Here's a personal story.
This past Father's Day, I attended a family dinner with my mom, dad, grandpa, and uncle.
My uncle is a born-again Christian, and a fundie in the worst way. The topic of religion came up somehow, and here's the story he told me.
AIDS was not spread to humans from monkies. It was engineered by humans by combining several known diseases (he named some, but I forget), and then distributed to gay men in New York City, and to Africa via Hep B innoculations, for the purpose of world population control.
WHAT THE F**K!!!!!!!????
I almost said that. Instead, I calmly replied, "Why Africa? Asia has a far larger population," for the sake of argument.
He said, "Uh...well, AIDS is there, too...right?"
How can people defend a religion that promotes this crap? He honestly believes these things. And I know that there are a great many Christians who aren't bigots, but there seem to be alot who are as well.
Oh yeah, a question...hm...
2007-07-19
04:59:54
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Have you ever heard a more ridiculous story than this one?
2007-07-19
05:00:17 ·
update #1
I should have added that he got this story, and other through his chruch. I think it's more that the chruch-goers talk, and these things come out, not so much that their preacher teaches hate. That would have cleared things up.
2007-07-19
05:20:11 ·
update #2