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Use of Condoms and Religious Beliefs
by Nancy Keene
If you turn around and look you will find that the most affordable and effective means to prevent sexually transmitted diseases and help in unwanted pregnancy around the world is condoms. Thus, for the same above reason many groups are concerned about the practice of safe sex by using contraceptives such as condoms among masses mostly teenagers and adults who are intensely involved in sex. Since many years this awareness program about using condoms is spreading widely across the globe. Campaigns on contraceptive use have been intensively promoted across the countries with heavy population along with increasing number of HIV/AIDS diseases.
In spite of so much awareness programs by government groups and non-government groups, still not all people know about condoms and some feel that it is against their religious customs to use contraceptives. Various religions exist in around the world and they have their own set of ideologies. When it comes for the use of condoms as contraception in family planning or as a preventive against the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, different religions have their own perceptions. Many liberal groups have debated with the religious groups pertaining to this matter and tried to explain them about the positive aspects of condoms.
Many organizations are also spreading the use condoms worldwide in order to avoid the spread of the most dreadful disease HIV/AIDS. But, it is being badly hampered due to the religious groups who object about the use of contraception resulting in the failure of saving the lives of millions infected by this disease. The tug of war is going on for the past many years and the groups have been appealing to religious leaders to help spread the use of condoms thus preventing the transmission of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases.
AIDS is a dreadful disease that has taken millions of people around the world under its affect and still the number is increasing. Health and Medical experts believe that the most effective way of preventing the spread of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases is by the use condoms.
It is not only government leaders in countries having high rates of HIV cases but also religious leaders who can play an important role in the prevention and reduction of HIV infections. Thus, condoms can be useful in preventing unwanted pregnancy and sexually infectious diseases if religious groups show their active involvement.
About the Author
Dr. Nancy Keene mostly writes about the use of condoms in day to day life. She provides tips and information regarding the usefulness of discountcondomking.com
Atheist Life vs Religious Life
Some argue that religious life is the best way to live. They claim life without a god is sad and depressing. Statements like "I could not imagine my life without God", and "My life would be meaningless without God", are common defenses for a religious life. The following is a list of advantages atheists enjoy over a religious life. I invite the religious viewers to submit a response video with the advantages of a religious life.
Atheists can make moral decisions based on the specific context. Having absolutes like "Though Shall not Lie" stops people from thinking for themselves and making the right decision based on the situation at hand. In what situation would be okay to lie? Most religious people would say, never. Atheists would disagree. For example: If you were living in Germany hiding Jews in your attic during the holocaust, and Hitler's Nazis knocked on your door and asked if you were hiding Jews, would it be okay to lie to save the lives of the Jews in your attic? I believe trying to save their lives would the moral and proper choice. Atheists have the power to do what's right for all humanity, rather than the forced perspective of doing what is right for a god.
Atheists can experience healthy outrage at the outrageous without fear of questioning God's plan. We can be outraged when a friend dies of a horrible disease, or is killed in a car accident. It is okay to be upset at disasters and horrible events. It is not a part of any plan. It is just a horrible event. Atheists try to learn from them and not just chalk it up to God's Plan. We use science to understand catastrophic events like hurricanes, and tsunamis. This gives us the ability to save lives. If we think a magical plan is going to happen no matter what, then why try to stop the events or make things better. Atheists do not wonder if a god is punishing us. Yes, there is cause and effect, and our actions effect how we live, you should save for retirement, and if your diet is bad you'll end up fat, or sick, or both. But if an airplane part falls on your house, it is an accident. If you find a 5 dollar bill on the sidewalk, it is an accident. No magical intervention, no magical wrath, these are just accidents. Life has an element of chance. This may not seem comforting, but here is another way to look at it: Your loved one dies in a completely random car accident where nobody could possibly be blamed. Is it more comforting to know the accident happened because of bad luck or is better to think the accident could have been prevented by an omnipotent being that could have stepped in and saved them from an untimely death, but your god decided to just let them die? You don't have to be frustrated thinking "Was it because I didn't pray enough?" "Was God mad at me or them?" "Maybe I should have prayed more." Atheist take comfort in knowing there is no plan.
Atheist can be friends with everyone without having the thought in the back of their mind that this person's lifestyle may be evil. You have the power to accept people for what they are. Enabling you to enjoy their quirks rather than chastise them for being unique. Atheists can have relationships with people who have alternative lifestyles without feeling like they have to save them from some deity that is going to condemn them for being themselves. After all, if there was a creator, then he has made everyone the way they are. Atheists don't fear that a large part of the earth's population is going to hell for being true to themselves.
Atheists do not live with the fear of hell. This is one of the hardest things for religious people to shake and one of the best rewards. Religious people love the thought of heaven, but fear hell as a consequence. In order to lose the fear of hell, you have to let go of the false hope of heaven. Atheists have done both.
Atheists raise freethinking children; let them pick a religion, or none. What would you have picked? This is hard for parents. If a child wanted to be another religion, or even atheist, it would be devastating to most religious parents. Why not teach them about all religions and tell them why you believe the one you do, and then let them choose? Atheists do not force atheism on their children. We simple let them see the evidence for and against religion and let them make up there own mind. They may change there mind several times. This is okay. Atheists love their children no matter what belief they are drawn too. That is the beauty of free thinking. You can raise your children according to your values without feeling as though you have to defend Bible stories that even a child can see are fiction.
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