{"id":1361,"date":"2015-04-12T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2015\/04\/sexual-immorality-leads-to-aids.html"},"modified":"2015-04-12T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-12T16:00:00","slug":"sexual-immorality-leads-to-aids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2015\/04\/sexual-immorality-leads-to-aids.html","title":{"rendered":"Sexual immorality leads to AIDS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Really? \u00a0You\u2019d never know it. \u00a0The media, focusing on racist cops and the terrors of spanking and obesity, never seems to link our sex and drugs culture with AIDS. \u00a0In fact, based on Nat Geo and CNN, peer reviewed scientists agree that the explosion of AIDS in the 70s after a couple decades of sex and drugs, was purely coincidental. <\/p>\n

Most major religions are reluctant to draw the link. \u00a0Certainly the Catholic Church has made no utterances. \u00a0Rather, according to Pope Francis, it\u2019s time to get over obsessions about these lesser things like homosexuality, sex, bedroom issues. \u00a0During world AIDS Day a few years ago, Pope Benedict made sure we understood there was to be no dwelling on the sex and causes part of AIDS. \u00a0Because of course if AIDS and sex are unrelated, there\u2019s not much to worry about, correct? \u00a0Of course that doesn\u2019t include other STDs, broken homes, unwed mothers, the lie of condoms as salvation, crumbling civilization, and on and on. <\/p>\n

Of course, there is the odd exception. \u00a0For instance, because I\u2019ve gotten to know some Orthodox Christians, including an Orthodox Deacon, over the months since I got my job, I\u2019ve been seeing some of the sites in the Orthodox world. \u00a0I saw this<\/a>, which is really about weeping icons. \u00a0But here is the sentence that leaped out at me:<\/p>\n

Certainly\u00a0<\/span>sexual immorality (with the resultant AIDS epidemic) has become increasingly<\/span><\/span><\/span>acceptable in recent decades\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You see that? \u00a0Actually suggesting our descent into the debauchery of our sex, homosex, group sex, and drugs generation and tens of millions of corpses floating in the wake of AIDS is somehow related. \u00a0Wow. \u00a0Talk about spade calling. \u00a0Perhaps I was correct when I said you can\u2019t be legitimately pro-life and be blas\u00e9\u00a0<\/span><\/span>about our sex and drugs culture. \u00a0Perhaps, while acknowledging that past Christians could have been too harsh in dealing with sexual issues, that it is no less harsh to ignore the suffering, death, and destruction of this cultural rot. \u00a0It was nice to see. \u00a0Usually as a Catholic, if I mention the need to get serious and say more than \u2018it\u2019s wrong\u2019, I\u2019m accused of puritanism and not being hip and awesome. \u00a0And that doesn\u2019t even count trying to suggest that sexual promiscuity, homosex, or drug culture and AIDS are somehow linked. \u00a0Well done Orthodox website. \u00a0I wonder how common that is throughout the Orthodox world. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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