William K. Wolfrum Chronicles

Dear Organized Religion:

Here’s a snippet of a recent story on how you badgered the politicians you own into giving you tax money earmarked to fight AIDS:

“President Bush’s $15 billion effort to fight AIDS has handed out nearly one-quarter of its grants to religious groups, and officials are aggressively pursuing new church partners that often emphasize disease prevention through abstinence and fidelity over condom use.

Award recipients include a Christian relief organization famous for its televised appeals to feed hungry children, a well-known Catholic charity and a group run by the son of evangelist Billy Graham, according to the State Department.”

Well isn’t that just swell.

Anyway, I was thinking about this and realized some important facts. In the thousands and thousands of years people have worshipped deities, things like prostitution have existed. In fact, during Christianity’s watch, AIDS came into existence. As did more or less every other sexually transmitted disease known to man.

So please, enough with the preaching, dear religiotti. You’ve failed. Badly and repeatedly. I see no reason for taxpayer’s in the U.S. to line your pocketbooks for such complete and total ineptitude.

Please head to your nearest cave and start over, pounding your messages onto stone tablets. Because your unchangeable plan of braying to people to stop having sex isn’t working to solve a damned thing when it comes to things like AIDS.

And giving you billions to make that simplistic message louder just makes everyone look idiotic.

–WKW

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