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So instead of adopting a policy that could save lives, its "God's Will" that takes precedent. Seems ass backwards to me, and part of the reason I don't consider myself Catholic anymore.
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This is what caused my father to leave the Church, too. He was born in the 50s and raised as a good Catholic. He went to a Catholic school where he was taught by nuns, was an altar boy, was taught to pray in Latin, the whole deal. As an adult, he was active in his church, attended mass every Sunday, donated the expected percentage of his salary to the collection plate, and volunteered much of his time to help with church functions.
He tried to raise me in a similar fashion, but I lost the faith and rejected the teachings of the Church when I was a teenager, which led to some uncomfortable parent-child interactions. Many years later, my father admitted to me that he was through with the Catholic Church. The final straw, he told me, was that he saw the Vatican as having blood on its hands for purposely spreading lies and misinformation in Africa and other developing areas about the effectiveness of condoms in preventing HIV. He wanted no part of an organization whose actions would lead to the needless deaths of millions.