Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Witch Doctor

It is tragic that the Pope is in Africa telling people not to use condoms. When are people going to wake up and stop listening to witch doctors and charlatans? I count the Pope and all such religious leaders among those groups of con men.

Let's see, the Pope feels his opinion on this is valid, yet he knows nothing about biology, public health, genetics, disease prevention and control, CONDOMS, or even sex. Where does he get the nerve to spout this drivel? Why do people defer to him and even consider his opinion valid on this point? It's as if he were to say you should smoke 10 packs of cigarettes a day because the church recommends it and claims there is no link to disease. Never mind what the medical community says. Never mind what research and reason indicates.

This isn't just wrong, it's outright dangerous and will cause the death of many more people and increase the misery and suffering in a part of the world that certainly doesn't need any more of that.

It's time for people to stop granting respect where it isn't earned or deserved. Africans should be telling him to pack up his medieval attitudes and opinions and get the hell out.