According to the WHO:
- HIV/AIDS kills 1.78 million people per year.
- Diarrhoeal disease kills 2.46 million people per year, many of them children and is easily treatable.
Guess which gets a day dedicated to it? The former: World Aids Day is coming up on December 1st.
Guess which disease the Anglican Church of Canada has taken upon itself to enshrine in liturgy? I know, it’s like shooting fish in a barrel: Aids.
Guess the reason for this – choose one of the following:
- The Anglican Church of Canada is more interested in sexually transmitted diseases than other diseases that kill more people, especially if the other diseases involve diarrhoea. That is because sex is a part of the Anglican spiritual journey and diarrhoea is just yucky.
- The Anglican Church of Canada is obsessed with the Anglican spiritual journey, therefore it is obsessed with sex. At the outer reaches of the Anglican spiritual journey we find homosexual sex. So it is particularly obsessed with that.
- The Anglican Church of Canada has so many homosexual priests that their interest in Aids is really the expression of a desire for self-preservation: homosexual sex is still the preferred way to contract Aids.
- All of the above.
How disgusting it is that there are so many people more concerned with those who have committed themselves to sexual depravity than to innocent children.
Not wishing a deadly desease on anyone, but those who know the risks yet still commit the acts are reaping what they sow. Thus they should accept their own responsiblities for the conditions which they have created for themselves. Such responsiblities should include repentance.
You forgot to mention a few other UN health-related “World Days”:
cancer;
tuberculosis;
autism awareness;
health;
malaria;
no-tobacco;
hepatitis;
heart;
rabies;
mental health;
diabetes; and
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
You should be able to come up with something good for World Rabies Day.