Sooo, the Pope and his entourage say that birth control pills are cock-blocking the men of the world and also polluting the environment with their piss. No, really.
The Vatican, central station for many of the world’s WTF moments, seems to be using science as a resource and actually using it to get people to believe anything they have to say. These are the people who have shown many times before that science doesn’t factor into their religious beliefs, especially when it concerns things that people do in their day to day lives – and especially when it has to do with sex and the creation of life.
So now they want to embrace science, for the moment anyway, just so they can throw it in women’s faces and tell them that they’re anti-baby ways are making God’s green Earth very sad.
One of the funny things in the article from the Vatican newspaper is not exactly what the president of the International Federation of Catholic Medical Associations (Pedro Jose Maria Simon Castellvi, for those curious) says, but how the newspaper concedes his statement (in bold):
“We have sufficient evidence to state that a non-negligible cause of male infertility in the West is the environmental pollution caused by the pill,” he said, without elaborating further.
Kind of makes you wonder what exactly their methods were to figure out such an outrageous anomaly of truthiness. Also, I hope they only eat meat from privately-owned farms because otherwise they may have to eat the Pope’s hat once they realize that a lot of cow farmers give female hormones to their cows, to, er, “beef” them up (sorry for the pun).
