They just don't understand that telling people condoms don't work won't stop them from having sex. It will just convince them to not use condoms, or other birth control methods, when they do have sex.


And of course on the off chance some repressed teen decides to actually wait, they get married at 18 just so they can start having sex.

It's not good buddy. Not good at all.

Godschild Wrote:Hell has been a reason for people to come to Christ and rightly so, it want be pleasant, love however should be the greater part of the Christians life.

GC

Y'know, there once was a ruler who insisted that the people follow his dogma, or suffer inescapable and agonizing punishment.

That's right: Josef Stalin.

That is what happens when you're selling a bankrupt ideology ... persuasion must make use of fear.

I'm a Texan by birth as well. Stalin sux!

(February 18, 2015 at 8:35 pm)The Reality Salesman Wrote: Would you prefer that I refer to the protection of hundreds of pedophiles for the good of the church? The church they believe their God wants them to protect...there's really an endless supply of people doing these crazy things. The reason you can be catholic and still be disgusted is because of your individual moral compass. The same one that dismisses all the barbarism God ordered Moses to carry out. You do this because the morality in the bible comes from OUR intuition that recognizes the good from the bad. It has nothing to do with whomever you believed to have put them in there. No God needed.

I don't see anything in your sources that says that missionaries are saying that condoms cause disease or that condom use is worse than having AIDS. What are you talking about? You're pulling stuff out of the air.

Ah, then either English isn't your native language or you are unable to utilize rational inferences. I'm afraid neither of those handicaps will serve you well on this site. Good luck!

Religion directly causes massive needless harm.

If you don't think that's true, you're denying reality. The condom thing is but one example.

(February 19, 2015 at 12:27 am)Lek Wrote: I don't see anything in your sources that says that missionaries are saying that condoms cause disease or that condom use is worse than having AIDS. What are you talking about? You're pulling stuff out of the air.

Yeah, I know. It's not like anybody furnished you with clear pictorial evidence of worse claims being made by Catholic organizations down that way. Never happened.

(February 18, 2015 at 5:18 pm)Esquilax Wrote:

(February 18, 2015 at 3:56 pm)YGninja Wrote: The knowledge of God, and his laws, is put into your heart. Whether you follow them or not is entirely at your discretion. The Bible isnt the map, rather just an explanation of it.

Why do you think it's okay to tell us what we know and believe in one thread, when in another thread you derided me when you perceived that I was doing the same thing?

Can you say a single thing without proving yourself a hypocrite?

If you are referring to the 14 y/o kid who referred to his parents as "retarded" for being Christian yet claimed only to have a "lack of belief", the two are very different instances.

The real challenge is, can you say a single thing without a smug emote??