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No, YOU won't stop him. The Catholic Church has already done a pretty good job of that, by driving home the belief that condoms are a sin.

Your next argument is going to be, if this belief that condoms are a sin is so convincing and ingrained in these people, why isn't the belief that pre-marital sex is a sin likewise ingrained? Answer: Not sure, but it is certainly the case.

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That's certainly a good question. Another interesting question might be why the Catholic "indoctrination" has helped to spread AIDS in Africa, but hasn't killed millions of other Catholics around the world. It's not like Africa is the only place where they teach this. Is AIDS raging out of control in many of the heavily Catholic countries in South America? (serious question because I don't know) Do we even know if it's the Catholic Africans that AIDS is harming the most? Catholicism isn't the only religion in Africa.

I think there's far more to this then what some of you are simplifying it down to.

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This is epidemiology, there needs to be a certain threshold before an epidemic can spread. The epidemic of AIDS in Africa probably would have occurred without the intervention of the Catholic Church, and CERTAINLY without Western intervention (how would they have ever found out about condoms?) but combating the spread would be FAR easier without the intervention of the Catholic Church.