Religions > Atheism > Pope offers prayers for families of millions who died of AIDS in 2007
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30 Nov 2007 09:59:32 PM |
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Pope offers prayers for families of millions who died of AIDS in 2007 |
http://www.catholic.org/international/international_story.php?id=26064
Pope offers prayers for families of millions who died of AIDS in 2007
VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope Benedict XVI offered his prayers for the families
of the estimated 2.1 million people who have died of AIDS this year, and he
asked all people to work to end discrimination against those living with
AIDS and HIV.
At the end of his Nov. 28 general audience, the pope spoke about the Dec. 1
commemoration of World AIDS Day.
"I am spiritually close to those who suffer because of this terrible disease
and their families, especially those who have lost a relative," he said.
"I assure all of them of my prayers," the pope said.
"In addition, I want to exhort all people of good will to multiply their
efforts to stop the spread of the HIV virus, to oppose the scorn which often
strikes those who are afflicted with it and to take care of the sick,
especially when they are still youngsters," he said.
According to figures released Nov. 20 by UNAIDS, "global HIV prevalence --
the percentage of people living with HIV -- has leveled off" and the number
of new infections each year has fallen.
UNAIDS estimated that in 2007 about 33.2 million people were living with
HIV, 2.5 million became infected and 2.1 million died of AIDS.
Sub-Saharan Africa remains the region most affected, with an estimated 22.5
million people infected, it said.
"The number of new HIV infections per year is now estimated to have peaked
in the late 1990s," UNAIDS said, reflecting "natural trends in the epidemic"
as well as greater HIV prevention efforts.
The UNAIDS data estimated that 2.5 million children under the age of 15 were
living with HIV/AIDS, including 420,000 children who contracted the virus in
2007. More than 330,000 children under 15 died of AIDS during this year.
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J Young
jyoungvisions@aol.com
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| User: "Thurisaz, Germanic barbarian" |
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01 Dec 2007 01:00:19 AM |
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Gay Young:
"I am spiritually close to those who suffer because of this terrible
disease and their families, especially those who have lost a relative," he
said.
When asked why his gawd created this disease in the first place and let it
kill innocents, he remained mysteriously silent.
Right?
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"To his friend a man a friend shall prove, and gifts with gifts requite;
But men shall mocking with mockery answer, and fraud with falsehood meet."
(The Poetic Edda)
Must have been written with fundies in mind...
My personal judgment of monotheism:
http://www.carcosa.de/nojebus
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| Title: Re: Pope offers prayers for families of millions who died of AIDS in2007 |
01 Dec 2007 02:45:34 AM |
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On 1 Dez., 04:59, "J Young" <jyoungvisi...@aol.com> wrote:
http://www.catholic.org/international/international_story.php?id=26064
Pope offers prayers for families of millions who died of AIDS in 2007
How about doing something more practical and with more chances of
success?
Tell us, J Young: is this what you'll do every day: copying and
pasting articles from such websites?
Do you seriously think that a site called "catholic.org" has any
chance of being taken seriously here?
Do you enjoy being insulted that much?
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| User: "Frank Mayhar" |
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01 Dec 2007 01:28:56 PM |
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On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 22:59:32 -0500, J Young wrote:
Pope offers prayers for families of millions who died of AIDS in 2007
Prays for the dead, a bit of vanity for those who are past suffering.
And _does nothing_ for the living, who could benefit hugely from even a
little real, physical help.
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Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com http://www.exit.com/
Exit Consulting http://www.gpsclock.com/
http://www.exit.com/blog/frank/
http://www.zazzle.com/fmayhar*
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| User: "ScottyFLL" |
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01 Dec 2007 12:07:57 AM |
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On Nov 30, 10:59 pm, "J Young" <jyoungvisi...@aol.com> wrote:
http://www.catholic.org/international/international_story.php?id=26064
Pope offers prayers for families of millions who died of AIDS in 2007
VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope Benedict XVI
***** him.
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| User: "Olrik" |
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30 Nov 2007 11:17:40 PM |
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On Nov 30, 10:59 pm, "J Young" <jyoungvisi...@aol.com> wrote:
http://www.catholic.org/international/international_story.php?id=26064
Pope offers prayers for families of millions who died of AIDS in 2007
How about money, troll?
