[The Skeptic Tank's President Fredric Rice forward: Here you will find the first part of o

[The Skeptic Tank's President Fredric Rice forward:  Here you will find
the first part of one of the most bigoted and hate-filled statements
of opinion by a Christian you're likely to read.  It is, I fear, what
Christianity has become of late in the United States.   Much of what you
will read is mouthed off at the majority of Christian alters across the
country in what is becoming a part of the growing fascism being
experienced in the United States.  Here you will read the lies that
Christian masters want their followers to believe.  You will read of the
demonization of innocent people; the justification for the death of
innocent millions; and all of it summed-up as the will of the Christian
gods, of course.  That's step #1 in the short ladder to rounding up
innocent people and exterminating them -- something Christianity has a
long history of doing.

As is always the policy at The Skeptic Tank, the text has not been
altered or added to in any way.  Those Christians who accuse me of
fabricating these types of documents to try to make Christianity look
bad will doubtless point out the fact that the document provided here
contains no testable references whatsoever -- as if that means they may
safely discard the fact of the text and the ideological basis of
contemporary Christianity it describes.  To those who suggest that, I
say 'Open your eyes and take a little responsibility for your cult's
bigotry and hatred.  Unless you like what your religion has become.' - flr]

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              DEATHSYLE: AIDS AND DIVINE JUDGEMENT

          "As a dog returns to his own vomit
          So a fool repeats his folly (Proverbs 26:11)

{THIS IS A TWO-PART FILE ON AIDS; IT COMES FROM THE BOOK "POWER
IN THE BLOOD" BY DAVID CHILTON.  IT IS MEANT TO BE INFORMATIVE
AND SOBERING AND TO CAUSE DISCUSSION IN THE MESSAGE AREAS.  IT IS
NOT AN ATTACK AGAINST GAY PEOPLE BUT DOES ACCURATELY PORTRAY
THEIR SEXUAL ACTIVITIES AND DOES ACCURATELY PORTRAY GOD'S OPINION
OF THOSE WHO DO SUCH}  Bob Liichow

     Divine judgement is a touchy subject.  Tempers soar in a
dozen different directions the minute it's brought up.  One irate
letter-writer to Time summed up the attitude of many:

     Reagan and a number of other insist on referring to
     individuals infected with AIDS as innocent.  This term
     carries the clear implication that the more than 30,000
     humans who contracted the disease through homosexual
     activities or IV drug use were not innocent and died quite
     deservedly.  It is a cruel injustice to these people and
     their surviving friends and loved ones.

     Are all AIDS victims really innocent?  Are homosexuality and
IV drug use merely alternate lifestyles that have no bearing on
the fate of their practitioners?  The answer should be obvious. 
Both homosexuals and illicit drug users are willfully and
deliberately engaged in dangerous, destructive activities.  Their
case is radically different from that of the infant born with the
AIDS virus, or the unsuspecting wife who contracts the infection
from her adulterous husband, or the hemophiliac who receives a
transfusion of tainted blood.  In a very real sense, these
victims are "innocent"' homosexuals and IV drug users are not.

     I have already pointed out that homosexuality is far and
away the main source of the AIDS virus in this country.  There
are important reasons for this fact.  It is no accident.  The
popular media version of homosexuality portrays it as little more
than a same-sex alternative to normal heterosexuality.  As it is
actually practiced, however, homosexuality would seem to have
more in common with torture and human sacrifice.

     I must warn the reader that the following discussion is
terribly explicit.  Homosexuality is not equal to
heterosexuality.  Homosexuality is evil.  It is a perverse
abomination against God.

     HOMOSEXUALITY AND DISEASE

     We must begin with a rather basic and obvious point about
the difference between heterosexual and homosexual intercourse: 
God designed the vagina to be penetrated by a penis.  The vaginal
walls can stretch, and they are naturally lubricated during
intercourse.  The anus and rectum, in contrast, were not designed
for sexual activity.  They were created to excrete feces, period. 
The rectum is neither elastic nor lubricated; consequently, anal
intercourse routinely tears the lining of the rectum and causes
the anus to split and crack into bleeding fissures.  These tears
and fissures in turn become channels for HIV to pass into the
bloodstream.  Studies have show that "receptive anal intercourse
was the specific sexual activity which correlated most strongly
with reduced level of helper T-cells" and the consequent
breakdown of the immune system.

