Pope Says Condoms Make AIDS Worse
 

from The Advocate<bangs head against table>

I often trust the Pope for my scientific analyses.

To paraphrase the recent episode of South Park: "he is re-tar-ded"

Idiot. I'm sorry, the Pope is a butthead.

Now now guys, we all know the Pope is infallible so let's run the numbers:

1 in 1,000: Chance to contract aids during unprotected vaginal sex

6 in 100: Chance of contracting aids with a condom (relative to unprotected)

So, let's say we have a population of 1,000,000 HIV positives getting busy with non infected partners.

You could expect:

1,000 New cases of HIV if they all have unprotected sex.

60 New cases of HIV if they all use condoms.

So in order for the popes claim to work, enough couples need to choose abstinence over sex simply because they do not have access to a condom.

We can only have 60,000 couples having unprotected sex or we get more cases of HIV, so that implies that out of our original 1,000,000 couples ~940,000 of them must opt out of sex due to not having a condom.

Sure, that makes sense.

I saw this yesterday and thought " this guy is truly an idiot!" especially when you add in some of the other hair brained things he's come up with! I'm sure Africa is thrilled to have him there for the first pontiff visit :rolleyes:

Well, he's right. If everybody had sex the way he thinks it should be had then it would be a more reliable block to spreading AIDS than condom use.

Sure, it is stupid public policy but religion generally isn't in the business of telling you how best to sin.

This goes beyond idiocy and into criminal atrocity.

Once again, the Catholic Church illustrates that they are profoundly out of touch with just about everything. Is this latest comment of his about condoms any surprise? No. It's been the church's stance for a long time, even in the 80's when HIV/AIDS was discovered and was killing hundreds of thousands of people. The man is an idiot. But I also believe that even many Catholics disagree with him on this one.

The Pope says it, it MUST be true!