[lbo-talk] Cardinal Insists Condoms Unsafe Against AIDS

Brian Siano siano at mail.med.upenn.edu
Wed Oct 15 13:21:15 PDT 2003


andie nachgeborenen wrote:


>(Reuters) - The Vatican's top man on family issues
>defended his view Wednesday that the HIV/AIDS virus
>could be spread even if condoms were used but fellow
>cardinals distanced themselves from him. "Relying on
>condoms is like betting on your own death,"
>
Think of Pascal's wager: if you're religious and there's a God, you get Heaven, but if you're not religious and there is, you go to Hell. Therefore, it's better to be religious.

Of course, this presumes that there's only one religion-- there are many _wrong_ ones to choose. So being a Roman Catholic is like betting on your own damnation.



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