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Brazil Hands Out 10 Mln Condoms for Carnival[^] But Costa cautioned that the Roman Catholic church might oppose the campaign. The Vatican has opposed the use of condoms, and recently questioned their effectiveness against sexually transmitted diseases. Are they crazy? :confused: Mazy "Improvisation is the touchstone of wit." - Molière
Mazdak wrote: Vatican has opposed the use of condoms, "The Roman Catholic Church has admitted erring these past 359 years in formally condemning Galileo Galilei for entertaining scientific truths it long denounced as anti-scriptural heresy." http://www.dslnorthwest.net/~danwilcox/galileo.html[^] We only need to wait 359 years for the Vatican to admit they are wrong! jhaga --------------------------------- Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. Henry David Thoreau, "Walden", 1854
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To my knowledge there isn't any direct proof that HIV causes AIDS. I can't remember the fellow's name but in light of this fact he used to(may still) parade around the US claiming to drink a solution containing the HIV virus to "support" his claims. Does anyone remember this dudes name?
Peter Duesberg, Professor of Molecular and Cell biology at Berkeley is sceptic about HIV/AIDS but I have not heard anything from him in some years. jhaga --------------------------------- Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. Henry David Thoreau, "Walden", 1854
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Mazdak wrote: Well, If that what Vatican say, I think its acceptable. Unless you claim to be Catholic, it doesn't matter. I disagree with the Vatican in a number of areas also, but it is no more relevant than, say, my disagreeing with the Elks Club bylaws - i'm under no obligation to accept them regardless.
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Mazdak wrote: Are they crazy? "they" who? ;P Actually, it's a bit of misunderstanding between the parts; the Vatican is right and the Health Dept. is right, too. The Vatican's approach of not using condoms on AIDS prevention works, if you fully read their advice: do sex with only one person on your whole life, and this person should do it too, and only during marriage. Don't forget, the Catholic church is a religion and they are supposed to follow what's written on the Bible, as fully as they can. On the opposite side, you can use condoms, and this will protect you from getting AIDS. But really, if your girlfriend comes and tell you "I have AIDS, let's make sex!", how many men would be able to do it, even with a condom? I wouldn't. :) What is foolish (actually, suicide), and both sides agree, is having unprotected sex with lots of people. Perl combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript. -- Jamie Zawinski
Daniel Turini wrote: Actually, it's a bit of misunderstanding between the parts; the Vatican is right and the Health Dept. is right, too. The problem with what the Catholic church is saying is this: they say that the AIDS virus passes right through condoms. Therefore, condoms provide absolutely no protection at all. This belief has two effects: (1) it can cause people to not have sex because condoms provide no protection (this is what the Catholic church is aiming for, even though they are doing it by lying to people), and (2) people have sex without condoms because they think the condoms don't help anyway, so why bother. The second effect has been seen in various places where AIDS is rampant, and it is a big reason why people are coming down on the Catholic church. ------------------------------------------ Law of Nazi Analogies: As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one. In any debate, Hitler's opinion on the subject is automatically the evil one, so it had better be contrary to the side you're arguing.