How
Would You Approach The Problem Of Persuading Africans
To Practice Safe Sex to Avoid HIV?
Name: Oneil
McQuick Class: SPC1600 Date: July 17 2005
School: BCC
Task: Ask to do a research paper with the given
topic.
INTRODUCTION
The
notion here posed is one of responsibility for the Africans,
who is thought to be more promiscuous with their sexuality
than any other people and hence need to be curbed. However,
though I must answer the question in my opinions of
how to persuade Africans to practice safer sex, I must
also introduce that the origins of their problems and
curbed thereof, is not necessarily sole responsibility
on their part, but is a result of what I call, “The
silent genocide,” one of few that has taken place in
our near history by higher beings to wipe out a populace
for self gains. Already that seems off topic, but it
weaves itself in the big picture and why any efforts
might still seem futile in the light of safer sex practices.
WHAT
IS AIDS AND WHAT IS HIV
AIDS, an acronym that stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency
Syndrome. HIV, an acronym that stands for Human Immunodeficiency
virus. HIV is the virus that leads to AIDS; and persons
with HIV don’t immediately display symptoms of AIDS.
HIV “virus infiltrates and destroys CD-4 cells of the
immune system, which provide the body's main defense
against various infections and may lead to AIDS. HIV
belongs to a family of viruses known as ‘retroviruses’;
unlike in most other virus families, the genetic material
of HIV and its related viruses is RNA, not DNA. HIV
infuses its RNA into the DNA of the host's cells, thus
preventing them from functioning normally and creating
conditions for the further generation of destructive
viral bodies. AIDS stands for ‘acquired immunodeficiency
syndrome.’ AIDS is a clinical condition characterized
by dangerously low levels of disease-fighting cells
in a body's immune system and/or diseases that cannot
be controlled by a weakened immune system, such as diarrhea,
significant weight loss, persistent parasitic infections,
pneumonia and a rare form of cancer known as Kaposi's
sarcoma. HIV is a virus that attacks and suppresses
the immune system, whereas AIDS is a condition caused
by one or more diseases resulting from weakened immune-system
function. Simply put, HIV causes AIDS. HIV transmission
can only occur when an infected body fluid is introduced
into the bloodstream of an uninfected person, either
directly or via mucous membranes (especially in the
genital area). Research indicates that there are only
four body fluids where the virus concentration is sufficient
for transmission to another person: blood, sperm, vaginal
secretion and breast milk. The most common way that
HIV is transmitted is during sexual contact.” Another
twist to this I will not get into, is this quote, “Most
Americans have yet to be told about the role of HHV-6A
in AIDS and CFS;” which might reveal other stuff along
the lines of this essay.
SYNOPSIS
OF THE PROBLEM IN AFRICA
Africa has felt the brunt of the HIV
AIDS plague. In fact, more than 2.5 million people died
of AIDS in Africa in
2002, which is 75 percent of the worldwide toll. By
2003 the world wide toll for people with AIDS were 37
million, but get this, 31 million of those were in Africa
alone, according to the United Nations sources; mostly
concentrated in what is called, “the AIDS belt,” from
then Zaire to Kenya. Some 25 percent of all people 15-49
were infected with HIV in Zimbabwe,
Botswana,
and Namibia;
nearly 20 percent in Zambia;
and about 13 percent in the regions most populous country,
South
Africa. Some 20 – 25
percent of the entire populations of several tropical
African countries are infected. Because of this life
expectancy has dramatically reduced. For example, life
expectancy in 1994 was 60 years in Botswana,
however, by 2003 it had greatly reduced to 39 years.
Not only that, parents are dying by AIDS so rapidly
that the UN project that by 2010 it will be responsible
for 20 million African orphans. With this, African countries
will see declines of up to ten to twenty percent, making
the matter extremely urgent. Even with all this statistics,
it is believed that many cases are gone unrecorded,
as all Africa is now
affected. For instance, “many doctors in Africa…say
that AIDS cases are 80 to 90 percent underreported.”
