Six die because church says STOP HIV treatment

[Creed of Heresy]

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I can't believe the amount of you people sitting here saying these people deserved to die.

No, I'm serious, you lot sound just as fucking despicable as the pastors and bishops you all rail against and claim to be morally superior to. >:|

Have you guys taken a look around, lately? Have you noticed something about religions? Have you noticed their numbers swell not with of those of sound mind, but rather, by people who are VULNERABLE? Have you never noticed that people in a state of mental or emotional distress turn to religions because religions offer them false promises and false hope? Is it not true that people who lose loved ones, who receive sudden declaration of the shortening of their lives, of those who suffer all forms of emotional trauma turn to religion in desperation for hope, for something to cling to because they likely have nothing else? Is it not true that religions, all of them but ESPECIALLY christianity, prey [or pray?] upon this constantly? That its very design is meant to appeal to the inevitable emotional trauma that people will suffer, that it preys upon the fears and despair of people when they are laid their lowest? That living a life with AIDs, a disease that is definitive early, sickly death both physically and socially [physically later, but socially permanently during your now greatly-shortened lifespan], might be extremely weakening to someone's emotional health and that clearly these poor bastards became victims of a bunch of scam artists and liars?

And you people are saying THEY DESERVE THIS?

What the fucking fuck, people. What. The. Fuck. Is wrong with you guys. Sudden I feel as revolted towards to you just as much as I am by the evangelical predators who led these people to an even earlier death...BECAUSE YOUR MORAL COMPASS IS JUST AS FUCKED UP AS THEIRS IS.

I'm sure I'll get over that feeling eventually, but...just...

WOW.

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You DO know that this is exactly what gets our collective goat? That the "church" <insert religious affiliation here> TOTALLY relies on the vulnerable, illiterate and insecure to fill it's ranks? You think that THIS is honourable??

It is this VERY fact that is despicable and religion itself is to blame for these deaths coupled with the complicity of the participants who would ignore their doctors advice and rather rely on a no nothing pastor/ priest instead.

Nonono, see, that's what I'm driving FOR, not AGAINST. My outrage is directed at people saying these individuals deserved to die; they DIDN'T. Their only crime was allowing themselves to be suckered by the religious institutions. NOT a crime worthy of the death penalty by ANY means, even self-inflicted. ESPECIALLY not given the circumstances. The problem with AIDs is that even the BEST scenarios modern medicine can provide are less than optimistic; at the BEST, you can expect to live another ten, fifteen years or so. Someone comes along to you in this emotionally weakened state and promises a CURE, are you going to start thinking rationally about this? Chances are: No. The mere THOUGHT that there is a cure from you being not only damned to a short existence but ALSO from being a social pariah [let's face it, AIDS patients DO get treated as social pariahs even in modern society] would be too tempting to pass up. As an individual who has seen it all, endured it all, and SURVIVED it all, I might not be so susceptible to such emotional predation; but is everyone else like me? Is everyone else as resilient, weathered from constant abuse? Fuck no, and I understand that. We cannot put the supposition of our OWN assumed reactions, especially from when we have not been in such a position, on the emotionally-driven conclusions that these individuals reached. We must realize the environmental, physical, psychological, and in this case, virological circumstances they have been subjected to, and to simply brush them off with as cold a statement as "Oh well, six less dumbasses in the world" when these people were suffering as victims not just from this torturous disease but also from the predations of a sadistic myth-cult like christianity, is approaching the same level of moral bankruptcy as these assclown christians are at.