"Editorial" on Issues: AIDS... Iraq...
William Stoertz
February 6, 1998
We should of course be serious and concerned when we see
what is happening with AIDS, that now 40 million people around
the world are infected with HIV virus and thus condemned to
almost certain death within ten years or so, and it is spreading
like wildfire.
How could someone be so irresponsible as to say, "Oh, it is
God's judgment; let the sinners perish."?
When we see that our President himself is up to his neck
in scandals relating to more than one partner, we cannot say or
think, "It is just him. Let's get him. Let the ax fall." Then
we are like sharks ourselves.
Instead we should see the President as the figurehead and
typical, I suppose, model or example of the whole nation. What
he is doing, we all have been doing. We also elected him, TWICE!
He must be an extension of our own personality and character. He
is, at least supposed to be, the Father figure for the nation.
So how can we just accuse him without reflecting it on ourselves?
Although I am not saying the facts shouldn't be brought to light
and justice done, and probably he shouldn't be in office for this.
It means, who is the sinners? It is all of us. Me.
It is a national disgrace when the President behaves in such
a way, and it reflects upon all of us.
So what about AIDS? Definitely, we should work hard for a
solution. Do you know that, for all the billions of dollars spent
on AIDS research, scientists have more than doubled the knowledge
of genetics, cell machinery, medicine, biochemistry, techniques?
It is a tremendous payoff, like the space program in the sixties
and seventies.
Furthermore, look at the heart (attitude) of those working
hard on the problem and championing research: They are shedding
their tears in desperate agony, concerned for the victims of the
disease, and now they are even risking their own lives. Did you
read the recent report that 300 top doctors (not fools) volunteered
to inject themselves with heat-weakened HIV serum, to try and
develop antibodies to HIV, so as to innoculate the whole population,
as well as treat the sick? They are facing death themselves if it
fails, or if a mistake was made. Because of such a sacrificial
attitude and spirit, surely the cure is forthcoming.
What is the internal basis for a cure for AIDS? In a word,
it is "pure love and true family". Get it? That is the exact
prevention, and the cure, what's more. Another way to put it:
"Absolute sex", as opposed to "free sex". Absolute sex binds
true couples together in eternal marriage, whereas free sex is
irresponsible and destructive. Absolute sex is more joyful and
gives long-lasting satisfaction than furtive or rebellious free
sex.
The reason we need a moral cure or solution before we can have
any external (medical) cure, is that the disease itself was caused
and spread by immoral behavior (sex with animals, mixing blood,
drug abuse, homosexuality, and free sex). So there will be no cure
as long as people keep doing that.
Now that the internal or root (fundamental) cure is established,
scientists, lo and behold! have come up with some very effective
preventative and healing treatments. Simultaneously both in Russia
and the USA were announced two separate cures, one using radioactivity
and the other using vaccination.
Of course, the quest is not done. The cures and treatments must
get better and better. Then the disease must be eradicated. Otherwise
all those people who were infected will pass the virus on to their
children through their genes.
But the social, moral and ethical cures, are the following:
(1) Teach "Pure Love and True Family Values" throughout the world at
all schools and working places. This is not merely abstinence, which
is rather unattractive and puritanical. Rather, this is aggressive,
family centered, exciting, positive, and constructive education for
successful and meaningful families.
(2) Administer the "Blessing Ceremony" to all people in the world.
For married couples, they should rededicate their vows.
For single adults, they should get married and stay faithful, centered
upon this marriage Blessing.
For young people, even children, they must be administered the
symbolic "Holy Wine" approved by both religious and social organizations,
which purifies (sanctifies) their blood and enables them to have pure
and unstained marriage relations in the future, and in the meantime
they must stay chaste and receive family education.
Babies in the womb, already conceived, are sanctified (purified) when
their pregnant mommies receive the Holy Wine.
It is hard to believe that such a cure would work, but in fact
it does very well, and the sickness never comes back, unless the
people engage in illicit relations again. Even if some accident or
mistake occurs, it can be corrected and restored too.
That's why we are desperate to advertise our cure for the
family sickness affecting people the world over, and are working as
hard as possible to spread this cure all over the world through the
Blessing. So far 55 million couples have been Blessed in this way.
Iraq? Oh, come, not again...!?
Yes! Because something we did not do right the last time. That's
why the same exact problem has returned to plague us again.
What was our mistake before? Basically, a cowboy mentality, that
we can go in there with guns blazing, shoot the bad guy, and get out
clean. I'm not even going to speak about imperialistic shades and all
that messy ideological stuff. Anyway, since America's foundation, we
have had the problem of solving problems, not in the Christian way,
but by the high road -- power, money, weapons, politics, business deals.
After we hit Iraq the last time, Saddam was still there, and he
kept making weapons and igniting his people, and we certainly didn't
win any of them as friends.
Interestingly, the last time 'round, 1990-'91, Saddam himself
suggested a solution: he said, "Why don't you, instead, with all that
money, build us a Disneyland here, and you'll have all of us for
friends!" Of course, we were all too hot under the collar for that.
Anyway, it is not so simple. Of course, they are evil aggressors, and
in the same way, we should have stopped Hitler sooner. But still, it
didn't work, let's face it.
What is the sense in Saddam's suggestion? It means, at the core,
that love is the key, and from the beginning, we should be striving
harder to love and serve the whole world, with all our blessings, and
that we neglected many people, and now they feel frustrated, jealous,
and resentful. So they struck, like Cain or Esau. It's the same old
story.
But, the solution is not simple at all, especially to repair
long-standing, historical (4,000 years) damage done.
Anyway, for sure, this time around, America will not do well to
use unilateral military force. We will lose friends, and forever
seal off our chances with the Iraqis and some others too. I think,
instead, we are given a second chance to find a more mature and
civilized solution. It will required world-level consultation, some
humility on our part, and we should all grow through the process.
Then, by and by, we might even start to meet Iraqis, and get to know
them, and find they are quite likeable (as I have also met some
on the streets here in Moscow).
Granted, the first time, in 1990-'91, our own national pride
was very much at stake, and we had suffered badly in Vietnam and
Afghanistan and other places, and had only begun to lift up our
spirits with Grenada. So, as I remember, how we came to the Persian
Gulf in 1990, we needed to unite and find a patriotic cause. So it
is very much understandable, and likewise our movement supported
this patriotic cause at that time. But now, what is required is a
deeper, more fundamental, more advanced, more harmonizing solution.
I think it is forthcoming.
And God help us that Clinton won't try to save his own face by
trying to call attention away from his personal scandals, by calling
a rash attack on Iraq at this time, in such a political move. It
would be the worst mistake, for the whole nation and world.
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