Originally Posted by
Columcille
Apparently you missed the whole point of my post. You were looking at the word "leprosy" and not getting beyond the deseases which kill physically. We are all going to die, if not by AIDS, by cancer, by heart attack, by thousands of ways. You want to cure AIDS, you want to cure cancer, you want to cure heart attacks, you want to cure all the things which physically kill a person. This is all well and good, but it is the activities with which people engage in that really matter; are they a good husband and wife, are they a good sibling, a good child, a good friend, a good neighbor? You want to cure AIDS and say that giving out needles is a preventative, it may be... but the drugs can still overdose the addict, the drugs can still ruin families, the drugs of which their addiction puts them at risk to even get AIDS... since they are mind altering drugs and therefore they may share needles even if given clean ones when not under the supervision of those caring folks that hand out needles and talk so highly of education. People are ultimately dumb to engage in illegal drug activity, and no matter of education stops the behavioral damage upon friends and family. This is where Christ's gospel comes in and where you stay silent. You have no real gospel to give, all your solutions are vanities if there is no ultimate purpose to go with it. Your talk so far demonstrates that "health" is your gospel.
I am not being paranoid, but your private belief that Christians are damaging to society is ultimately annilistic. You desire all people of religions to abandon their "supers***ions" and live in a society free of religion. This is not a realistic ideal. The Christian ethos has existed for two thousand years and has faced the winds of change. Your ideals are going to shift eventually, for the world's philosophies are not progressive.... they are inconsistent. No matter how good a person's health is, it will fail. The ****sexual lifestyle is not consistent with wholesome family values. No matter how much one tries to promote in the media outlets or sway public opinion, the erotic love that exists between the same sex is not efficient.