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Wednesday, September 26, 2007

More on religion

Two posts in one day!? Anyone would think I'm having a rush of opinions..!

Today, I saw this story, about gay bishops not being allowed in the USA's Episcopal Church.

The part that surprises me most is that they 'made the decision after a six-day meeting'. I thought religion was supposed to be about individual beliefs?

It quite upsets me when religion causes this much bother. Why can't people just believe, and respect each other's beliefs?

It also upsets me that the Catholic church is so against homosexuality. What happened to loving thy neighbour? People can't help who they fall in love with.

Protection from...?

It's been a while...

Today I read this story. It's upset me because the Archbishop's comments about 'infected' condoms are completely unfounded. It states he was 'refusing to name the countries' that the infected condoms come from.

It strikes me that this man is using his position of influence to scare the population of his home country into abstaining from sex at younger ages and before marriage, which is what he believes to be the teaching of the religion he follows.

I believe that when the people of Mozambique hear this, they will be fearful of condom use, and will continue to have sex anyway, but unprotected, therefore worsening the HIV crisis.

Why must religion be used so badly?