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On a pervious post Anonymous said...
"the old testament was only a history of the Hebrew people, and not of anyone else."
This is a good point and raises the question of if the flood was a flood of the whole earth or just the area local to the Hebrew people. The Bible seems to indicate that it was the whole earth because it says "Every living thing on the face of the Earth was wiped out" (Gen 7:23) also if it was just the local area then the birds that Noah sent out would have found land.

There are sevral other accounts of insest happening and God not punishing any one: Lot's daughters both have sex with their dad but there is no account of them being punished(Gen 19 -30). Abraham's Son (Isaac) marrys his cousen as does his son (Jacob) (Gen 24:67 & Gen 29) yet no one is punished.

New Pope

I hope the new pope will have a more humane and modern view towards HIV/AIDS and contraception than the last pope did.
The Church in Africa is extremely powerful, unlike the African continent which is one of the poorest on the planet.
In Africa "An estimated 25.4 million people are living with HIV and approximately 3.1 million new infections occurred in 2004"avert.org Yet "the overall provision of condoms to sub-Saharan Africa is only 4.6 per man per year"avert.org. I'm not saying that the church is the main cause of this but it certainly isn't helping the situation.

The reason the Catholic church is so against contraception is because it is supposedly stopping potential life from starting. However by not using contaception it is likely to end even more human life by the spread of AIDS. I don't have the exact figures but you are probably just as likely to get HIV by having unprotected sex than you of getting pregnant, or worse to get pregnant and then give birth to a child who has HIV. The point is that the use of condoms in Africa will probably save more lives than the prevention of "potential" lives.