I once translated a video for a small Catholic church community. It was in Spanish. I had to do the sub-titles. This priest was telling people to report to the church before going to the cops with any allegations levied at church staff involving children. Basically telling the congregation to come to the church before going to the cops.

So considering that swell advice, I guess telling Africa to be abstinent is just par for the course.

Oh and: All religion is evil. (People don't do good because of religion. They're just good people.) I WOULD say Satan created religion, but, well, you know. . .

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I mean, is he not just truly scary looking? Like night-light scary looking?

Yeah, Mr. Cook. Nicely done. I look forward to the night terrors and the smell of burning horse hair later.

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Wake me when there's a Goosebumps movie.

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This post is innaccurate and offensive in so many ways, I don't even know where to begin, and I don't even consider myself to be Catholic anymore. But hell, I guess I'd better explain at least two points.

1.) The Pope was not speaking in a capacity where the doctrine of infallibility applied. A quick google search or check of Wikipedia would have given you that one.

2.) The Pope's argument against condoms was that encouraging the use of condoms could also encourage promiscuity, which would raise the risk of the disease spreading. It wasn't just condoms = evil. Furthermore, it should be no surprise to anyone that the Roman Catholic Church is against birth control. This isn't exactly news, and no one has to follow it except Catholics, who shouldn't be having sex outside of marriage anyway, and so theoretically shouldn't be catching HIV. Most Catholics I know who throw out the premarital sex bit also throw out the condom bit, so I wouldn't worry too much about those ones.

3.) The bishop in question had his excommunication revoked for reasons that have nothing to do with Holocaust denial. Holocaust denial is not an excommunicable offense. Does it make you a nice person? No. But theologically, that's the way it is. Did the Vatican need better PR handling on it? Sure. But it's hardly evidence that the Pope supports Holocaust denial.

4.) I enjoy the fact that you've ignored everything liberals would love about the Pope's trip to Africa. He condemned violence and war, and sexual violence against women. He has encouraged African leaders to fight poverty. He urged solidarity among nations to more equally distribute resources with the world's poor. He praised democracy and defended the equal dignity of men and women, encouraging laws to be enacted to ensure this if necessary.

But yeah, you know, why acknowledge any of that. Pope evil. End of story.

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I had to.

So it didn't happen.

Duh.

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