife who's husband has AIDS and who has regular unprotected sex with him because their church has told them that using condoms will send them to hell when they die.
It's shit like this that makes me so angry at the Christian death cult, I don't think it's right that we'll have to wait another few decades before the Catholic Church even starts reluctantly apologising for another fuck up, like they're doing now for abuse committed in the sixties and seventies. The Church lies and people die. Surely the Catholic Church is the one institution with the most innocent blood on it's hands?
