I was once quoted as saying that you know you're scraping the bottom of the moral sinkhole when your insurance company is acting as your conscience and forcing you to take the moral high ground. This was said of the Catholic Church, in reference to the reason they told priests to stop molesting little boys (i.e., that the companies underwriting their cover-all insurance policies were saying that the constant private settlements--oh yes, the Church knew about the problem for years before doing anything--had to stop and weren't being covered anymore).
Anyway, despite saying just two nights ago that I had a great deal of respect for their religion, I'm afraid my opinion of the institution has hit a new low. Lizmonster found this article, about how the Archbishop of the AIDS-ravaged Mozambique has told his relatively uneducated followers not to use condoms, because the Europeans are deliberately infecting them with HIV. And to keep his story consistent, he's apparently also saying that the anti-retroviral drugs are similarly laced with the deadly virus to "finish quickly the African people."
Needless to say, unless the Church intervenes rapidly, Archbishop Chimoio has just sentenced many people to a slow and painful death. So far, though, the Catholic Church's opposition to condoms has prevented any response that my Internet connection and I can find.
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Faith works as long as you have faith that it works. When you start to question faith and think with logic, you more often than not will discover terrible and illogical things, such as lies about AIDS and condoms. In that moment of discovery you will truly understand why it is indeed called faith.
Let's not get overly excited here. One archbishop in a remote part of the world does not speak on behalf of the Church at large, and the removal and replacement of an archbishop is not a straightforward and direct process. I agree with you insofar as Chimoio is something of a lunatic and needs to be silenced, but don't think that the Pope and the Church at large are supporting him.
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