I hate to say it so publicly – it is after all so very un-British to assert my opinon against any person/thing – but I’m going to say it anyway…
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS A MASSIVE PILE OF SHITE. AND THE POPE IS A TWAT.
As I have blogged about previously, the UN has been working towards a set of goals to significantly reduce extreme poverty, violence and the spread of disease since 2000. These goals are called the Millennium Development Goals. They are awesome because they are possible, practical and sustainable. They are based on the idea of educating people and improving healthcare.
If you haven’t/don’t want to read my previous blogs about these MDGs, please take a look at the following fast-track lessons in women’s rights. I’m going to call it Lady-Maths for short.
1.
Woman + education = chance of financial independence
Woman + chance of financial independence = reduction of patriarchal rule
Woman + education = emotional independance
Woman + emotional independence = reduction of patriarchal rule
Woman + reduction of patriarchal rule = significant move towards equal citizenship for women across the world!!
2.
Women + better reproductive healthcare = reduction of gender-based mythology that sustains the belief that women are victims of their own sex, prone to death by simply being a woman and giving birth, contracting sexual infections etc.
Women + better sexual education = reduction of gender-based mythology that sustains the belief that women are sexually passive, reduction of unwanted pregnancy, reduction of sexually transmitted infections and diseases and increased awareness and prosecution of sexual assaults.
3.
People + better healthcare = reduction in spread of diseases and, of course, reduction in general pain and suffering
Get it? Good.
So this is what the Holy See has to say about this amazing strategy:
“It is important to underline that the goals (MDGs) will not be attained without activating two great moral imperatives,” Secretary for Relations with States Dominique Mamberti told the General Assembly. “On the one hand it is necessary that rich and emerging countries fully realize their aid commitments for development and immediately set up a functioning financial and commercial network favourable to the weaker countries.
“On the other all, rich and poor, must ensure an ethical turn in politics and economy that guarantees good government and eliminates every form of corruption. Otherwise, there is the risk of arriving in 2015 with only insufficient results, except perhaps – and that would be sad and paradoxical – in the fields of population control and promotion of minority lifestyles, which have been introduced in some paragraphs in the recent summit’s document.
“In that case the MDGs will have become a veritable fraud for the integral human development of peoples.”
Apparently using condoms and not executing someone for being gay is a veritable fraud for the integral development of peoples.
And there I was thinking that the encouragement of public stoning was halting our development as people and that HIV should probably be discouraged seeing as, you know, it eventually kills you.
Seriously, read this article, but it will make you angry…
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=36290&Cr=mdg&Cr1=
And to think that our taxes paid for the bloody Pope to fly over to the UK and preach his shit…
If religion is your thing, that’s great – I’m all for supporting community and being nice – but I will never support this kind of institutionalised prejudice and the rationalised hate that the Catholic church promotes.
I AM MY OWN WIFE. 