The Pope Blasts Birth Control in Africa

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Clarissa

November 28, 2015

In a typically gushing Popazoid article in the New York Times, there is the following hidden gem of Papal wisdom:

When it came time to speak, Pope Francis delivered his sharpest remarks yet on his first trip to Africa.

He lashed out against what he called “new forms of colonialism, which would make African countries parts of a machine, cogs on a gigantic wheel.” Francis said that “countries are frequently pressured to adopt policies typical of the culture of waste, like those aimed at lowering the birthrate.”

You’ve really got to be a nasty piece of work to arrive in Africa, the continent ravaged by AIDS, rape, and hunger, and condemn birth control. Seriously? Birth control is Africa’s problem? God, what a self-involved, horrible, stupid wanker. And linking birth control to colonialism is just sick.

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8 responses to “The Pope Blasts Birth Control in Africa”

cliff arroyo

November 28, 2015

Africa is the only part of the planet with a fast growing population, set to quadruple within 100 years or so. And the number of well functioning governments is approximately zero (the best are just not as ridiculously horrible as the average).

Being against birth control in Africa is a morally abhorrent position that wants humans to suffer in the name of ideology.

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1. Clarissa
  
  November 28, 2015
  “Being against birth control in Africa is a morally abhorrent position that wants humans to suffer in the name of ideology.”
  
  Exactly! The Pope himself, by the way, is participating in a form of birth control because that helps him professionally. He couldn’t have held his current job if he had children. But now he’s denying the people of Africa the right to better themselves financially and professionally by limiting their reproduction like he limited his own. I call that hypocritical.
  
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Dreidel

November 28, 2015

It’s also ironic that the Pope speaks out against colonialism, since no organization has been more “colonialistic” worldwide than the Catholic Church, in terms of spreading and sternly trying to enforce its doctrines on indigenous populations.

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1. Clarissa
  
  November 28, 2015
  
  Good point. This fellow is such a hypocrite.
  
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  1. Jonathan Mayhew
    
    November 30, 2015
    
    There is only Catholicism in Africa because of colonialism.
    
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    1. Clarissa
      
      December 1, 2015
      
      “There is only Catholicism in Africa because of colonialism.”
      
      Good point.
      
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Shakti

November 29, 2015

This is distinctly Malthusian viewpoint: People keep dying so they need to be replaced in the here and now so souls can be racked up in the afterlife, with not much concern for the quality of the lives on earth. Once there are too many people, the self correcting mechanism of die-offs is not the Church’s concern.

I think he has some weird idea that if he links colonialism which Africans hate to birth control maybe they won’t use birth control? But certain African countries have the highest birth rate in the world anyways. Infant and childhood mortality is very high. Maternal mortality is also very high. You want an idea of what it was like to be a pregnant woman before germ theory was a thing, look at some of these African countries. It’s actually really gross that the Pope is going on about birth control.

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1. Clarissa
  
  November 29, 2015
  
  I think the connection he’s making is something like cultural colonization. The modern colonizers are keeping the people if Africa down by importing their immoral sexual practices, or something. I’m just guessing, though. It might be some other crazy sort of argument.
  
  The Pope is going to Mexico now. I hope he doesn’t forget to voice his ideas about colonialism there, in the heart of a civilization that was destroyed by the Church.
  
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