Atheists Spread AIDS [...]
(2) Most people who have HIV (and therefore get AIDS) are homosexuals.
(3) Most homosexuals are atheists (whether "weak atheists," otherwise known as "agnostics:" who say they don't believe in God, or "strong atheists" who assert that there is no God; which is a silly distinction to spend a long time fussing over, as they often do).
(4) Therefore, the largest category of people who have HIV (and are therefore spreading it, since you can't spread it unless you first have it) are atheists.
(5) The second largest body of people who spread HIV are needle-sharing drug addicts.
(6) Most needle-sharing drug addicts are atheists.
(7) Therefore, the second largest group of people (other than homosexuals, although many homosexuals are needle-sharing drug addicts too) is also mostly made up of atheists. [...]
(11) Almost everyone who has AIDS is an atheist.
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The overwhelming majority of people with HIV in the world acquired it through heterosexual sex.
While anal sex is marginally more efficient at transmitting HIV than vaginal, the safest sex of all is homosexual sex between two women: no, repeat no, confirmed cases so far, according to the CDC website.
By religious afilliation, the overwhelming majority of sufferers of HIV are Christian (in Africa) followed by Hindu and Muslim (in the Indian subcontinent).
Could we at least get our facts straight?
I don't have any figures on the percentage of AIDS sufferers who are homosexuals, but I'll state for the record that I don't think you do either.
Homosexuals might tend to reject any religious beliefs they held over time, but that's primarily because their congregations treat them like lepers and drive them out. As I've said before on this site, Christians' calling is not to pit themselves against the rest of humanity as adversaries, but present themselves as witnesses to something others don't see. You're doing it wrong.
The logical syllogism "Most A are B, Most B are C, therefore most A are C" is not valid. One of those would have to be "All x are y"; "most" isn't transitive like that. For example, 2/3 of 2/3 is only 4/9, or less than half -- not most.
There is no correlation between religious belief and drug abuse. None.
People with AIDS might reject religious dogma for the same reasons I stated for homosexuality; if they become atheists, odds are it's your fault.
First of all I would have thought that the largest group of people with HIV were Africans, not homosexuals. Around half of Africans are Christians, about 40% are Muslims and the rest follow traditional/tribal religions. (Source:Encyclopedia Britannica) There are extremely few atheists in Africa.
You can't just base a hypothesis on your own preconceptions and prejudices. Besides don't christian fundies generally believe that God purposefully spreads AIDS and HIV as punishment?
2) Most ppl in the US who have AIDS are gay. Or transfusion recipients. Or the straight partners of people who lie about having gay sex. Or hemophiliacs. Most people who have AIDS elsewhere in the world are heterosexual.
3) Most American homosexuals are made to feel unwelcome in certain churches unless they lie about themselves, which is pretty damned unChristian. So they might not go to church, which is no proof they are atheists.
4) Therefore, no generalizations about atheists, gays, and AIDS can be made.
5) Idiots like to be spared even the appearance of critical thinking, so they believe whatever they're told about AIDS, gay people, needles, addicts, atheists, and many other subjects.
6) Most idiots are fool enough to think AIDS won't happen to them because they aren't gay and don't shoot up drugs. This makes idiots a lot more likely to have unprotected sex.
7) Most fundies are idiots as defined in 5).
11) You're more likely to get AIDS than most athiests and gay people I know. Q.E.D., bitch.
So, basically, people who are at risk of spreading AIDS are people you don't like, so they're atheists? Don't work that way, honey.
Oh, and that's not what agnostics are.
You forgot the blackies!
Oh also if you factor in lesbians (who are in fact part of the homosexual demographic) then the AIDS rate among all homosexuals drops to about the same as Heterosexuals. You guys only factor in homosexual men because it helps inflate your numbers.
The fact is men, whether gay or straight are more sexually active and thus
What happened to (1)?
(2) Most people contracting AIDS are heterosexuals, as heterosexuals are in the majority.
(3) Citation needed.
(4) As there are more heterosexuals, most atheists are heterosexuals.
(5) The two largest group contracting AIDS are heterosexual males and heterosexual women.
(6) Most drug addicts are drug addicts; they worship the drug.
(7) Citation needed.
(11) The area with the most rampant AIDS epidemic is Africa, which is mostly Christian or Muslim. Both religions prohibit contraceptions to some extent. See where I'm going with this, Stupidhead?
What happened to 8 through 10?
Condoms. Also, the likes of Richard Dawkins & EEVBlog's Dave Jones are married & with kids.
I guess that's why you Protestant fundie Christains are trying to out-Catholicise the Catholics.
Because - via just contraception alone - I've completely annihilated your argument.
And as for the latter half of my evisceration, here's Dave 'Mad Aussie Sparky' Jones - and hardcore Atheist - to do just that:
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'Take it apart!'
With The Knife! [/"Crocodile Dundee"] >:D
...and about the 'Two-Minute Teardown' of your 'argument', he'd say 'And we're in like Flynn... it's a bit crusty!'
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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