Pope tells Africa "Eat it".

[freydis]

Reuters:

"It (AIDS) cannot be overcome by the distribution of condoms. On the contrary, they increase the problem," he said in response to a question about the Church's widely contested position against the use of condoms.

The disease has killed more than 25 million people since the early 1980s, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa, and some 22.5 million Africans are living with HIV.

His words were some of his most explicit on the use of condoms to stop the spread of AIDS since his election in 2005.

Wow. Now, apparently, the church is on the forefront of science?

*snort*

[phee]

Oh brother....

[Destroit]

This is why I'm protestant, we're able to put a little rubber thingy over the end of our cock so that we don't end up having to sell our kids to science . Bad Monty Python reference...but yeah, it fits sometimes.

[Slogo]

whew.

Glad I'm only Catholic in blood.

Fortunately Agnostics don't have a head guy who thinks science is evil

[TitsMcGee]

I think this is the most irresponsible thing he's said in a long time.

[Scary Guy]

I like wining, wining is fun.

"God thinks, AIDS is a form of punishment"

[candyman]

Oh man they got it all wrong...what we really need to do is keep tossing tons of money, food, and medical shit at Africa because eventually, some of it will stick. At some point the minority of the people that are controlling the resources will run out of room to store all of the supplies and that means that the common people can get their hands on it...

I remember watching a very reliable program on the television that proved large injections of money cures aids...also, large groups of uselss NATO troops and caring people in lab coats seems to help out with things too, even if only to create a random hostage situation to keep things lively...

But, to be serious here...who the hell cares what the Pope says? Unless, and i'm not trying to offend anyone here, you have the brain of a child or have suffered a brain injury you are completely capable of not giving a shit...you could even go as far as to not give TWO shits!

And since when did condoms help AIDS at all?

And, again, who cares?

[Destroit]

I remember watching a very reliable program on the television that proved large injections of money cures aids

I watch said reliable program ALL the time and yes, the cure to HIV/AIDS is an injection of two million dollars cash...it's how Magic Johnson is still alive apparantly .

[candyman]

I watch said reliable program ALL the time and yes, the cure to HIV/AIDS is an injection of two million dollars cash...it's how Magic Johnson is still alive apparantly .

Ah yes...I believe they have plenty of our money laying around over there...say good-bye to aids

And I also got a snapshop of the Pope at the exact moment when he said "eat it" to Africa...

[Rev.Reverence]

whew.

Glad I'm only Catholic in blood.

Fortunately Agnostics don't have a head guy who thinks science is evil

Catholic is not a genetics thing slogo

You mean your parents are Catholic? oK.

I am about fed up with this dumb argument.

The Papacy sux asses! It is not just the Pope..JPII was an alright guy..but he could not get over this one...Benedict is on the OTHER SIDE! I SWEAR! He's got the look of Evil (yeah, I capitalized it)

I think that we should just stop worrying about anything outside our borders...till about 2017-2023.

[Rev.Reverence]

Speaking to reporters on the plane, the Pope said the economic crisis was a product of a "deficit of ethics in economic structures".

"Ethics is something that should not be outside economics, but inside it. The economy does not work if it does not carry an ethical component inside itself," he said.

In his arrival address to President Paul Biya, Benedict called on Christians to tackle violence, poverty, corruption and abuse of power, issues that have continually stifled the continent's progress.

Many in Cameroon have called on the Pope to send a strong message to his host, Biya, who has ruled for over 26 years.

Biya's time in power has been marked by accusations of high-level corruption and human rights abuses. The security forces this week destroyed street-side stalls that provided an income for thousands, in a bid to clean up the city.

Said the Evil Man to the Evil Man.

[Scary Guy]

Benedict is on the OTHER SIDE! I SWEAR! He's got the look of Evil (yeah, I capitalized it)

You're just begging for me to post these aren't you. It's not the other side, it's THE DARK SIDE!

I think that we should just stop worrying about anything outside our borders...till about 2017-2023.

To choose that would be to choose ignorance. We can't stick our heads in the ground and pretend it doesn't exist. That's the job of religion.

[Rev.Reverence]

You're just begging for me to post these aren't you. It's not the other side, it's THE DARK SIDE!

To choose that would be to choose ignorance. We can't stick our heads in the ground and pretend it doesn't exist. That's the job of religion.

Oh...I think America needs to concentrate on feeding starving Americans...healing ailing Americans...making it so that Americans have jobs again...THEN..THEN..we will be WORTHY to police the world..(as well as Medic it)..right now..we have neither the means nor the right to stick our big dumb noses into the world's affairs...perhaps I see America as worse off than the rest...but it IS gettin' pretty fuckin' bad in here.

[candyman]

Oh...I think America needs to concentrate on feeding starving Americans...healing ailing Americans...making it so that Americans have jobs again...THEN..THEN..we will be WORTHY to police the world..(as well as Medic it)..right now..we have neither the means nor the right to stick our big dumb noses into the world's affairs...perhaps I see America as worse off than the rest...but it IS gettin' pretty fuckin' bad in here.

+1...kinda...

I really do want our troops out of Iraq...not because being there is wrong, its just that at the moment I do not feel that we can help them any more. They have shown that they need help, but we can only do so much and now its up to the people to act on their own, fight for their own freedoms, because the sad part is that until someone wipes out the different groups of assholes that want to keep the people down there is not much else to do.

We still have the muscle to do what needs to be done...just not the support it needs. I don't really think that we are any worse then the rest...sure we are all countries but its like holding apples next to watermellons, there are huge differences. The sad part is that nobody is really going to come foreward and say that something somewhere else is bad too. Everything we hear about another country is sugar coated and Europe has always been downplaying their faults. It's really funny, the Obama people have such negative views even though they preach "hope" while most of the other people I meet that do not like Obama actually HAVE hope...

Our nose will always be in other affairs, same with everyone else. What we do in those situation makes the difference. Now, I am going to rip on NATO here but, what have they done? Honestly, there are multiple cases where thousands of NATO troops were surpassed by small American units and hired hands. Seems kinda sad that NATO can toss around all this money and move such a large "military" force yet they accomplish nothing, they actually make it worse if anything.