Freedom to decide?
Well, checking Brazilian news sites, we can't avoid seeing that the Pope is going to visit Brazil. Major news. Anyway, since Brazil is one of the biggest Catholic countries (maybe even the biggest) in the world, that visit would have to happen someday.
The timing is right, since Catholicism may need some recovery there. A possibility of having a Brazilian saint also helps.
Ok, it's nice to have him there, and I think both sides may benefit from that. But some news just annoyed me.
News like this one.
Niiice... so he's trying to convince people (and perhaps the government) to be against abortion, to see abstinence as main way to prevent AIDS (against condoms), against homosexual weddings, etc.. Catholic traditional values.
You know, I don't really have any problem if he tries to convince Catholics to do so. That's their faith, I won't meddle with that. But it becomes a problem when it interferes with other people's freedom of choice.
For example, if someone's Catholic, it's ok to be against abortion. But pressure the government to forbid it at all?? Just because of one's faith? That just doesn't sound fair... What about someone who's not Catholic, doesn't have ways to raise a child properly and doesn't want the child. And that someone is still during "early pregnancy"?
Some religions are against blood transfer, but would they try to make it illegal? Or excommunicate politicians who don't try to do so?
Ok, there's the "life" concept when we talk about abortion too. But I think that it'd be better to make the abortion rather doom both mother and child, because they won't have the conditions to live. And what about rape? Is it right to obligate a mother to raise a child born under such circunstances?
Someone else thinks it's weird that people who procures an abortion are immediately excommunicated, but murderers aren't, or is it just me?
Anyway, my point is that any religion may have any dogma it wants, but shouldn't interfere with non-devotees right to make their own choices. And the government also shouldn't forbid things based only in religion. The law is the same for everyone in the country. Religion isn't. So politics and religion shouldn't be mixed. Period.
The timing is right, since Catholicism may need some recovery there. A possibility of having a Brazilian saint also helps.
Ok, it's nice to have him there, and I think both sides may benefit from that. But some news just annoyed me.
News like this one.
Niiice... so he's trying to convince people (and perhaps the government) to be against abortion, to see abstinence as main way to prevent AIDS (against condoms), against homosexual weddings, etc.. Catholic traditional values.
You know, I don't really have any problem if he tries to convince Catholics to do so. That's their faith, I won't meddle with that. But it becomes a problem when it interferes with other people's freedom of choice.
For example, if someone's Catholic, it's ok to be against abortion. But pressure the government to forbid it at all?? Just because of one's faith? That just doesn't sound fair... What about someone who's not Catholic, doesn't have ways to raise a child properly and doesn't want the child. And that someone is still during "early pregnancy"?
Some religions are against blood transfer, but would they try to make it illegal? Or excommunicate politicians who don't try to do so?
Ok, there's the "life" concept when we talk about abortion too. But I think that it'd be better to make the abortion rather doom both mother and child, because they won't have the conditions to live. And what about rape? Is it right to obligate a mother to raise a child born under such circunstances?
Someone else thinks it's weird that people who procures an abortion are immediately excommunicated, but murderers aren't, or is it just me?
Anyway, my point is that any religion may have any dogma it wants, but shouldn't interfere with non-devotees right to make their own choices. And the government also shouldn't forbid things based only in religion. The law is the same for everyone in the country. Religion isn't. So politics and religion shouldn't be mixed. Period.
2 comments:
Igor!!!!
glad you came back! but sorry i miss jojo more. hahaha!! wish you are her!
anyway come over to himeji often then we can play friz as 2 years ago.
abt photo, yea sure. if you give me you emaill. ill send them.
oh, and i added you to my "bad friends list" haha! pls check!
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