Thursday, March 26, 2009

Thank God for the Lancet

A recently published Journal article in the prestigious London-based medical journal, the Lancet, condemns Pope Benedict XVI's assertions that the distribution of condoms "can... increase the problem of AIDS". In this blatantly bias and horribly unempathetic attempt to bolster the Catholic faith-quite Imperialistic in intent and orientation-the Pope is selfishly determined to place an unequivocal contortion on the AIDS epidemic in Africa, with the ultimate goal NOT of a utopian abstinent communal outlook, but of a "I told you so" condemnation when this unachievable ideal is not reached, and the problem manifests via a lack of concrete resources and education. It is DISGUSTING to me that a man in such a position of Western wealth and access, with so much obtuse and greatly undeserved influence, uses condemning language and warped ideology to preach to abstract realities, when he could-in theory-have the means to provide concrete, useable means of prevention to these populations at large.
This man is absolutely off his rocker in every sense of the word... thank GOD there are legitimate, educated forums of observation and perception such as the Lancet to augment such falicious assertions and point out, with the supreme authority of science and pure humanistic logic, how terrifyingly off this man's world view is. (In retrospect, perhaps one should thank the philosopher Jesus Christ, who would in all reality rolled in his grave at this gross misappropriation of his text in the modern era).

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