Worse of all, the problem is severely affecting the
continent’s economy. For instance, many skill workers
are dying at a rapid rate to AIDS, soaring medical expenses,
soaring funeral payments, constant cost of training
replacement workers and other AIDS related problems
are severely depreciating the Gross Domestic Product,
way of life and emerging unique (African) industries.
SYNOPSIS
OF THE PROBLEM IN AFRICA AS AGAINST THE REST OF THE
WORLD
In
Nov 28 2001, which might still be the case today, “the
number of HIV infections in Eastern
Europe is rising faster than anywhere else
in the world.” During that time more than 75,000 were
reported infected in Russia,
a 15-fold increase in just three years. "HIV is
spreading rapidly throughout the entire Eastern European
region - a quarter of a million new cases only this
year," said Dr Peter Piot, Executive Director of
the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).
That might sound startling, but at the same time Africa
reported 3.4 million new infections and 2.3 million
deaths and more than 30% of pregnant women are HIV-positive.
Therefore, though other countries are now feeling the
epidemic with immense proportions, it is with relativity
to other areas and things separate from Africa, and
can never come close to the statistic Africa outputs;
making Africa incomparable
in this AIDS pandemic.
And
note that India and China, most populous of nations,
don't have such an epidemic to proportions of Africa
- yet they are just as promiscuous or even worst, seeing
their uncontrollable breeding - each country of 1 billion
a piece. And they are not allegedly more responsible
in their sexuality either, especially Indians (as poor
as Africans), who bath in a polluted river with feasts
passing by and knowing the consequences of such actions,
with some dying from this "holy" bath. Mexico
city is the largest urban area on earth (27
million people densely concentrated) with the majority
in slums, in the said tropics as middle Africa,
yet no such epidemic. Hence, what has taken place seems
deliberate, as we will explore in the next paragraph
or section.
THEORY
TO FACT – “SILENT GENOCIDE!”
Unknown
to many and might even seems Ludicrous, this AIDS epidemic
could be a well-orchestrated event at the African people.
Before you laugh me to scorn, please read on. Firstly,
it’s not the first such things were done. For example,
Spanish Conquistador Cortes marched into Mexico
City in the late Aztec Empire,
he couldn’t win the battle, then later we hear they
died of small pox, and then he returned and crushed
the remainders. Even where he’s from, the first Spanish
base, Cuba,
biological weapons of disease was used to kill off the
natives. Brinkley noted, “the native population quickly
declined from approximately 1 million to 500.” Only
today we hear of biological weapons and warfare, but
the fallen angels of these super societies have been
using it all along. And probably why you have the AIDS
epidemic in Africa, with possible sentiments as these,
“we can’t Apartheid you, so we will wipe you out with
disease and no one will know, but think it’s coincidental
as we did when we conquered the South
America in colonial days.” If it weren’t
for President Clinton, I heard, admitting and apologizing
for agents ‘infecting black men with VD’s in America’
I would think this overtly Ludicrous. Darn elitist pigs
need to be wiped out themselves! Notice also that Northern
Mexico in history, according to Brinkley,
was spared such epidemic with the contact of Spanish.
Right! Totally Ludicrous, it is because in that area
they wanted them alive. Why? I don’t know, duh, but
it seems it was the first place the Spanish, through
Onate, got encomiendas – the right to exact tribute
and labor from the natives on large tracts of land.
In other words, they taxed the people and coerce them
into labour. They also did something else there (Santa
Fe), intermarry regularly, yet
Brinkley says they were spared the epidemic because
contact was “less intimate.” Clear biological weapons
were used because the people outnumbered them and their
technologies failed. This theory also proves correct
with what later, in colonial times, became known as
inoculation or infecting of small amounts of small pox
for immunity, according to Brinkley. They knew how to
infect animals and humans with a disease. INJUSTICE!
