{"id":636,"date":"2011-07-28T10:16:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T10:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2011\/07\/bad-news-for-hells-population-planning-ministry-of-truth\/"},"modified":"2014-12-31T13:35:28","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T20:35:28","slug":"bad-news-for-hells-population-planning-ministry-of-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2011\/07\/bad-news-for-hells-population-planning-ministry-of-truth.html","title":{"rendered":"Bad News for Hell&#8217;s Population Planning Ministry of Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>A reader writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Good news! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecatholicthing.org\/columns\/2011\/zimbabwes-surprising-aids-success.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The HIV infection rate in Zimbabwe has decreased \u2013 plummeted, even!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s because of changing behaviour, not condom use! So, let\u2019s hear it from the world\u2019s media\u2026<\/p>\n<p>[crickets]<\/p>\n<p>And, given that the population is well over 90% non-Catholic, the Scarlet Woman of Rome\u2019s refusal to allow condoms was never an issue in the first place.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The whole \u201cPope kills millions of AIDS victims\u201d thing is just so brainless.  So some guy in Timbuctu is just about to commit his thousandth act of fornication and suddenly pauses, thinking, \u201cBut the Pope said not to use a condom!\u201d  So in holy deference to Mother Church, he commits fornication, but without a condom.  I think that\u2019s even dumber than \u201cMarried priests will cure homosexual assaults on children.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reader writes: Good news! The HIV infection rate in Zimbabwe has decreased \u2013 plummeted, even! And it\u2019s because of changing behaviour, not condom use! So, let\u2019s hear it from the world\u2019s media\u2026 [crickets] And, given that the population is well over 90% non-Catholic, the Scarlet Woman of Rome\u2019s refusal to allow condoms was never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bad News for Hell&#039;s Population Planning Ministry of Truth<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A reader writes:Good news! The HIV infection rate in Zimbabwe has decreased \u2013 plummeted, even!And it\u2019s because of changing behaviour, not condom use! 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