{"id":3335,"date":"2009-03-19T21:15:17","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T02:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=3335"},"modified":"2009-03-19T21:15:17","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T02:15:17","slug":"the-pope-must-be-doing-something-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-pope-must-be-doing-something-right\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pope must be doing something right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because he has managed to upset the UN, Planned Parenthood, the Times, the Telegraph &#8211; actually every major newspaper &#8211; with his <a href=\"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/18\/the-pope-aids-and-planned-parenthood\/\" target=\"_blank\">remarks<\/a> about the ineffectiveness of using condoms to combat Aids.<\/p>\n<p>Is his contention that fidelity and abstinence are the only effective ways to combat Aids true?<\/p>\n<p>Using a condom correctly reduces the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rho.org\/html\/hiv_aids_special_focus-condoms.htm\" target=\"_blank\">risk of contracting Aids by<\/a> 80%.<\/p>\n<p>So, if we take 100 HIV infected, sexually active people, consistently using condoms correctly, who have sex once a month with a new person, who in turn do the same, at the end of one year we would end up with 100 x 1.2^11 = 743 people infected with HIV. In 10 years, we would have 264,000,000,000. I admit, all the people involved would have to be somewhat energetic and enterprising, and I am using a 100% infection rate for the 20% condom failure possibility, not to mention the fact that we run out of candidates worldwide at 6,706,993,152; but using the Pope&#8217;s method, after 10 years we would still have only about 100 people infected with HIV.<\/p>\n<p>To bring it down to a more personal level, with an 80% reduction in the chance of being infected, would you have sex, using a condom, with an HIV infected person?<\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=maBJzJgYjto]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because he has managed to upset the UN, Planned Parenthood, the Times, the Telegraph &#8211; actually every major newspaper &#8211; with his remarks about the ineffectiveness of using condoms to combat Aids. Is his contention that fidelity and abstinence are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-pope-must-be-doing-something-right\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[2080],"class_list":["post-3335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","tag-christianity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}