De
Blij and Muller also noted, “The confrontation between
Hispanic and native cultures spelled disaster for the
Amerindians…the concentration of Amerindians into newly
built towns” (Geography: Realm, Regions and Concepts).
Sounds familiar? The same exact thing happened in South
Africa – “white coats”
wanted the land, sent out the blacks (and some black
coats) “into newly built towns,” which was called apartheid.
The Spanish eventually wipe out the Amerindian with
disease (biological weapons) because like Apartheid,
they wouldn’t put up with it, as seen in a few rebellions.
It was first catastrophically used when Cortez went
to Tenochitlan, Aztec prime city, and failed to conquer
them, even with armies made up of other Amerindian tribes
(division tactics). Later we here they were wiped out
by small pox, then the Spanish ravished the city (1519-1521)
– resulting in a catastrophic decline in the population,
up to 90%. The disease was most used here because of
its defense, great opposition and great city and last
one too; to the point that not one Aztec is *^alive today
in Mexico,
and there remain 19 indigenous people – Mayans number
714,000. Notice that Cortez used other Amerindians in
his attack on Tenochitlan, are they immune? It’s too
obvious! The same thing was planned for Africa,
silent genocide. In 1970, South Africa was so-called
independent, but ruled by the white minority, along
with the last set of colonies residing in South of Africa
of all of Africa, the rest of Africa had become independent
(“Colonization and Decolonization,” ibid). South
Africa eventually became
independent in 1994. But look, the last colonial strong
hold of South Africa was 1970’s, they lost; but lost
on the forefront, because in the background they had
a plan – biological weapons, which the world wouldn’t
know of, so in 1980’s AIDS was discovered; and though
it is said to originate with homosexual men in California,
it found its way in Africa at that period and spread
more there than California, U.S.A and the rest of the
world. If in gays, it is said to spread through homosexuality,
which the Africans weren’t at the time – good culture
lock – and even death was a solution of such, even away
from Christianized societies. The excuse of blood transfusion
might be used, but extremely poor excuse given the epidemic
in Africa. The people
were simply deliberately infected. Genocide was attempted.
All
look to the five gay cases in 1981 in L.A. as the start,
then link it back to Africa’s Epidemic, this and other
schemes might be cover-ups as to its origins for silent
genocide. But it began in middle Africa
and nothing climatic, environmental or geographic suggest
its breeding, origins or sustenance. It was possibly
“created” in a lab for this purpose. It was simply launched
there to wipe out the populace in the 1970’s when only
South of Africa was left colonized and the Muslims controlled
the North. That’s why one source said, “during 1970’s
Africa was afflicted
b yet another malady that appears to have started in
equatorial forest, became an epidemic and grew into
a pandemic: AIDS” (ibid).
All
in all, its proper name today is Biological Weapons.
Used against the Indians (Small Pox), probably the early
Europeans (Black Death) and now the Africans (AIDS).
As one person puts it, “biology
accomplished what ruthlessness could not have achieved
in so short a time: diseases introduced by the Spaniards…decimated
millions of Amerindians” (ibid).
Nothing
is particular unique to the tropical middle Africa
that is conducive to the disease spreading, it’s not
a climatic, regional, environmental or atmospheric disease.
Neither is middle Africa
more promiscuous, have more sex workers, more homosexuals
or any another demographics we cede to the spread of
the disease. In fact, other parts of the world rank
higher in these categories. Neither is having “dry sex”
the cause of the proliferation, as absurd as that sounds
and its survival only among the ‘ancients’. But the
epidemic there was just planned to wipe them out. In
fact, unlike other areas of the world, “women and girls
make up a disproportionate 57 percent of Africa's...people
diagnosed as HIV positive;” in some areas up to 76 percent
and they are at higher risk to getting the disease.
