http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2006/12/pagan-view-of-aids.html A modern Pagan perspective Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2006/12/pagan-view-of-aids.html#comment-815 Card-Table Gypsy Sat, 02 Dec 2006 02:24:00 +0000 http://patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2006/12/the-pagan-view-of-aids.html#comment-815 I find after reading the interview that I have serious questions about how accurately the director's words are being transmitted. The editing is atrocious, with spellings like "Buddah" suggesting no one even bothered with a spell-checker. Words are just flatly misused, though who actually is responsible for that is anyone's guess (A disease cannot be "derisive." It can, however, be "divisive," and context suggests strongly that that was the intended word.). Pass the salt. I find after reading the interview that I have serious questions about how accurately the director’s words are being transmitted. The editing is atrocious, with spellings like “Buddah” suggesting no one even bothered with a spell-checker. Words are just flatly misused, though who actually is responsible for that is anyone’s guess (A disease cannot be “derisive.” It can, however, be “divisive,” and context suggests strongly that that was the intended word.). Pass the salt.

]]> http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2006/12/pagan-view-of-aids.html#comment-814 Anonymous Fri, 01 Dec 2006 23:50:00 +0000 http://patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2006/12/the-pagan-view-of-aids.html#comment-814 <i>He's kidding, right? Is diabetes spread through sex? I don't think so.</i>No, diabetes isn't spread through sex - but it <i>can</i> be developed as a result of overeating and leading a sedentary lifestyle. From the ultra-Christian perspective, that's gluttony and sloth, two mortal sins. So, in theory, and using the same logic as why fundies are attacking the 'sinfulness' of HIV, the fundies should have been all over diabetes from the beginning. He’s kidding, right? Is diabetes spread through sex? I don’t think so.No, diabetes isn’t spread through sex – but it can be developed as a result of overeating and leading a sedentary lifestyle. From the ultra-Christian perspective, that’s gluttony and sloth, two mortal sins. So, in theory, and using the same logic as why fundies are attacking the ‘sinfulness’ of HIV, the fundies should have been all over diabetes from the beginning.

]]> http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2006/12/pagan-view-of-aids.html#comment-813 Hecate Fri, 01 Dec 2006 20:07:00 +0000 http://patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2006/12/the-pagan-view-of-aids.html#comment-813 <i>I really wanted to know why AIDS has been derisive and pushed people apart. Diabetes never caused people to call God's intentions into question or blame people for getting it, but this disease did.</i>He's kidding, right? Is diabetes spread through sex? I don't think so. I really wanted to know why AIDS has been derisive and pushed people apart. Diabetes never caused people to call God’s intentions into question or blame people for getting it, but this disease did.He’s kidding, right? Is diabetes spread through sex? I don’t think so.

]]> http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2006/12/pagan-view-of-aids.html#comment-812 Anonymous Fri, 01 Dec 2006 19:19:00 +0000 http://patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2006/12/the-pagan-view-of-aids.html#comment-812 Yeah, sounds like he was trying to make a point but ran out of religions that would fit the perspectives he had created so he created one that he called Pagan. Yeah, sounds like he was trying to make a point but ran out of religions that would fit the perspectives he had created so he created one that he called Pagan.

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