tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post7271118719305645394..comments2024-03-28T09:36:30.991+00:00Comments on David Lindsay: These Simple, Simple SoulsDavid Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-60912720576950396512010-11-26T00:01:07.580+00:002010-11-26T00:01:07.580+00:00Dear David, you should know that I am very fond of...Dear David, you should know that I am very fond of you, and respect you greatly. But whoever this character Black is, he's talking out of his backside. <br /><br />It is not good enough to say 'malaria kills more than HIV'. For the first time in decades, a pope has declared that condoms can be used by sexual partners in order to prevent the spread of diseases such as HIV. Malaria might kill more people that AIDS, but condoms have never been suggested as a a form of protection against malaria.<br /><br />If it is now the position that it's OK to use condoms in some situations but not others, when the previous position was absolute prohibition, one really is entitled to know just how far the now recognised exceptions extend. That it's a pity that the existence of these exceptions couldn't have been more widely publicised in 1980, a few hundred thousand corpses ago, shall pass without comment. The flocking, smells and bells, groupthink approach just won't work any more, if only because Catholic married people like me might just be entitled to ask 'If it's good enough for the hoors and the rent boys, why isn't it good enough for me?'Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11219870920638914624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-26517946729424023452010-11-25T18:10:47.856+00:002010-11-25T18:10:47.856+00:00"...the sex lives of Africans are of consider..."...the sex lives of Africans are of considerable interest to a Western mindset increasingly obsessed with ensuring that the wretched of the earth adjust to present conditions."<br /><br />Boy is that ever true. People always talk about the Catholic Church being obsessed with sex, but in reality much of the Church’s loudness on sexual matters is a response to the loud, bizarre sex obsessions of others.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com