In other words, a disease like AIDS would be even more
effective in a silent genocide if the women are more
infected, because the children would be born to it and
born to soon die; a constant replication of the disease
until all are extinct.
Take
the example of the McQuickterian Theory Fact Chart below:
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McQuickterian Theory Facts:
Satan,
chief Devil, control the then elitist pigs of
the south beyond McQuick’s line 2 and in another
time, possible show that he controls the murderous
sect of Muslims above McQuick’s line 1 (started
their religion in the 1st attempted
“suckery” [the term explained in the “Student
Manifesto”] at a possible third seed of God’s
redemptive process; too complicated to stop
and explain now.)
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Theory
1: Knowing from the time of Muhammad (600 A.D) of the third seed, would
possible know of the ethnicity** of the mediator
and hence would attempt reducing that race dramatically,
even extinction; though this seem far-fetched
to us. However, other things hampered this,
example, uncontrollable “white coats” and others
with slavery. Nonetheless… Hence, this plague
in Africa should be called “The Black Death”
and not the former Bubonic plague that tried
to destroy the first West* and landing of the
Eagle. And, what was attempted at the first
Mediator (Moses) through Pharaoh and the second
(Jesus) through Herod was attempted with a possible
the third mediator.
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Above
McQuick’s line 1, the Muslim dominate from the
early A.D.’s, non-Africans pressing down from
the middle east to conquer North
Africa. Below McQuick’s line 2 the
last colonial strong hold (1970) of whites press
up with apartheid, relocating the blacks north.
This forces the indigenous Africans in the middle.
Apartheid falling out was long seen and Christianity
took a foothold between McQuick’s lines 1 and
2. This led to the inevitable, genocide. The
world had developed and this might prove difficult,
especially with the “eagle” coming to the aid
of the weak. So biological weapons was used
and guised, lot less complicated as in the case
of the Amerindians. McQuickterian Theory Fact,
is that a silent genocide was or is attempted,
whereby the motives can only be explained in
Judeo-Christianity and hence many geographers
and scientists have sell themselves short of
the full meaning of their field of study. To
make this theory also a fact is that between
McQuick’s line 1 and 2, one source noted, “the
worst hit countries were equatorial Africa in
what is called the AIDS belt” (Geography: Realms,
Region and Concepts, 11th edition,
page 272)
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Theory
2: To prevent true Christendom from spreading and continue the Constantinian
plot of pseudo Christianity. Muslims crush non-Rome
churches in the North pressing down the area
of McQuick’s line 1 and elitist pigs from the
south press upward with Catholicism (and Anglicanism)
and apartheid. Many of the great Apostolic defenders
were based in North Africa.
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Theory
3: Satan hates people and need the land for various purposes, as with
South America
in the 1400’s. So the need arise to get rid
of them, probably for the richness of the land,
so purely economic. But that is still far from
the big picture, because South America was economic
but he really tried to go before the new denominational
oasis America
would become, the epitome of the first West
ideology; hence, why you have the strong Catholicism
(Constantine
church) in South America.
Plus numerous other reasons.
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Asterisk (*) in theory 1 denotes, West is a reference
of a new society away from the former ancient domains
of the Middle East/Africa and far southern Europe to
a Westward domain where true Apostolic Christianity
might thrive again minus the Constantine false corrupt
takeover of the church; and hammering out truth with
error and hence diluting the faith of its potency yet
give rigor of religiosity that such adherents are persuaded
of it. So New lands were formed in the Upper west that
might give rise to an Oasis of Christian adherents;
which would be administered by God’s hand and usher
in the last great push. Christianity is vital to the
earth and shapes its histories and everything else,
being the salt of the earth is an understatement for
you see that the major plagues of history surrounds
it and almost all things in earthly life. From the chief
Devil fell, the bible said that the kingdom
of God
suffereth violence, means it has continued since then
and now. This is especially most vibrant if there is
a third seed, which would be birthed out of the west
as well or an area of denominational freedom; not that
all denomination preach the correct thing, but that
Christianity is not held down by a priestly order to
which satan is the head – stifling truth, a possible
third seed and the saving of all human kind. So a disease
is said to start from a place called Constantine in
North Africa in the 1300’s traveled Northwards and wiped
out 1/3 of Europe.
