Hell and the Play Nice Christian

[Thumpalumpacus]

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.

You clearly didn't see the part where the Catholic bishop insisted that pro-condom ads be pulled.

Also, you clearly did open Esquilax's link showing this billboard:



Mind you, that billboard, and two others like it, were mounted by a Catholic organization, Human life International.

And you clearly are uninformed about the public controversy over the Church's position:

The Catholic Church is telling people in countries stricken by Aids not to use condoms because they have tiny holes in them through which the HIV virus can pass - potentially exposing thousands of people to risk.

The church is making the claims across four continents despite a widespread scientific consensus that condoms are impermeable to the HIV virus.

A senior Vatican spokesman backs the claims about permeable condoms, despite assurances by the World Health Organisation that they are untrue.

The church's claims are revealed in a BBC1 Panorama programme, Sex and the Holy City, to be broadcast on Sunday. The president of the Vatican's Pontifical Council for the Family, Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, told the programme: "The Aids virus is roughly 450 times smaller than the spermatozoon. The spermatozoon can easily pass through the 'net' that is formed by the condom.

"These margins of uncertainty... should represent an obligation on the part of the health ministries and all these campaigns to act in the same way as they do with regard to cigarettes, which they state to be a danger."

The WHO has condemned the Vatican's views, saying: "These incorrect statements about condoms and HIV are dangerous when we are facing a global pandemic which has already killed more than 20 million people, and currently affects at least 42 million."

The organisation says "consistent and correct" condom use reduces the risk of HIV infection by 90%. There may be breakage or slippage of condoms - but not, the WHO says, holes through which the virus can pass .

Scientific research by a group including the US National Institutes of Health and the WHO found "intact condoms... are essentially impermeable to particles the size of STD pathogens including the smallest sexually transmitted virus... condoms provide a highly effective barrier to transmission of particles of similar size to those of the smallest STD viruses".

http://www.rense.com/general42/dia.htm

You could also ameliorate your ignorance by reading the Wikipedia article on the issue.

I'd certainly advise your learning about an issue before opining.