AIDS and Christian lying for Ron

Helen Willis hhiwater@BRIGHT.NET
Sun, 27 Sep 1998 08:52:25 -0700 (00906929545, 360E5F39.1C00@bright.net)


Ron claims that all STD trace back to sexual transmission. AIDS is thought to 
trace back to hunting primates in the 50's. The basic idea being a hunter got 
blood from an injured infected primate bleeding into an open wound on the 
hunter. Is hunting then the original sin? I have seen some explanations of 
this idea of the origin of the human infection that suggest that it was the 
massive needs for live primates for lab work that cause high prices for these 
primates causing inexperienced men to try to live capture, which was a 
procedure they had no experience with, animals they had never tried to handle 
before. So is it possible that live experiments on lab animals is the 
original sin involved in AIDS? The reason so many primates were needed int he 
50's was the need to grow and test polio vaccine. Was this the bad thing god 
was punishing? The animals were render unconcious prior to polio being grown 
or tested on their spines. Maybe this is what God disapproved on. Or is it 
possible that the spread of disease, which is a good thing to stop when the 
method of transmission is known, is not linked to the immorality of the 
action that spreads it? Sneezing is not sinful, yet sneezing spreads disease. 
Ron would argue that the common cold was proof of God disapproval of 
sneezing.
Helen
hhiwater@bright.net