So strangely enough quite a few of you have been asking me what happened to my blog. I say quite a few of you, I mean four of you. Still. Anyway, here you go:
So the pope doesn’t understand how condoms work. Ah well. This first little gem of catholic dogma first became apparent to me a few years ago when some friends I had at the local convent school told me that they weren’t allowed to raise money for Comic Relief because part of what they do is fund contraception education in Africa – places that really need it because it is the continent that is home for some two thirds of all the people living with AIDS. It struck me as bat shit crazy then, and I still find it pretty bonkers. What is more immoral, using contraception or recommending people don’t use condoms in regions of the world where about 500% more people are living with HIV/AIDS than in Western Europe? I’ll leave that one hanging. So last week everyone’s favourite former Nazi Youth member Pope Benedict XVI said that "the traditional teaching of the Church has proven to be the only failsafe way to prevent the spread of HIV/Aids", and that condoms actually made the problem worse. Well I can't think of a better person to take sex advice from. In the same speech, he went onto identify saturated fat as a quick and cheap cure for heart disease. That last bit is a lie, but he bloody might has well have done for all its scientifically provable, medical incorrectness. In a country where one fifth of the population (over 85 million people) is Roman Catholic that is just a tad irresponsible. I see him as a bit like a really old relative set in his ways (Granddad just said what about asian people?), who you can’t just write off (he is family afterall), you still don’t take too much notice of, because like, he’s a bit out of touch. Similie exhausted? Next paragraph coming right up.
It seems like the Bishop of Rome waits before every major religious festival to come out with a typically medieval corker. A few days before Christmas he said something about how gays were destroying the rainforest – ok, he didn’t quite put it like that, he said that the blurring of the definition between man and woman was as big a threat to the world as deforestation was. I mention this because it is not all bad news, he is clearly mellowing. Look at this picture of the Pope with the President of Cameroon Paul Biya and his wife, Chantal.
Now I am not saying that Chantal is a tranny, but what I am saying is that she looks uncannily like 80s drag queen Divine.
Chantal
Divine
And on that bombshell, I don't really know what else to say.

3 comments:
i especially like the bit in the labels section where it says "divine gay HIV pope".
has a nice titular ring to it.
I will become Catholic the day those three adjectives align to describe the pontiff.
You do know Benedict ran the Inquisition before becoming pope?
Ok it was renamed 'Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faithful' a long time ago, but you know...
I remain - somehow - a full member of the RC Church. Hmm.
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