Sometimes only a few words are enough to give you a sense of what I feel about people such as the head of the Catholic Church in Mozambique, who recently had this to say about condoms:

"Condoms are not sure because I know that there are two countries in Europe, they are making condoms with the virus on purpose," he alleged, refusing to name the countries.

Archbishop Francisco Chimoio claimed some anti-retroviral drugs were also infected "in order to finish quickly the African people".

My three word opinion of this man? The first thing that came to my head while I was reading the story, reported by the BBC, was, "You fucking twat". And I'd gladly say that to his face. Cretins like this are the reason that people don't use condoms, then because they still want sex, and still have sex, they are unprotected, and infect each other. More people are dead because of the Catholic Church's stubborn refusal to accept that it is human nature to fuck when they feel like it - abstinence programs DO NOT WORK, and if the Church is saying that condoms are wrong, that leaves horny young people with time on their hands ready to risk their lives, just because the Pope says so.

Okay, tell people that abstinence is the only sure way to avoid catching sexually transmitted diseases, but have some common sense: tell them that if they must have sex, to use a condom. However the Catholic doctrine is that condoms are totally forbidden... which just leaves the strong urge to have sex, competing with the ability to abstain when you're feeling frisky, because God says so. I know which urge I'd put my money on to win every time.

But this is worse. This man is actually putting the blame on the condom manufacturers themselves, accusing the very companies whose products would help to prevent the spread of the disease, saying that they are intentionally infecting their own condoms with the HIV virus.

The claim is of course ludicrous. Even if you tried to do what this idiotic Catholic moron claims, the virus would not live outside the human body for anywhere near long enough for it to be able to survive the manufacturing process, be taken from the factory, transported overseas (he said these were foreign condoms), be distributed to local retailers, be bought by the person using them, hang around in their box/packet for further hours if not days, and then somehow, miraculously, still be a live, infectious virus when used during sex. Total madness.

Archbishop Francisco Chimoio, in case you missed it the first time, you're a fucking twat. Or at least you would be if you weren't celibate.

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Links:
Shock at archbishop condom claim (BBC)
Mozambique's fear-monger (LA Times)