     Repeated anal intercourse commonly results in other harmful
conditions, such as colitis (or colonitis), an extremely painful
inflammation of the mucous membrane of the colon; muscosal ulcers
in the rectum; and Kobner's phenomenon, a psoriasis of the
rectum, penis and scrotum.  Anal intercourse also weakens the
sphincter causing--to put it delicately--"fecal incontinence." 
The damaged muscle is just unable to hold it in, and the rectum
dribbles with bloody feces.  This involuntary ooze can leave
deposits wherever the homosexual sits:  on toilet seats, on
benches in saunas and locker rooms, and anywhere else.  If the
fecal matter is contaminated with the AIDS virus, there is a
possibility that others might be infected as well.

     Further, anal intercourse has be found-even apart from AIDS-
to damage the body's immune system.  Large quantities of sperm
cells enter the bloodstream of the passive partner. (The thick
walls, elasticity, and lubrication of the vagina prevent this
from being a problem in normal sexual intercourse).  After
repeated cases of sodomy, the body develops antibodies to fight
off the invading sperm.  These antibodies then circulate
throughout the bloodstream, suppressing the immune system itself. 
Moreover, sperm containing HIV is extremely efficient in
communicating the disease: "Leukocytes in the seminal fluid
carried the AIDS virus directly to the lymphoid organs of
homosexual partners, thus achieving a highly efficient transfer
of the infection to most lymphoid cells."  Gene Antonio rightly
remarks: "From a purely biological perspective sodomy, even apart
from the transmission of AIDS, is an intrinsically unsanitary and
pathological act.  In addition, the practice of sodomy has been
so readily transmitted and fostered among homosexuals.

     The passive partner is not the only one at risk of disease. 
Over time, the penis of the active partner can become chafed;
various diseases may also cause sores to erupt on the penis. 
Infected blood and other fluids from the rectum can then enter
the body through these abrasions, as well as through the urethra.

     But there is much more to homosexuality than anal
intercourse.  The practice of "fisting" is also common:  the
active partner shoves his hand and forearm up the other man's
rectum and into the colon.  Other instruments-dildoes, vibrators,
and even cola bottles (which occasionally get stuck)-are rammed
into the rectum; according to some reports, live rodents (such as
gerbils) have been used for these purposes as well.  Fisting only
further aggravates the problem caused by sodomy: as one "Safe
Sex" kit advises, "putting a hand or fist into someone's rectum
or vaginas is very dangerous because the internal tissue can
easily be torn. (Jeffery Haert comments on that phrasing: "There
is every reason to doubt that heterosexual couples are "fisting. 
The word vagina is present in the above sentence only in order to
protect the gay practice)."

     The same kit provided, along with 2 brochures, 2 condoms,
and a tube of lubricant, a little latex square called a "rubber
dam" to use for hygienic "rimming"-the practice of anilingus
(about 2/3'rds of homosexual men regularly lick or insert their
tongue into their partner's anus).  Without the rubber dam-or it
if breaks, slips or overflows--the anilingus ingests his partners
fecal material.  In a national study of homosexual practices, 17%
of the homosexuals interviewed admitted eating their partner's
bodily waste, or smearing it on themselves.  12% gave and
received enemas as part of their "sexual" activity.

     To appreciate this fully one must understand the phenomenon
known as "Gay Bowel Syndrome,"  made up of the following
conditions, among others:

1. AMEBIASIS, a colon disease caused by parasites, causing
abscesses, ulcers and diarrhea.

2. GIARDIASIS, ap parasitic bowel disease, again causing diarrhea
and sometimes enteritis.

3. SHIGELLOSIS, a bacterial bowel disease, causing severe
dysentery.

4. HEPATITIS A, a viral liver disease, which its victims can
spread to others through food handling, and even through water
splashed on toilet seats.