The headline doesn’t make sense? How about “Seat belts increase the problem of traffic accidents”? No? Okay, I dare you to get your head around this one:
His Peculiarity Pope Benedict XVI is on holiday in Africa, and his message to the continent where AIDS kills 1.5 million people and turns 11.6 million children into orphans each year is:
“HIV/Aids is a tragedy that cannot be overcome through the distribution of condoms, which can even increase the problem.”
Uh, right.
So condoms increase the problem of HIV? Well, maybe if you don’t know how to use them, which I’m pretty sure Herr Ratzinger doesn’t. His solution to the problem: a “spiritual and human awakening” and “friendship for those who suffer”.
I guess the one who really needs some serious awakening is the Pope himself, who, by the way, looks suspiciously similar to what I would imagine the Devil to look like, if I believed in the Devil, which I don’t although when I look at Benedict XVI I’m seriously tempted to reconsider my beliefs. But I digress.
Honestly, if Christianity is all about protecting tiny blobs of cells that might grow to seriously harm or even kill the womb that carries them, and at the same time prohibiting grown human beings to protect themselves from disease just so that we can offer them our sympathies when they suffer and die, then I want nothing to do with it, nothing whatsoever.
Christianity as we know it isn’t even interested in stopping the suffering of people, never has been, never will be, because it thrives when – and only when – people suffer.
Jesus must be spinning in his grave. Oh wait…
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