{"id":60,"date":"2003-10-09T11:29:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-09T16:29:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-10-09T11:29:00","modified_gmt":"2003-10-09T16:29:00","slug":"43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/43","title":{"rendered":"Could someone please explain this to me?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is at this moment that I shall step up on soapbox marked &quot;Organized Religion&quot;.&nbsp; This one is radically different from the one generically marked only &quot;Religion&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>I would like to send a great big &quot;<a href=http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/aids\/story\/0,7369,1059068,00.html target=top><i><b>FUCK YOU, YOU IGNORANT, CONTROLLING, PRIMITIVE SCREWHEADS!<\/a><\/i><\/b>&quot; to the catholic church, it&#8217;s leaders, the pope and every toady little fucker in a pointy hat that operates beneath him.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, what the fuck is this all about?&nbsp; I&#8217;ll tell you what.&nbsp; It&#8217;s another case of the catholic church turning its eyes away from the blazing torch and claiming that there is only darkness, just so it can continue to further its own agenda.&nbsp; Anyone who doesn&#8217;t agree with them is going to burn in hell because they aren&#8217;t following <b>The Rules<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>They are poking their finger in the chest of sound, proven medical research and saying that it is wrong.&nbsp; Not only that, they are poisoning the minds of their own flock into believing that condoms, the only proven method to help prevent the spread of HIV excluding abstinence, is not only a bad thing to do from a catholic\/birth control aspect, but is also ineffective and <i>more<\/i> dangerous than not using a condom at all.<\/p>\n<p>Excuse me?&nbsp; Would you care to run that by me again?&nbsp; Did your god tell you this Johnnie-boy?&nbsp; Are we going through some sort of Old Testament phase again?&nbsp; Is your god angry at the new and improved Sodom and Gomorrah that the world has become today \u2013 gonna\u2019 turn us into pillars of salt is he?&nbsp; I guess that wearing a condom is the metaphorical version of looking back, then.<\/p>\n<p>They are preaching this far and wide.&nbsp; They are telling the world, but especially those 42 million people currently infected with HIV that if they are catholic, and they use a condom that they are acting against god&#8217;s will.<\/p>\n<p>Look, this is taking fundraising entirely too far.&nbsp; I can understand the twisted logic behind &quot;build a bigger financial base through sheer volume of contributors&quot;, but this is too much.&nbsp; Guess what?&nbsp; If your constituency starts dying off, you start losing money.<\/p>\n<p>Cripes, they&#8217;re almost as bad as the christian scientists.&nbsp; But that is a blog for another day.<\/p>\n<p>This sort of crap makes my human soul feel very tired.&nbsp; It&#8217;s as though there is a prohibition of base sanity in the world, and I&#8217;m one of the bootleggers.&nbsp; Well, let&#8217;s all go to the gin joint for a drink before they kick in the doors and crack open all the barrels.<\/p>\n<p>*steps off of soapbox, lights a torch and wanders off into the darkness*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is at this moment that I shall step up on soapbox marked &quot;Organized Religion&quot;.&nbsp; This one is radically different from the one generically marked only &quot;Religion&quot;. 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