Friday, March 8, 2013

Thank God for Broken Necks

Someone in one of my online classes was telling us a story of how his wife was in a car accident and nearly broke her neck or something.  I was only partly paying attention because my hockey game was on at the same time, so I only caught half the story.  By everyone's reaction to his story, it appeared it was a pretty serious situation.  He went on to say that the doctors had fixed her up real nice and she was feeling much better.  The reactions to this were less than amusing. 

"God works miracles!"

"Thank God!  I'm so glad she's okay!"

"Prayers really work...!"

and my favourite , in which he personally said was,

"God is good!"

Wait, what?  God is good?  Your wife was in a car accident that almost broke her neck and GOD IS GOOD? 

How about those doctors who spent about 12 years studying night after night after night to learn how to fix your wife's almost-broken-neck?  Do they get any thanks?   Are THEY any good?

What if, perhaps, your wife's neck DID break?  Would GOD still be good -OR- would that have just been in his divine plan?   I have a real difficult time understanding how people who have these strong beliefs in their God can so easily overlook doctors and other medical staff who are the true saviours of their loved one's lives.

And I won't even get into why we give thanks to gawd for our food when it's ME who spent the two hours cooking the shit...







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  1. But Rebecca, its gawd who is guiding the hands holding the instruments of healing donchaknow.

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    1. So does that mean the beelzebub is guiding when the patient dies?

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  2. good gawd! have you no mercy? get thee to a nunnery and fast before the devil knows you're there. gawd bless stupidville! eat, pray, have blessed mary sex, then eat your 2 hour shit and praise the lawrd. (gawd is gonna get me/you for this). sorry, so sorry, so very sorry, sorry. and thanks.

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    1. I guess you took my advice and got you some percocets today! Right on, Peter. :) Holy! Did Jesus step on your foot or something?

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  3. Ok, so I believe in God. I believe in prayer. But I'd also like to think I am quite rational about it too. While I do think God blesses us all with certain talents and abilities - the "raw material" if you will -- it is still completely our choice as to how we use those gifts. How we apply ourselves, or do not as the case may be, determines their merit. NOT whether God like us....or is mad at us for not putting that fiver in the offering plate.

    Such as, yes - doctors - who work so hard to perfect their ability and give of themselves to heal others. Credit where credit is due! Respect!
    Can miracles happen? Yea, I think so. But I also think they often need some help from us too. Our willingness to assist I guess. God is there.....but it really does always come down to all our own choices. Hope that makes sense.

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    1. oh bother.
      clearly then, not as graced with the gift of words as I thought :)

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    2. Let me rephrase: I respect and understand how that would make sense for you. :)

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  4. That bothers me too. Lets thank the people who actually DID something - not some fictional deity.

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    1. Yes for sure and we can start by my son thanking me for last night's dinner! =p

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