Condoms: Jesus Vs. Pope (VIDEO)

Since the Pope traveled to Africa and said that condoms are not the answer to the AIDS, pontiff parodies have been pouring in, but until now has Jesus hasn't been involved...especially not in action figure form kicking the Pope's ass.

Patrick Boivin, the man behind the exceedingly popular Iron Man Vs. Bruce Lee video, decided to take his stop-motion talents to a higher realm to promote condom use.


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[CitizenFarmer]

All of this left-wing hate against Catholics is not productive.

[daemos1]

Well the Catholic church's hate against non-diseased people is eqally non-productive

[somsoc]

The Pope needs to learn that the word was celebrate and that all of his piety has been a waste (except it has kept him from pro-creating). But to have one so inexperienced telling the rest of us about sex is amusingly stupid. It would be like me telling a woman what it is like to have a baby (I am a male). The Pope probably thinks the condom goes over his head and is afraid it will hurt his hearing; wrong head.

[Reighben Labilles]

The new Pope, I fear, will usher in a new era of a more zealous and more conservative form of Catholicism. With American-style Protestant Evangelicals rapidly spreading all over the world and the upsurge of super-cons­ervative/r­adical Islam in Muslim states, the world might face a 2nd dark age.

We liberals must act before reactionary forces overrun the planet and plunge Humanity into greater unreason.

[Mayoyo]

Benedict XVI is a disapointment...I miss John Paul II....
that was a stupid statement especially in Africa.

[Sepulchre]

Sorry people are offended but , s ex is a biological imperative, not a game. Being a biological imperative makes the drive incredibly strong, and things will happen. It is better to be protected than not, period.

As for empathy and compassion I have it in limited supply. I reserve it for those who show it in return. Reckless disregard for human safety is not empathy and compassion, it is quite the opposite. The Catholic church has been against bi rth control in any form from the beginning. The easiest way to get converts is to breed them. They are afraid if they make an exception 1) it might mean they were wrong 2) more of their followers might start using it, reducing the breeding of new Catholics which they can't have no matter how many people need to d i e for it.

Yeah, all about compassion.

As to Jesus, if he were here, I think he would not approve of the way his teachings are being followed today by Christians, including but far from limited to the Catholic Church.

[somsoc]

Well stated except for the Jesus reference, jesus never was!

[Zen0469]

Very effective advertisement.

I'm now a convert.

[avotredroite]

This video is insensitive to both liberal and conservative Catholics who have great reverence for their spiritual leader.

[marxmarv]

We're not going to change civil society around to protect you from uncomfortable contradictions and paradoxes.

[SonofLiberty1]

And those of us, who are part of civil society but are Catholic or Christian, will only become more resolute.

Jesus did say that the "Gates of Hell would not prevail against us".

You are just a number in a long line of others who think they can take us down......

[boonesfarmer]

Here, here...as Daniel Patrick Moynihan said, "Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts." This video was necessary to counter some very bad information about the spread of AIDS. The Pope, although a well respected figure, was acting irresponsibly and unethically when he stated his opinion as fact.

[avotredroite]

I am not asking for a change in society or for any protection. I seek respect for all viewpoints, without making fun of those who hold them.

[kareemachan]

I don't really give a rodent's derriere if it's insensitive. It's insensitive for the Pope to say that condoms aren't the answer to AIDS. NOT wearing condoms is the answer to getting AIDS, and he is condemning people to the heartbreak and hardships of contracting it, and passing it on to innocents, like wives, husbands, or children.

[minkia]

Yeah? Well, the over bigotry, sexism and child abuses of the Catholic Church are offensive to sane people everywhere. As an African living is the US who's seen the devastation of this kind of religious ignorance when it comes to HIV/AIDS i find this casual recklessness of the pope's statements especially offensive, I wonder how many of his friends or family have the virus.

[CR46]

I think the Catholic church is insensitive to many people in this world.

[somsoc]

The Catholic church like all religions should be irrelevant to this world.

[rejoyce5]

Happy Easter everyone!!!!!

[zest]

Keeeerist Jesus kick ass.

[RedEric]

Thank God it's Good Friday!
http://allanerickson.wordpress.com/2009/04/10/good-friday/

[VOTER]

And the WINNER OF ROUND ONE IS JESUS.

Next he takes on the Rethug Hypocrites.

GO, JESUS!!!