Notice where it came from, Constantilope, a message
from Constantine (satan or a chief of his) himself,
‘No such thing is going to be allowed’. One source noted,
"The impact upon the future of England
was greater than upon any other European country."
(Cartwright, 1991). Why? England
was one of most adamant to break away from Constantine’s
catholic church – one of the original red, white and
blue. However, this was overcame and also, Europe was
not that West but breed it, that is, America;
all careful maneuvered if explanation was possible.
But it is still hard to see, when you first can’t see
the beings behind these things. Firstly, we attribute
such plagues to things like a Rat Flea, when the beings
behind these plagues don’t even have to use such things
directly. Job immediately became leprous when God moved
his hands and Satan touched him, Job didn’t have time
to meddle with someone who is leprous of touch something
unclean. How did he become ill with leprosy all of a
sudden? Nothing explainable. Again, take this verse,
"So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel
from the morning even to the time appointed: and there
died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba
seventy thousand men. And when the angel stretched out
his hand upon Jerusalem
to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and
said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough:
stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by
the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite. And David
spake unto the LORD when
he saw the angel
that smote the people..." (2Sam 24:15-16). The
people were immediately dying by some unknown disease
and not knowing why or who, but David saw the angel
doing it by the simple stretch of his hands. We need
some David in our nations after reading this, and see
the evil angel satan at work and like David, repent
and pray to the Lord (Yah). With this, it also becomes
easy to see that healing can also immediately take place
as easy as a plague can. Notice also that a targeted
epidemic was planned with the “Black Death” but it spread
into a pandemic, reaching Asia.
Double Asterisk (**) in theory 1 denotes,
Another fact, 20% of Brazil’s 178 million people live
in squalid conditions worst than Africa and Asia combined,
in the Northeast region, near tropics, yet no AIDS epidemic
as Africa. Though something called “The Boy” (El Nino,
“Donde esta el nino?”) plagued them with drought where some
go hungry and sleep wherever; another “act of sovereignty”
beyond their control. This is the area where blacks
in South America are concentrated, while many are sent
back with a paid bus fare if they venture to the south,
most affluent area; yet when medical complexes, tourism
and others come to Salvador
in the North East, they work and prosper. All this take
place when Brazil
leads the world in Coffee and Orange Juice production/Export
and second in Soya Bean and the world’s leading exporter
of Tobacco, plus has the world’s largest deposit of
Iron ore. It would seem that wherever the Africans escape
the silent genocide they are severely beleaguered by
causes that are uncanny; except in the U.S, thank God
for the “eagle” and though ironical, slavery – for the
dispersing of the race in the west.
Though
God uses plagues on people for his purpose, especially those
of overt hedonistic traits, historical and spiritual analysis
will show that this is purely a work of the inherent evils
previously mentioned. Nevertheless, God is sovereign and
can stop or allow at will anything that takes place in human
history, hence the verse, “shall there be evil in a city,
and the LORD hath not done it?” (Amos 3:6). This includes
AIDS (affectionately called for its fight against sexual
immorality), Wars, a 3rd of the earth dying,
a 3rd of regular drinking water undrinkable and
many more astonishing things. What you should fear is not
biological death, “fear not them which kill the body, but
are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him
which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell” (Matt
10:28); that is, God (Yah). AIDS, created for a silent genocide,
became a world pandemic; “more than 60 million people worldwide
have become infected, including 28 million who have already
died. The majority of those newly infected today are under
the age of 25. If current trends persist, by 2020 AIDS could
claim up to 100 million lives worldwide, putting it on track
to be the worst epidemic in human history.”
