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Originally Posted by bhutocracy
It was a little more complicated than that, he saw godless communism as a greater evil and the Nazi's were fighting the heathens. They wanted them to defeat the soviets and then sign a peace treaty and stop the war etc.
When it comes down to it though, is there a really big difference between looking the other way while 6 million people from another religion get slaughtered and killing millions of your own followers die with AIDS because you banned condoms?
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correct of course, but to many the thing that stood out about him was that the side he backed was Hitler's. He also apparently "looked the other way" while millions of Jews were gassed, but that was probably okay because at least they weren't catholics.
As to the AIDS in Africa issue and any other social issues like it, I can only imagine that it would be very difficult for even the pope to go against church doctrine, especially on matters of sex. I'm in no way making excuses, I'm merely speculating on what the mindset on it might have been. Also, I wouldn't go laying the entire blame for the AIDS epidemic in Africa at the feet of the Vatican, the people had something to do with it too. As in, like the rest of us they are free to use proper protection anyway. Doesn't the Red Cross make condoms available to anyone who wants them over there?