[Koozie]

Here is the great irony in this video. What if we knew for a fact that all the great peacemakers in history--Christ, Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Mandela, Pope John Paul II--never came to walk this earth because contraception was used at the moment of their conception. Would we be a little less sanguine about the merits of contraception? Or perhaps would we be spurred on, like the Catholic Church, to take the hard road and search for alternative solutions to eliminating poverty and disease in Africa by for example spearheading the movement to eliminate Africa's crushing foreign debts as the Catholic Church and Pope John Paul II did during the Jubilee 2000 movement (oddly enough, very little coverage of this in the US media which like most of the respondents on this site tend to view the world through an opaque condom covered lens). Investing in education and development, removing the yoke of colonialism, implementing fair trade...those are the solutions to Africa's endemic problems...not convenient ones like handing out condoms to Joe Uganda. The Catholic Church is an ally in this struggle and to paint it otherwise is plain lazy or ignorant or both.

[Till Krueger]

you are playing poker with people's lives...your ideology is not helping in curbing the sheer numbers: nearly 20 million orphaned children, who have lost their parents to AIDS, many infected with the same disease...i won't argue about the importance of the efforts to also approach the problem of the staggering weight of the debt, but that effort does not make up for the fact that *not* condoning the use of condoms as an additional method of curbing the rate of new infections is a gross misconduct...i find the actions of the Catholic Church on that matter criminal and cynical...human lives over religious dogma...nothing much has changed there in nearly 2000 years...enough!

[SonofLiberty1]

And who are you to judge?

Are you God?

I think not.

We each have to take responsibility for our actions..apparently this doesn't happen very much in Africa.

[hjsung]

let's not talk about coulda, woulda, shoulda, what-if's. what if with contraception we prevented another hitler or george bush from being born? see, the argument can go eitherway if you wanna talk hypothetically. btw, wasnt jesus born dispite mary's abstinence? looks like great beings could be born unnaturally.. i would have no problem with your comment, if the catholic church did work on any of those things you mentioned that would help africa in a long run - implementing fair trade, etc, but all the catholic church has done is furthering its old dogma and its love of unborn babies. who is the pope, a mere human, to interpret god's divine intent? use condoms, seriously.

[dezeray1]

Horribly weak argument.

1st - The opposite could be said about Hitler, Stalin, Charles Manson (if ONLY their parents used contraceptive).

2nd- Abstinence then is also as bad as contraception as it is preventing possible peacemakers from being born.

[AbsurdHero]

And wet dreams are the Devil's Mayonnaise.

[rejoyce5]

Excellent response. The Catholic Church has always had a pro life stance. Condoms prevent the act of creating life so the Church is against it. I'm not worried that the Pope will change his mind any time soon and I comm end him for sticking to his beliefs. If you don't agree,fine, but I have the right to not agree with you.

[marxmarv]

People have the right to maintain beliefs in the face of contradictory evidence. Those of us who deal in facts have the right to scrutinize such people's statements on account of that such people tend to, whether knowingly or unknowingly, present or impose such beliefs as universal fact.

[marxmarv]

Then God would have fulfilled Her intent through some other vessel.

[scottowego]

Bravo!!!!!!

[imsosure]

Another attempt of a cover-up from the catholic hypocrites .

[kreoth]

if i may ask, what is your religious background­/upbringin­g? do people from your religious background­/upbringin­g enjoy being called hypocrites and deluded and foolish on a pretty much daily basis on forums like this one? just curious

[SonofLiberty1]

And another attempt at throwing the book at a philosophy of life that you and I do not share but there you go again, feeling as though you have the right and obligation to tell us how wrong we are.

How would you know?

[vinny]

admit, christians never practice what they preach... and bible was written by fallible men...

[kareemachan]

We'd get a hint that it's wrong when something coming from the head of a religion could easily condemn many people to AIDS.

[Jonahson]

lol!

[dphilip]

How about a vid of Muhammad and OBL fighting over an AK47?

[kreoth]

unlikely, these satirists only grow "cojones" against christianity, they are too afraid of islam

[Jonahson]

It is not a wise thing to do. I think it was the Danes who did something on that line and it became an international crisis. Eventually everyone apologised to avoid further backlash. If Patrick Boivin is a US citizen and he did do the video there will be far bitter consequences. Obama may have to make a public statement to denounce the video while the troops in Iraq and Afghan will have a hell of a time.
Laughing at the expenses of other people's faith is a bit distasteful even though the producer is sending a sensible message but it is funny anyway. I don't think the Catholics will find it funny.