Out of Time
The Catholic Church in Ireland sent out two strong reminders this week of how out of touch it is with the modern world. First was the condemnation of the government’s long overdue reduction of “Value Added Tax” (VAT) on condoms. Let me say first of all that I believe that taxing condoms in the first place is wrong. In fact I believe that all contraceptives should be free. However reducing the tax on them is a step, albeit a small one, in the right direction.
Not so says the church. A catholic spokesperson is reported in today’s Irish Times as saying that the church “utterly rejects the use and promotion of condomns”. It is no surprise – its clergy sermonise against them even in Africa where Aids is an epidemic. I suppose its symptomatic of the “kill them all, god will know his own” mentality.
The spokesperson goes on to say “The Church’s teaching is clear: within the sacrament of marriage, the use of condoms as contraceptives is wrong, though there may be mitigating circumstances.” He doesn’t point out what those circumstances may be though.
“Outside of marriage, the use of condoms encourages sexual
activity, which is always gravely sinful. This decision sends
the wrong signal to our young people as the promotion of condoms
promotes promiscuity.”
Really? People will have sex if they want to. The unavailability or unafordability of condoms simply increases the chances of unprotected sex which increases the chances of pregnancy and STD’s. Of course in the church’s view STD’s are god’s punishment for sinning. Makes you wonder why we have these urges in the first place!
Strangely enough there are no diseases associated with paedophelia. Maybe that is god’s official seal of approval. This of course brings me right up to the second reminder of the church’s backwardness. Cardinal Desmond Connell, former archbishop of Dublin, attempted to legally block the archdiocese from handing over documents pertaining to paedophilia among the Dublin clergy during his tenure. This is a stunning example of the gross hypocricy that is rampant in an organisation that still controls most of our schools.
The Catholic church is a sick and twisted organisation and anyone with a shred of moral fibre should disassociate themselves from it. Stop going to mass. Stop giving them money. This is what you support when you do.
… too many, don’t know that they just don’t know …
it is time to read the bible for yourself.
jesus is our high priest …
without all the ornaments or ordinations of respect toward men …
Janeymackers…
Quote:“Outside of marriage, the use of condoms encourages sexual
activity, which is always gravely sinful..”
What encourages sexual activity oblivious to pieces of paper is human nature. Sins are merely imaginary religious mind crimes that don’t exist in the mental make up of those outside the particular religion. This is coming from the same organisation that said it was a sin, punishable by burning at the stake, to eat an egg on a certain “holy” day.