He could auction some stuff from the vatican at, well, you know,
Christie's, and give the proceeds to those families.
(Or maybe the money's tied up in all those pedophile cases involving
his priests.)
Or that pope guy could simply say : "Wear condoms". That would help,
and your pope guy could keep his robes and funny hats.
Olrik
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| User: "Uncle Vic" |
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01 Dec 2007 02:10:29 AM |
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One fine day in alt.atheism, "J Young" <jyoungvisions@aol.com> bloodied us
up with this:
Pope offers prayers for families of millions who died of AIDS in 2007
He should instead be praying that all those families don't bond together
and come after him.
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Uncle Vic
aa Atheist #2011
Supervisor, EAC Department of little adhesive-backed "L" shaped
chrome-plastic doo-dads to add feet to Jesus fish department.
Convicted by Earthquack.
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| User: "Thurisaz, Germanic barbarian" |
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01 Dec 2007 11:37:36 PM |
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Uncle Vic:
He should instead be praying that all those families don't bond together
and come after him.
Considering that (according to da wholly babble) a few bronze-age chariots
are enough to defeat it, it'll be in a world of trouble indeed when this
happens.
Assuming its existence, that is.
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"To his friend a man a friend shall prove, and gifts with gifts requite;
But men shall mocking with mockery answer, and fraud with falsehood meet."
(The Poetic Edda)
Must have been written with fundies in mind...
My personal judgment of monotheism:
http://www.carcosa.de/nojebus
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| User: "gps" |
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30 Nov 2007 11:56:14 PM |
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You'd reckon, that if the pope was serious about stopping HIV
infections, he might just say slip a condom on your ***** - instead of
saying just don't have sex - like that's ever gonna work. I just love
the fact that he can say we need to do more to stop the spread of the
disease but avoids the fucking obvious.
And just what does he mean when he says he's close to those that suffer?
And why offer useless prayers when he should be out there handing out
condoms....
Silly dress wearing catholic *****.
g.
J Young wrote:
http://www.catholic.org/international/international_story.php?id=26064
Pope offers prayers for families of millions who died of AIDS in 2007
VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope Benedict XVI offered his prayers for the families
of the estimated 2.1 million people who have died of AIDS this year, and he
asked all people to work to end discrimination against those living with
AIDS and HIV.
At the end of his Nov. 28 general audience, the pope spoke about the Dec. 1
commemoration of World AIDS Day.
"I am spiritually close to those who suffer because of this terrible disease
and their families, especially those who have lost a relative," he said.
"I assure all of them of my prayers," the pope said.
"In addition, I want to exhort all people of good will to multiply their
efforts to stop the spread of the HIV virus, to oppose the scorn which often
strikes those who are afflicted with it and to take care of the sick,
especially when they are still youngsters," he said.
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Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com
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| User: "Ben Kaufman" |
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02 Dec 2007 08:27:11 AM |
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On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 16:56:14 +1100, gps <gps_@hotmail.com> wrote:
You'd reckon, that if the pope was serious about stopping HIV
infections, he might just say slip a condom on your ***** - instead of
saying just don't have sex - like that's ever gonna work. I just love
the fact that he can say we need to do more to stop the spread of the
disease but avoids the fucking obvious.
And just what does he mean when he says he's close to those that suffer?
And why offer useless prayers when he should be out there handing out
condoms....
2003
"...The church is making the claims across four continents despite a widespread
scientific consensus that condoms are impermeable to HIV. .. "
http://www.guardian.co.uk/aids/story/0,7369,1059068,00.html
Ben
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