My friend’s daughter was born with downs. At age 14 she got cancer, and through treatment fully recovered. Then at 20 she had a stroke and died.
If there’s a god in charge, that god is an incompetent numbskull or just an evil fuck.
I have a fairly similar story but with my brother; he also had downs syndrome and severe heart troubles, but he lived to 32 years old before his heart gave out. During those years, he got sick with all sorts of other completely unrelated illnesses as well that had huge impacts on his quality of life to the level where you would almost believe that someone had cursed him or something.
So yeah, even if god existed, I would never want anything to do with that megalomaniac psycho.
Does downs make you susceptible to other illnesses? I don’t know how that works.
I’m sorry about your brother.
Not Downs per se I believe, but it very often comes with other complications such as heart problems, like in my brothers case, and that likely causes a lot of troubles with the body that messes with all kinds of things like the immune system and so on.
And I'm sure a few "god works in mysterious ways" were tossed around.
Why not both?
Evil annoying idiot fuck
Sounds like God kept trying to bring her to heaven but someone kept muddling the plan.
/s
Sorry for your loss. That whole story made me sad.
You know what set off my bullshit alarm as a kid? I asked about this at the church we attended and the pastor there told me “it’s all part of his divine plan”.
You mean he PlANNED for this bad shit to happen? What an asshole.
I had a long argument the other day with a religious person about how I was saying that even accepting the premise that god exists, is all powerful and all knowing, we basically have to trust that the goal of his plan is for our benefit, rather than him using his divine powers sadistically, or just not caring about us at all. And I wouldn't trust that his plan is benevolent based on the world.
It's not enough to have a plan, you also have to trust him that the goal of the plan is for our benefit.
And the best part is that as an all-knowing God, he already knows everything that will happen so the test is completely pointless.
I learned religion was horse shit thanks to The Brothers Karamazov.
“Listen: if everyone must suffer, in order to buy eternal harmony with their suffering, pray tell me what have children got to do with it? It’s quite incomprehensible why they should have to suffer, and why they should buy harmony with their suffering.” Indeed, Ivan.
yeah, a god that gives me the worst diseases, pain, and suffering just to test my faith isn't worth worshipping. Why test just my faith? let's just give everybody pancreatic cancer, so that we can be sure about everybody's faith, and not just mine. But wait, wasn't god supposed to be omniscient anyway? why does it need to test anything at all.
Am I the only one that thinks the LOL detracts from the meme?
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