WHAT
HAS BEEN THE INDIVIDUAL OUTREACH OF HELPING AFRICANS
There
have been several strategies and helps to the pandemic
in Africa. For instance,
Medications; funding; Christian outreach hospitals,
clinics and counseling; awareness and others. It is
said one of the best short-term strategy is to alter
the attitude and public behavior by condom distribution
as extensively as possible. One such strategy was “Ambush
Theater,” where actors would go on the streets looking
normal and re-enacting scenes that are pro condom use.
Example, “A circle forms around the unfolding drama
in which a husband is accusing his wife of having an
affair with one of her colleagues, with whom he saw
her leaving the train. Egged on by a friend, the husband
yells he knows that this is true because last night
she asked him to use a condom” and it went on. On the
other hand, the country of Uganda
undertook a campaign that is said to have considerable
results. That is, it slowed the spread of AIDS dispersal
through a vigorous advertising campaign on billboards,
in newspapers, and on radio and television – preaching
abstinence. Another thing that is done, might be unique
to the region and best described by the following article:
Past anti-AIDS efforts in Africa
have centered around distributing condoms and preaching
the benefits of abstinence and safe sex. But the efforts
in Uganda,
long a leader in AIDS prevention, highlight the current
thinking on how to best tackle the epidemic:
"Boosting women's economic opportunities and social power,"
says the annual UN AIDS report, "should be seen
as part and parcel of potentially successful and sustainable
AIDS strategies."
Out of sub-Sahara's HIV-positive young people, 76 percent
are female, according to the report. Africa's
adult women, meanwhile, are 1.3 times more likely to
get the disease than adult men. And overall, women and
girls make up a disproportionate 57 percent of Africa's
... people diagnosed as HIV positive.
These numbers are increasingly cited as reason to change longstanding
gender inequalities and cultural practices. A bill in
Uganda's
parliament, for instance, would address a host of customs
- from polygamy to marital rape to bride price. Bride
price is the widely practiced custom of men paying the
wife's family before the wedding. Women's advocates
say it often allows women to be treated as property.
It can be used to give legitimacy, for instance, to
a man forcing his wife to have sex. If a wife dies,
men can argue that the money paid to the woman's family
is transferable - and demand to marry her sister. Sometimes
men want a refund so they can afford to marry again.
All of these practices can spread AIDS.
Uganda's proposed law would make bride
price optional, nontransferable, and nonrefundable.
But such practices have long been a key part of traditional
societies [including today's societies that are not
as affected with AIDS as Africa,
e.g. Islam]. (Dec 17 2004, Christian Science Monitor)
Another
innovation, somewhat unorthodox and risky because of
the medium of use, is the Internet. Nigeria’s “NGOs,
seeking new partners to the anti-Aids campaign, recently
introduced an Internet chat forum as they begin to use
the new information technology to examine all issues
concerning the dreaded disease. Omololu Falobi, coordinator
of the Nigeria-Aids Forum, told IPS, ‘Electronic mail
networking is an innovative, effective way of reaching
the public with prevention information and empowerment
of the citizenry with the appropriate knowledge and
skills to act to stop AIDS.’ Although Internet connections
are low and costs are high in Nigeria, journalist-activist
Falobi asserted that the Internet can still be a "cheap,
immediate and effective medium for networking...With
such internet-based forums, we can and have broken the
silence surrounding AIDS in our communities, but especially
in the corridors of powers."
Altogether
they have been several outreach programs to HIV/AIDS,
yet neither an individual nor a combination of the efforts
has achieve results worth overtly being over joyous.
Nevertheless, the effort must go on.
WHY
HAS THAT NOT WORKED
Medications
that combat AIDS are too high and private drug companies
wont make the products affordable for Africans. Internet
exploits can only reach a few, mainly the well-to-doers,
which make up a smaller percent of the population. Campaigns
are good and if funded can work well, but not all countries
can afford these campaigns, especially with depleting
GDP with the AIDS fatality and medical debt. Empowering
the women economically and socially don’t make them
responsible sexually, for the same women in the west
are of the most empowered and also some of the most
promiscuous.
