Righteous anger at the self-righteous
Stories like this, about how the churches in Madagascar and working in conjunction with the AIDS virus to kill as many people as possible make me incredibly furious.
"I am firmly opposed to the use of the condom as a means of fighting AIDS, because it promotes promiscuity," Armand Razafimahefa, until August the head of the country's protestant church, told AFP.
Seriously, what is it going to take to get the "Christians" of the world to realize that if you think that promoting death is a lesser evil than promoting promiscuity, then your priorities are seriously screwed up?
I guess nothing will work. Since it first came on the scene, AIDS has been greeted with open arms by so-called Christians who saw it as a gift from God to punish gays and other people with sex lives they disapprove of. It's been a boon--murdering infidels yourself is frowned upon in modern times, so it's hard to find a way to threaten people with death if they don't fall in line. And they are not about to let a thin piece of rubber come between them and their new weapon in the war against sinners.
posted by Amanda Marcotte at
7.10.04
2 Comments:
Well, I suppose if you believe in the afterlife, death isn't a big deal. Shortening a life from 70 years to 30 (say) is an infinitesmal drop in eternity. Everyone's going to die anyway: the real action is what happens afterwards.
Reminds me of a bumper sticker I saw: "I vote Democrat because life doesn't end at birth." Sometimes I wonder if self-righteousness isn't just a way of getting over guilt for a lot of self-righteous types. The most frequently cited example is of the comparatively high incidence of homophobes who are closeted gays, but it probably has wider applications. (I doubt all examples are as neat as that, with the thing that they self-righteously oppose being the same thing that they guiltily practice: self-righteous condemnation of promiscuity might be a way of covering guilt about, say, being an embezzler, not necessarily guilt about being promiscuous.)
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