scigirl

GeoTheo -

In regards to your dissatisfaction with me claiming that Christianity promotes gay bigotry, I started <a href="http://iidb.org/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=45&t=000874" target="_blank">this thread</a>, so this current one can stay on track!

Thanks,

scigirl

Oolon Colluphid

Who said it was meant to help?? If something angers me as much as that, I will be as splenetic as I can get away with. (Hence editing this post, Kevin.)

Since you apparently haven’t noticed, I do and did. I showed why the statement was so morally vacuus and bigoted, and threw in an insult for good measure. Standard procedure for creationists, HIV deniers, holocaust deniers... friggin’ anyone, who say stuff that’s not just wrong, but inflammatorily wrong.

Oh, sure. But that’s not what angers me. It was the claim that those with AIDS have brought it on themselves by (to Paul5204) morally reprehensible actions; that they are less worthy of our concern and sympathy. As far as I’m concerned, antiscience arouses annoyance followed by explanation and refutation; bring in morality based on antiscience, and it arouses moral outrage and anger as well.

Do please explain what variety of “merely misinformed” allows this fool to say that the millions of AIDS victims are less deserving of sympathy that the millions of malaria ones? Should I indulge his ignorance and allow him to get away with any outrage??

TTFN, Oolon

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