“Church”
ban on condom use has also hindered its distribution,
for it is still fornication, a sin worse than aids;
plus it increases promiscuity, and with the allege 10%
margin of error you’re bound to get caught one time.
Therefore, though statistic claim it prevent AIDS 90%,
it is not welcomed by the “church.” Another thing that
makes it not welcome is the culture or mindset of the
populace, which the “Ambush Theater” tried to correct,
but even in their performances they are mocked. What
is this cultural set? Time magazine puts it quite candid,
“At another house, the wife was branded a whore when
she asked her husband to use a condom, beaten silly
and thrown into the streets.” Though if you think of
it, most men dislike the use of condoms, as one said,
“it’s like eating the candy with the wrapper.” With
all this said and done, one source got to the reality
of the matter, “researchers Sanny Chen and Norman Hearst
noted that, ‘In many sub-Saharan African countries,
high HIV transmission rates have continued despite high
rates of condom use.’ In fact, they continued, “No clear
examples have emerged yet of a country that has turned
back a generalized epidemic primarily by means of condom
distribution.”
WHAT
IS MY PRACTICAL SUGGESTION STILL AND MY REAL SOLUTION
My
practical solutions are some of the same solutions mentioned
in the battle against AIDS in Africa,
in fact, everything possible has been tried. Not only
being a Christian, but the most astute solutions comes
from the bible, but since the dissolving of the physical
Kingdom of
Jewry to the
present Kingdom
of Christ,
the benefits are most often individual. That is, “as
for me and my house” or as for me I will take this stands.
For it to become nationally or globally beneficial,
then such biblical solutions must become mainstream
education to the masses, then reinforced by cell leaders
or preachers. Solutions such as Abstinence, as the bible
records, “For this is the will of God, even your sanctification,
that ye should abstain from fornication” (1 Thess, 4:3);
this can only be thoroughly successful with the help
of God’s spirit and hence, one must become born again.
God’s design, the way things best fits, is that a man
and woman from birth should abstain from sex all there
lives and then leave their parents’ house to get married
and have sex for the first time. That works best and
no AIDS “on its own” can fight that. However, even if that were tried, our societal
loose values, T.V, Media and all influence would defeat
the purpose and seem to steer us away from that godly
design; hence those must also be taken care of with
an “Apostolic” Christian Awakening. Notice how a similar
trend in Africa seems
to be working well.
“A focus on abstinence is seeing a resurgence…A growing number
of Ugandan groups - led by religious leaders and the
first lady - are hoping to steer teens away from early
sex. It's spawning what one local paper dubbed the "virginity
craze." A recent event hosted by first lady Janet
Museveni showcased 600 "virgins" who've pledged
abstinence. The effort in this highly religious nation
is partly a backlash against recent marketing efforts
to boost condom use.
The trouble with advocating condoms more aggressively than
abstinence or faithfulness is that "many people
who fail to abstain eventually fail to use a condom,"
says Luboga Samuel, a professor at Makerere
University's
medical school in Kampala
and chairman of the Uganda Youth Forum. The group encourages
teens to take abstinence pledges, seek counseling if
they're being pressured to have sex, and choose supportive
friends” (Dec 17, 2004; Christian Science Monitor).
This
campaign has fostered the biggest HIV infection drop
in world history. The occurrence rate of HIV in 1991
was 15%. Admirably, it had dropped to 5% in 2001. The
drop was even more remarkable among pregnant women 21.2%
of expecting mothers tested positive for HIV in 1991.
The number had plunged to 6.2% in 2000.
