Odd really...refusing to allow Catholics to use condoms have knowingly sentenced to death tens of thousands of Africans who contracted HIV due to unprotected sex.

What is even odder is that anywhere this subject is discussed a similar comment seems to crop up.

Are these people serious?

The 'refusal to allow', and hardly unique to Catholicism, concerns promiscuous sex - fornication and adultery. The RCC and most other Christian denoms, as well as many that are not Christian, regard sex outside marriage as sinful.

The idea of an observant Catholic completely disregarding this matter of basic morality, but at the same time observing the ban on artificial methods of birth control for religious reasons is pretty ridiculous, doncha think?

Promiscuous sex has always been dangerous and potentially deadly. That hardly originated with the pope.