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Originally Posted by Jenson71
Hamas,
The Catholic Church also forbids sex until marriage. Wouldn't listening to the Catholic Church's position on this lessen the spread of HIV? Why do people listen to the Church when they say "Don't use condoms" but not "Save sex for marriage."
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That's the same kind of ridiculous excuse that prompts people to champion abstinence only programs.
If you don't have sex, nothing bad can happen.
Of course, that completely ignores the fact that the sex drive is a completely healthy and natural part of the human animal that is almost impossible to overcome.
People will have sex. It's a fact of life.
The leaders of the Church should be intelligent enough to understand that, but they are too inured to their dogma. If they would at the very least promote an ABC philosphy (which itself is flawed but better than nothing), they could save a lot of lives.
Granted, the above is somewhat of a tangential issue...but if you haven't been taught the importance of safe sex, and given the fact that sex WILL happen often irrespective of religion, it's extremely naive to believe that people who haven't been taught to protect themselves will.