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Now, to play devil's advocate, if the people with AIDs were following the Catholic Church's teachings it wouldn't have been spread so fast and might never have become an epidemic. It's harder to blame the Pope for causing the problem when it's fairly obvious the relevant individuals are not listening to him anyway.
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I'm not blaming the pope for causing the problem, just for fanning its flames -- or at least preventing people from slowing it down. When it comes to AIDS, the relevant individuals include more than just the people on the street spreading infection who don't listen to the pope. The government of Brazil and missionary hospitals in Africa, just to name two highly relevant groups, DO listen to the pope. When he and his predecessor told them not to hand out condoms, they didn't hand out condoms.
If the new policy was right in 2010, my guess is that it was also right in 1982. I have to quote a '60s folk song here: How many deaths will it take till he knows that too many people have died? For the pope, I guess the answer is roughly 25 million (with a lot more to come).
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