Do you think that AIDS is a punishment send to us for becoming morally corrupt?

Question

Or do you think it has something to do with maintaining balance to off-set the population boom?

Answer 1

Neither, its just a disease like others that has evolved naturally. People associate AIDs with moral corruption based on its modes of transmission but morality is a human construct. The disease is blind to morality, innocent children get AIDS. Diseases may have the effect of decreasing population and over population may make it much easier for disease to spread but no disease has the purpose of maintaining population balance.

Answer 2

Neither, it's a virus/desease no different than the small pox epidemic, whooping cough, polio, etc. It would be easier to believe that those horrible things were sent as a punishment by God but God is a loving God and sent his only son to cleanse our souls of sin. I guess we'll all find out once were dead! But the AIDS/HIV is infecting the innocent as well as what the world would judge as "corrupt" as did all the other deseases/viruses. Some one did something stupid and now were all paying the price! It's the fall of the Roman empire which started it all...wink!

Answer 3

I do not think so. GOD does not "punish people". HE is not at all like that. The population problem is not going to cause such a problem either. Satan can be involved in such a problem. Man certainly has been involved in this epidemic. It's "cause" came from some really stupid things that man did instead of listening to his environment. Aids will one day be just another lost problem in our society. Hopefully man will gain intelligence from it's ravages and be able to more easily combat other diseases as a result. Have a great day.
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Answer 4

Sorry, I'm not a great believer in deity sent maladies, I thought that kind of thinking died off with the advent of public schools and education.

We are finding out that there are a whole slew of diseases in the world that had been kept in check by forests, lakes and such. The animals and plants that carried them stayed where food and sustenance was plentiful. As we have cut down and dried up things, animals move, thus allowing certain thing out into a world that has no defense against them.

Answer 5

no, through the centuries people often believe that sickness is a punishment. It's just a new decease, and there will probably be more new deceases in the future. Hopefully we find a cure for it like we did for other deceases were people were dying from in the past.

Answer 6

There are many people that believe it was created by man in an attempt to control the world's population by targeting what these people considered "the undesirables" of the planet.

Answer 7

AIDS is a virus, like any other, and as such, questions about morality are totally redundant.

What about people who have contracted it through totally innocent measures like blood transfusions.

How did THEY deserve it?

Answer 8

Neither. It's a disease, and much like the diseases that came before it (plague, typhoid fever, tuberculosis) we will eventually find a cure for it.

People with HIV are already living 10x longer now than they did in the beginning.

Answer 9

Neither. It's just a virus, not some horrid punishment from a cruel god.

People who say those things are very un Christ-like.

Answer 10

I think AIDS is a man made disease created to use as chemical warfare. It just got WAY out of control. I also think that we have a cure for it, but the drug companys would be losing too much money on all their MANY drugs, to actually put the cure out for the public.