However,
solution one is the backbone but since the epidemic
has reached this far, to incorporate solution one more
practically, there has to be widespread testing before
marriage, which is solution two. “Abstained” couples
courting shouldn’t get tested before marriage and consequentially
before engagement in sexual activities. The marriage
of the two “Abstainee” will either continue if none
is found to have the disease or discontinue if one has
it. The one who has it is barred from marriage for life
and further sexual activities. Though, the last solution
might help him or her; and marrying of two infected
person is not encouraged either!
Incidents
of infected needles are rare and can be closely monitored
to zero incidents in hospitals/clinics and the same
numeral, with education, if Africans “do” drugs with
needles.
Notice
I bold “on its own” in the solution one, that is because
solution one takes care of the problem in a normal case.
But if you have read this essay in its entirety you’ll
see that Africa, famed
origin of the pandemic, is not a normal case. Seeing
that I pointed out that the epidemic was deliberate,
solution one will prove futile, as the inherent evils
will find many ways to infect the “innocent” Africans.
Hence, the final solution is to call on our creator,
only he can take care of the intelligent Nemesis behind
this plague and only he can clean up the damage that
has already been done. History records him healing thousands
of people in one go. The famed “snake on a stick” medical
sign is one such event where he healed many of sickness
(Num 21:9). Is God dead that he cannot hear, even
the cries of those in governmental positions, like Janet
Museveni, or the founding fathers who held public prayer
meetings in the white house? Hence, the best solution
is prayer – pray the AIDS onslaught out and pray healings
for those infected. If prayer weren’t an overtly proven
tool I wouldn’t even mention it. Why is God hands not
moving in large clusters as of old, though it can? Pride.
That’s why the verse said, “If my…will humble themselves, and pray, and seek my
face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I…heal
their land” (2 Ch 7:14).
To
those interested, you not only say words of requests,
but also believe even without seeing right there and
then, that those words or requests are instantaneously
had. Hence, “believe that you receive it and you shall
have it” (Mark 11:24). Why is it so hard to believe
that a few words can be so impacting, when people see
and believe in the abominable real magicians who say
a few words and wonderful things happen? Words are powerful
when backed by a spirit; it is most powerful when backed
by God’s spirit. This is fully realized if one becomes
righteous or saved, solidifying the fact that states,
“The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth
much”
(James 5:16).
No apologies if this essay seems to have turn out like
a sermon, I tried to make it as scholarly as possible
with the McQuickterian Chart; but the fact is that only
fools are left in the dark, and purposely so, of the
ongoing heaven earth intricate relations in our lives,
explained in Judeo-Christianity. And for those Fallen
Ones of you interested, and somehow like the people
you governor (not necessary liking humanity as a “man”
another “man” for now, but more so like how humans like
pets or the attachment I had with my childhood teddy
bear) hear this:
The
fallen angels who ruled the Aztecs and Mayans crumbled
before the greater being of satan and his regime. Why
you, who are in governmental powers in Africa
and the rest of the world, think you can withstand satan
without God? Like the Mayans and Aztecs, if God doesn’t
intervene, and why would he seeing your fallenness (even
self-deification as with the Mayan/Aztec fallen angel
gods who also accepted human sacrifice), then your people
and nation will have to succumb to him and/or crumble.
Let the people call on the true God, of Judo-Christianity,
Yahoshua (Jesus); and prematurely, you yourself clean
up your act.
CONCLUSION
I
don’t know about you but I have learnt a great deal
from this essay (doing the research) and I hope the
solutions, at least the last one, is put into practice.
*^
denotes that another argument used for the drastic reduction of the Amerindians
is that they crumbled under hard work on the plantations.
Totally nonsensical because as told me often, “hard
work never kill anybody.” This is also a poor excuse
because Mexico
had plantations and haciendas and little to no black
slavery was there, yet they did the hard work and lived.
Black slaves were just more viable than Amerindians
for several reasons – 1) not in a domain they know;
2) No questions asked or negotiation needed they were
bought from Africa
and immediate properties; among many other reasons.
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