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filthy
SFN Die Hard

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Posted - 04/05/2009 :  05:37:32  Show Profile Send filthy a Private Message  Reply with Quote
We've all heard about the doddering, vicious old fools's visit to Africa and the outright lies he told about condoms to prevent AIDS infections. Well, here's Moford's take on it:
Pope, extra ribbed

Benedict says condoms make AIDS worse. God recoils in shame

By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist

Friday, April 3, 2009

What sort of wretched deity is this? What sort of tormented, clenched God must you believe in to cause you to openly promote ignorance and death for the sake of power and ideology and fear -- always, always a deep fear -- of love and sex and basic human connection?

Let me try to be a little more specific: Is it not some form of strange self-torture, a kind of brutal spiritual immolation, to believe that God is this gloomy, obsessive micromanager, so petty and vindictive regarding what you do with your body that you/he will let people die for the sake of it? Do you have any sort of answer?

Shall we ask the pope?





"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)

"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres


"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude

Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,

and Crypto-Communist!

HalfMooner
Dingaling

Philippines
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Posted - 04/05/2009 :  05:59:56   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send HalfMooner a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Modern Popes no longer have the political power to launch genocidal Crusades, pogroms against Jews, witch-hunts, or Inquisitions against "heretics." It must be frustrating to them to be denied this traditional power of the See of Rome.

But wait!: Millions still can be slaughtered! All it takes is lying words and an army of priestly enforcers to prevent people from using a simple and effective latex barrier to prevent a plague from spreading. It must make that Hitler Youth alumnus Ratzi sweat and tremble with glee inside his silk robes to think of the deaths he's causing in Africa.


Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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