>>So, if sexually transmitted diseases are the consequence for not being sexually faithful, what are all the diseases about? The ones that are transmitted through the air or from bad sanitation or whatever?
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>>Also, why is it that so many of the same people who want to convert others to their faith also want to control other people's sex lives?
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>I don't quite 'get' the part in your question that says, "what are all the diseases about?"

You figured it out anyway. I accidentally omitted the word "other".

>As far as other diseases... Well, from where I sit they are all a result of man's disobedience to God and His laws.

I'm stunned. Let me make sure I understand what you're saying. The existence of disease is a punishment from God. Is it individual or a group punishment? That is, when someone gets a communicable disease, is it because God is punishing him? If it's merely the existence that's a punishment to mankind as a whole, then are saying that individuals are punished for the behavior of the group? The God you believe in would do that?

And what about the progress of medicine in all this? Today, someone who gets scarlet fever generally survives. A hundred years ago, that person would have died. Are people today more deserving of survival? (Yes, I know there are new diseases, but overall, people live longer today than in the past.)

Taking it another direction, people in 3rd world countries are more likely to die of things that people in 1st world countries would survive. Is God punishing the 3rd world countries?

Sorry, I can't buy any of this. Disease just is. People have minds in order to be able to attack problems like disease. (FWIW, one of the main principles of Judaism is "tikkun olam," which translates as "repairing the world.")

Tamar