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Originally Posted by Burninator
Operation Christmas isn't a perfect charity. But just to play devils advocate for a bit here. What happens to the children that are converted to Christianity and are told that condom use is a sin? Last time I check Africa is sort of having an AIDS problem.
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Great point...
My contention is that they already 'know' they're sinning by having sex outside of marriage. So if they're going to do it, why not use a condom?
If they can't figure that out, then Darwin is at work.
As for whether they should be using condoms when married to keep one person clean, I don't know. Except that by the time someone gets married, they should have enough life experience to question religion or at least some of it's rules.
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Funny how little people know about the religions or groups they try to discuss/debate.
The issue of contraception is only something conservative Catholics advocate (cue Monty Python: "every sperm is sacred!") One of the goals of the Evangelical (hence not Catholic) groups attached to OCC is to stop the spread of the Aids epidemic in Africa and third world countries via education on abstinence or condom usage. Many protestant Christian families do use contraception...
The stuff Burninator and 4x4 are talking about doesn't exist in any Christian religion and just seems like more myth that people who don't know much about religion make up about it. Then again, the entire issue of abstinence and no sex before marriage...actually isn't even in the Bible! The Catholic fears of contraception are based on interpretations of life being sacred...and I have no idea what this "keep the other person clean" stuff 4x4 is talking about. A lot of religious beliefs, dogma, and rules that people believe exist in that specific religion don't really have any theological basis...and are more a product of culture and interpretation that people need to question and investigate more often.