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Originally posted by Vincent:
I made this topic to discuss HIV and the possibility it was sent by God. I saw people on another topic talking about HIV in Egypt, so I thought it might be a good idea to talk about it in terms of God/Allah. Please state your opinion on the subject.

Many christian fundamentalists and extreme conservatives, such as myself, believe so. I find it very difficult to believe that *just one* out of the thousands of monkies out there, and millions that have been around all throughout time, happen to not only have somthing in his blood that was the inevitable mutation of HIV, but also infect a human who just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. The possibilities of that are like one and a trillion. Doesn't somthing sound a little fishy? It COULD NOT have been a radical coincidence.

The majority of the people that aquire HIV get it through breaking the will of The Lord God by having sex before marriage. I believe that this is God's way of saying "Hey, ya'll better cut with this behavior."

There are people that aquire HIV other ways. Some such as sharing needles, dentists that don't use clean tools, and spouses that cheat on them and get HIV then give it to them. If there was a study conducted on people who aquired HIV from somthing else other than sex that were asked stuff like "have you ever gravely sinned? have you ever had sex before marriage?" I'll bet 99% of the people would admit to either murder, sex, rape, stealing money, etc.

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Associating HIV with God will ,presence & outbreak, it a myth. How many epidemics we had encountered? And how many people died as a result?

In 1348, 25 million people died as a result of Plague
In 1493, millions of people died as a result of Syphilis
In 1614, hundred of thousands of people died as a result of Small Pox
In 1918, 20 million people were killed as a result of Spanish Flue
We should not also forgot the very famous epidemics such as; yellow fever, cholera, and TB.

Are all the above epidemics GOD- made products to punish humans for their sins?? What a BS!

In pervious centuries people tried to associate epidemics with sin. In the medieval era, leper men/women were to stand in an open grave and were forbidden to enter church.
Also, syphilis which is a sexually transmitted disease STD, was viewed as a disease for people who " work against God's will". Every nation tried to categorize it as a disease brought from outside by foreigners.

It is a shame that in the 21st centaury we still think the same !!!

Cheers