Prevention: Condom vs Prayer

Pope Franciscus in Mozambique!

One of the poorest countries in the world, Mozambique, was visited by Pope Franciscus recently.

Hundreds of thousands (?) of Faithful are said to have turned out to attend Mass being celebrated by the head of the Roman Catholic Church.

The question rears its ugly head: How many of those faithful were infected by HIV?

How many could be free of the dread disease of AIDS if only that same man, Franciscus, would not, as did his predecessors, continue to forbid the use of condoms during sex?

Sex is, reportedly, the main transporter of the HIV virus.

The use of condoms, so scientists and common sense tell us, would largely prevent this virus from traveling from one partner of sexual relation to the other.

However, the use of condoms would also prevent conception and thereby the eventual birth of another human being.

Stubbornly the Catholic Church, lead by its Popes, still clings to the absurd notion that sex is to be indulged in only for the purpose of procreation, which the wearing of a condom would of course also prevent.

So, a country of approximately 30 Million people, of which about 2.2 Million people suffer from Aids, or at least are HIV infected, must continue to suffer because one man “celebrates a Mass” and “prays” for the suffering, but refuses to urge his adherents to protect themselves and/or his partner from this horrible disease by wearing a protective device.

Here, before you, are two preventatives:

“Prayer”, which, unfortunately, has a worse than extremely poor track record in prevention of sickness and disease, and

“Condoms” which, while probably not fool prove, have a very high probability of success in this prevention.

Come on, Francis, wake up and do the right thing.

Bertstravels

fears that he will not.