What IS good, and how do we determine it?

[Randy Carson]

In the context of this discussion, if you don't want to die of AIDS or catch a disease, then don't have sex with people to whom you are not married.

Is this really so difficult?

You are one morally bankrupt asshole, you know that, Randy?

How am I the bankrupt one when I'm simply saying keep your pants on???

Catholic missionaries in Africa are teaching abstinence and that people shouldn't use condoms because they'll go to hell, knowing that people are going to follow the easy bit of advice and succumb to natural human desires on the harder point.

These people are teaching a doctrine that cannot hope to be followed, thereby dooming people to die who could otherwise easily be saved. It is abhorrent, and you are abhorrent for boiling it down to "just don't have sex, it's that easy."

Meanwhile millions are dying. Fuck you.

Oh. I see how it is. The Catholic Church is teaching people the truth about the intrinsic evil of contraception ALONG WITH the truth that having sex with people you are not married to is immoral and yet, because people embrace the former while ignoring the later, the Church is a fault?

How twisted is that reasoning?

The message is: Sex AFTER marriage. No contraception. NFP when appropriate.