RE: If God is all mighty,why doesn't he change bad people/seiners into good ones?
March 18, 2013 at 7:39 pm
(This post was last modified: March 18, 2013 at 7:45 pm by jstrodel.)
(March 18, 2013 at 12:16 pm)Rhythm Wrote:(March 17, 2013 at 8:40 pm)jstrodel Wrote: Well, if they didn't take the women during a time of war as their wives, they would have had to kill them.
Why?
Because if there are thouands of people around, the people can turn around and revolt and kill the occupiers. Look at how difficult it was for the US to subdue Iraq with all the weapons that it had.
Quote:If you assume that all cases of AIDS are transmitted via consensual sex or drug use, yes. That is, of course, entirely untrue. What does Catholic doctrine suggest we do with the two and a half million babies born with AIDS? 21st century leper colonies? What about the extraordinary prevalence of rape in sub-Saharan Africa, and the tens of thousands of young people and children infected in this manner? How does Catholic doctrine protect them?
It is not like condoms solve this problem. They are not 100% effective. A person who is HIV positive can't protect them-self with a condom. The ONLY safe thing for them to do is abstain from all sexual activity.
The cruelest thing in the world to do would be to suggest to someone that 95% effectiveness or 99% effectiveness was enough to stop something as dangerous as HIV.
It doesn't really seem like any of you really want to understand the issues surrounding HIV, you would rather blame the church for something that really isn't related. If people have sex before marriage, there is a high risk that they will contract some sort of STD or AIDs. It does matter if they use a condom, but it doesn't matter enough to make it some kind of magic bullet. The only kind of safe sex is sex between married people who are tested.
