Quote:
Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
"Truth is not determined by a majority vote."
-Cardinal Ratzinger (now known as Pope Benedict XVI)
But seriously, the Pope will have to wake up to reason eventually. I understand the moral issue he takes with condoms, but it's about the disease here.... I mean, come on.
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He won't. He's a shitty pope, and he represents the more conservative side of the Catholic church. Believe it or not, there are plenty more liberal, reasonable thinkers in Catholicism, but Pope John Paul II's lengthy term allowed him to stack the college of cardinals with conservatives and those conservatives then elected Ratzinger - who was literally the person I declared as the
worst option when this was all going down. All of the potential for a more progressive Catholicism that was laid down during Vatican II (intentionally or not, and it's debatable, but the foundation was there) has been almost completely undone by the likes of JPII and Benedict.
It's nice and all that the Catholic church does a lot of work dealing with poverty, and does not demand religious allegiance in order to receive that aid in the way many fundamentalist protestant groups do, but when you've got such a backwards view of the AIDS issue, it's really terrible and works to undo any good that has gone on.