Could this be part of why the Vatican promotes policies in Africa and around the world that kill people?
The Belgian Primate, André-Joseph Léonard, has again courted controversy. In a new book the Belgian Archbishop says that the disease AIDS is “a form of justice”.
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The Archbishop who is seen as a conservative does not pull his punches. Speaking about AIDS he says that this is a kind “immanent justice”.
He compares AIDS with environmental challenges and points to man’s responsibility for global warming.
And we respect religious leaders…why, again?
PZ Myers adds:
I note that the archbishop is probably mortal, and appears to be aging. If he someday suffers miserably from a prostate cancer that is ripping his guts apart, I hope he finds comfort in it as a kind of “immanent justice”. If he should suffer a massive stroke and his brain should bleed and fail, I hope he has a last moment of awareness to appreciate the “immanent justice” of his fate. I hope that if one day he is crossing the street and suddenly finds a bus roaring implacably in his direction, that the destination on the bus’s sign reads “Immanent Justice”.
Co-sign.
Is it always immanent justice, or only qwhen gay men get it? What about mothers with children who get it because their down-low or otherwise adulterous husband is having unprotected sex?
Is it immanent justice, or merely an unfortunate byproduct of immanent justice?
From my dictionary, it appears that this idea is all inside his good christian head.
As the character Julia Sugarbaker said in an episode on Designing Women involving AIDS hysteria on their show, and I paraphrase “If God were handing out venereal diseases to people every time we slept around we’d all be down at the free clinic.”