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Like what?Why do people believe things like this?
Absolutely it is a punishment from God. Not joking here. I don't see how anyone who believes in almighty God could disagree with this.Do you think AIDS is a punishment from God? Why or why not?
Why is AIDS a punishment, and not cancer, or diabetes? Also, what are we being punished for?Absolutely it is a punishment from God. Not joking here.
I can only assume you haven't given it much thought.I don't see how anyone who believes in almighty God could disagree with this.
There are very few things to which I haven't given much thought. Thinking is kind of my thing.Why is AIDS a punishment, and not cancer, or diabetes? Also, what are we being punished for?
I can only assume you haven't given it much thought.
Then you've suffered a failure of imagination.There are very few things to which I haven't given much thought. Thinking is kind of my thing.
Really? For what?Cancer and diabetes are also punishments from God, but the question was about AIDS.
Well, for one thing, I don't believe in that kind of God.How can you possibly believe it is not?
Did you not bother to read the thread, or are you simply ignoring everyone who disagrees with you?Seriously, what is your reasoning?
Storm, you know I love you, but why do you always lead with an insult? It's not necessary.Then you've suffered a failure of imagination.
So you believe God would be against little children getting AIDS from blood transfusions, therefore He would never use it as a punishment? Am I correct here?Well, for one thing, I don't believe in that kind of God.
Storm...I'm asking a valid question that directly relates to the O.P. One which you apparently do not want to answer apart from saying that you don't believe in that kind of God which is really not much of an answer.Did you not bother to read the thread, or are you simply ignoring everyone who disagrees with you?
Only if you assume/believe that God has the power to stop it.But here's the thing. God clearly WANTS that innocent child to have AIDS. If God did not want that child to have AIDS, then that child wouldn't have AIDS.
It wasn't an insult.Storm, you know I love you, but why do you always lead with an insult? It's not necessary.
No, I don't believe God is separate from Creation in the first place. Nothing is handed down from on high, because there is no on high. God is us. God is AIDS, too.So you believe God would be against little children getting AIDS from blood transfusions, therefore He would never use it as a punishment? Am I correct here?
When the question is so totally inapplicable to my beliefs, how do you expect me to answer?Storm...I'm asking a valid question that directly relates to the O.P. One which you apparently do not want to answer apart from saying that you don't believe in that kind of God which is really not much of an answer.
For there to be punishment, wrong must be done. You still haven't answered the question of what victims are being punished for. I can only conclude that you know better.I am not ignoring these people. I am asking them WHY they think it is not a punishment. Only Invisible Chzbrgr gives a reason, that God wouldn't give such disease to an innocent child.
Why? What is a newborn being punished for? How bout a zygote?But here's the thing. God clearly WANTS that innocent child to have AIDS. If God did not want that child to have AIDS, then that child wouldn't have AIDS.
If so, i know it ain't my fault.Do you think AIDS is a punishment from God? Why or why not?
No, and it would be absurd to think so.Do you think AIDS is a punishment from God? Why or why not?