The church is revising their stance on condoms
 

The pope is reviewing the church's stance on the use of condoms. With AIDS spreading faster and faster, they are now going over the bible to see if there might be loophole of sorts to allow the use of condoms afterall.
I personally am glad that they are finally slowly starting to admit that they are wrong, it's a good start.
What are your thoughts about this?

Havoc

It's about time. The Church should be concerned with things that actually matter, like the War On Terror, poverty, or Gnostiphilia. Not performing biblically unsupported obstructions of science and life saving technologies.

At long last. All it needs to do know is look for loopholes in every other current aspect of the Bible that's disputed.

Alcar...

My thoughts... who cares? A good start... to where exactly? Rubbish.

In related news, I MAY in the NEAR FUTURE change my mind and start using OVEN GLOVES when removing HOT food from an OOOOVEN.

Just thought you should know.

Who cares? Perhaps the hundreds of millions of Catholics who listen to what the Vatican says and may potentially now be able to prevent AIDS. Or the many priests, nuns and missionaries in the third world who have been giving out condoms anyway but now don't have to feel guilty about it.

Don't be ridiculous.

The news that the Pope is thinking about changing the Catholic stance on contraceptives (which doesn't exactly tie in with the new guy's plans to get back to ol' Catholic values - like witch-hunts) is hardly world-changing stuff. Though of course some would want to hype it that way.

If you're foolish enough to actually take note of that crap (about contraceptives, not the entire Christian faith) then I don't care if you get AIDs or not. C’est la vie!

And actually, as a genuine question as I have no idea, how strict is this within the Catholic faith anyway? I doubt it is that highly-regarded a thing, especially considering there’s potentially going to be a shift on the matter. I don’t believe that if the Pope came out onto the balcony to wave a tentacle and proclaim that condoms are now A-okay that the AIDs problem, or any other sexual business would be greatly affected.

Basically you're saying that because you're not Catholic, you don't care. It's not world-changing stuff for you but it is world changing stuff for the many strict-practising Catholics out there. Clearly you can't relate to someone actually believing in anything. Therefore, I prescribe forceful removal of the cranium from the anus in which it has become lodged followed by a gaffer-taping of its lips.

A Monk, living in a monestary (no duh), is called up by his head monk, He is greeted by the head monk.
"What is it, father?," the monk askes. The Father puts his hand on his shoulder.
"Son," he says, "It is high time that we re-wrote the old Books, the current parchment is getting too old and crumpy. Anyway, we want you to copy the old books down, it is a great honor."
So the monk goes and gets the old books and is about to copy when he realizes that the version he has is a copy...The monk scuttles back up to the head monk.
"What is wrong, my son?" the head monk asks.
"Well, father," the monk replies, "I was just about to re-write and all, when I noticed that the version I was copying from was a copy too."
"Yes," the head monk says, "What is your point?"
"My point is," said the monk, "Is that maybe our version isn't accurate."
"Point noted," said the head monk, "I shall go down to the library, find the
originals, and compare to see if it is indeed accurate."
So the head monk goes down to the library, and is in there for hours. The other monks are starting to get worried, so they go down into the library to search for him. After wading through hundreds and hundreds of parchments, they come across the head monk, crying in the corner.
"What is wrong, father?" asked the monk, "What did you learn?"
The head monk looks up at the monk, tears streaming down his face.
"The word...is...



CELEBRATE"

Good job.
Actually, no way does Pope Benedict change his stance on this, he is a hard liner. Missionaries and church workers still lie about condoms in developing nations. See this link. http://www.guardian.co.uk/aids/story...059068,00.html
You can dig around and find many others like it saying that condoms don't prevent the spread of diseases.
In short, Catholic church authorities have their heads up their asses on this issue and nothing will change.

No, I'm saying that it is an utterly ridiculous belief and anybody who gives it merit is a complete fool. Which is slightly different from just being an ignorant, intolerant idiot, which you're basically accusing me of being.

You can't go through this world 'respecting' every belief people have. Christians believe in God and all that high-jinks. Fine, whatever pops their cork. Some Christians think using a condom is a sin. That's pure idiocy and I can call it out as such. :rolleyes: I think the relief or indignation this potential decision can bring to such fools incredibly, overwhelmingly unimportant.

Although the spiel about the anus and cranium sounded really good.

The most devout catholics I have known have been promiscuous condom users. Really confused me up. Though, 80% of them were South American.

Oh man... I don't get it.

Edit: Oh wait, I think I do.

celibate...celebrate...

So it says something like 'you must be celebrate?'

Maybe I'm thinking too much into this...

no, I thought the exact same thing...but you know how it is with old languages

I have a joke...

Modern Religion!

Buddum dum TSH!

Haha, yes. They're called "cults".

*worships Hobo as messiah*