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Originally Posted by kerry
I don't have much doubt about that on this topic. How many people have died of AIDS in Africa as a result of the RC pushing it's anti-condom policy there? How many women have died as a result of unwanted pregnancies since they can't use birth control. How many women have been put on trial in RC countries for getting abortions? How many gay people have been denied satisfying sexual lives and relationships? How many guilty subversive acts of sex have been engaged in by priests who think celibacy is better but who cant' contain themselves?
What can be more 'Big Brother' than the Pope himself squirming his way into the mind of every Catholic teenager the first time they masturbate?
The Catholic church does a lot of good things, but their social and political policies in this area are about as anti-humanist as they come. And it really irks the bejesus out of me that they defame the name of Aristotle by claiming his authority on this question when he spent a substantial portion of his life living with his girlfriend once his wife died.
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didn't aristotle like the young boys also?
anyway, the church only does "good deeds" as p.r. see mother teresa, who only was interested in baptizing the dying, collecting money for rome, and throwing a few crumbs to everyone else. see christopher hitchens' book about her. or the bbc program.
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