Starving Third World Masses Warned Against Evils Of Contraception
Pope John Paul II declared yesterday to be "World Childbirth Day". (I know, I missed it too...) The Catholic Church responded to the glut of poverty and suffering with it's usual bromides against...contraception.
In Calcutta, a city where 53 percent of residents are under 18, Catholic missionaries delivered a similar message of love and procreation.
"In this life, there is a right path and a wrong path, and which you take is entirely up to you," said missionary Christopher Halloran, addressing a group of 4,500 villagers crammed into a schoolhouse. "Will you deny God's wisdom by using condoms, or will you shine in the divine light of unprotected sex? The choice is clear."
"God does not want you to choke the rivers of fertile bounty with immoral birth-control pills," continued Halloran, framed by a backdrop of brown, withered crops and skeletal, half-living farm animals. "He wants you to continue expanding your families. If your babies starve, Jesus will forgive them."
Well, I suppose if you have nothing to offer, anything sounds good, eh?
