(June 20, 2015 at 5:53 am)Stimbo Wrote:(June 19, 2015 at 6:27 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: Oh, of course it is. You "new atheists" believe that religion causes wars, the spread of AIDS (no condoms, remember) and all kinds of bad stuff.
Religion has to be eradicated, right?
What, you mean like Ratzinger stating that condom use aggravates the AIDS crisis in Africa? That "the most effective presence on the front in the battle against HIV/Aids is the Catholic church and her institutions"? Or Archbishop Francisco Chimoio of Mozambique stating in 2007 that European condom manufacturers are deliberately infecting their products with HIV? Nothing harmful about any of that, right?
If someone has AIDS, which is more effective at preventing the spread of the disease: using a condom or abstinence?
If it is the latter, then yes, relying on condoms...with a known failure rate...does provide a false sense of confidence which does aggravate the AIDS crisis.
Let's make this personal, okay? Just to test your resolve.
You meet a nice girl and you go out a few times. Things are progressing nicely on many levels, and intimacy is a possibility. Then she tells you she has AIDS. "But it's okay," she says. "If you use a condom, you probably won't become infected."
Kind of a show-stopper, isn't it?
