multiple partners, there would be not HIV/AIDS ?pandemic.? This cannot be denied. U.S.
Rep. Coburn had said ??STDs are a symptom of the illness that truly plagues us. Many
people don?t have the integrity and courage to say that there are consequences to
actions.?? (Wyatt)
Perhaps we can, as finite beings, infer that occurrences such as HIV/AIDS are
examples of divine punishment. Perhaps it is another test to determine our worthiness.
I prefer the assessment of one of the Christians who rescued Jews from Nazi-occupied
France: we apparently needed a lesson. We suffer because we have failed to
understand a fundamental principle which governs human existence. We will continue
to suffer until we learn it, or perish because we failed to learn it in time.
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