English is not my native language, I’m sorry for any misspellings.
Why did the Pope was against using condoms? Friend of mine went to Africa and he was shocked from the priests who were telling people to not use condoms and if they did they are going to hell!!!
We all know that condoms protect us from many many danger dissases, why would the Pope who supposed to be wise and thinking guy say such thing?
Well:
1- the condom and other artificial contraccception prevents the act of sexuality to beh aimed at it’s final purpose: reproduction
2- NOT that sex ought to be for reproduction only and not for pleasure. Sex can be for pleasure to, but without impairing the natural final end.
3- It is NOT necessary that every sexual act leads to a certain or possible pregnancy. There are very EFFECTIVE natural methods.
For example the Cirghton Model (
creightonmodel.com/) which appears to be 96.8% effective.
These Natural Methods do not go against the common nature of the sexual act but take advantage of the femake reproductive cycle itself. So it is within the human nature itself we find the solution, not outside of it. So the final end of the sexual act is not excluded, simply the (female) body will not acheive it since it is in the infertile period.
Also there are other advantages.
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Regarding AIDS/HIV:
People say the Church condemns people to get infected but study prove the contrary.
The catholic african countries, like Uganda, where the Chruch is most active,
are the countries with leas HIV patients in Africa! (except muslim countries, but
because in muslim countries there are strict rules where people can have only one sexual partner (or in some places a few wives) and not ‘screw around’ and fornication and adultery are severily punished!)
The great successes like in Uganda, where AIDS has dropped inmmensely compared to the other countries is the ABC method (Abstinence, Faithfulness, Condom).
Here the Church promotes especially the first 2: Abstinece for non married people and being Faithful for married people. Also it fight superstitions like ‘having sex with a virgin will cure you’ perpetrated by some shamans.
By doing this the Church effectively EDUCATES people to be responsible and prevent spreading of HIV.
In other countries where condoms are distributed by the truckload HIV has not dropped a bit!
First many people refuse to use them anyway. Second condoms can and do fail, especially in places where the temperature can be up to 50 *C (122 *F) in the shade and there is no Airco. Third condoms are ‘reliable’ when used correctly and ONCE… this does not always happen even in Europe or US!
(more is explained here:
catholic.com/magazine/articles/uganda-the-real-abc%E2%80%99s-of-an-epidemic)
Promoting condoms promotes promiscuous behavior, which is the CAUSE of the spreading of AIDS in the first place.
As I said: take Muslim countries: they have a less HIV infection rate than western countries even (or very comparable) because there promiscuous behavior is severely prohibited and punished.
(See:
images.quickblogcast.com/1/2/3/8/6/277163-268321/AIDSmap.png)
Western countries get by, but recently AIDS is on the rise again.
