Oh, I'm so tempted to respond to a friend's Facebook post right now. Her son (25 years old) has always been profoundly color-blind. She always told him it was God's will for him that he was color-blind.
He just got his first pair of EnChroma glasses. http://enchroma.com/ She posted a video on Facebook about his reactions to color - flowers, paintings, his brother's red T-shirt, the green grass, even peanut butter. It's a cute video. But the comments are all about how GOOD God is, and what a great miracle this is, and how the boy has been HEALED!!!
I am so tempted to comment with "take those things OFF! It's God's will you're colorblind, how DARE you go against the will of GOD! He will punish you!" I haven't. Really. (sigh) I haven't posted anything. I suppose I'll just put a "congrats" or "great video" or something, before she notices that I haven't commented and gets snarky first.
I know how a conversation would go: I'd ask about all that "God's will" stuff, and she would say that it's now "God's will to heal her boy". If I point out that it's not a healing, and the glasses were created by a huge team of researchers, she would just say that God guided their research. I don't know why people who believe this way don't see how this is disingenuous . . . God's will is whatever they say it is, in their desperate attempt to attribute something - anything - everything - to an imaginary friend who doesn't exist.
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He just got his first pair of EnChroma glasses. http://enchroma.com/ She posted a video on Facebook about his reactions to color - flowers, paintings, his brother's red T-shirt, the green grass, even peanut butter. It's a cute video. But the comments are all about how GOOD God is, and what a great miracle this is, and how the boy has been HEALED!!!
I am so tempted to comment with "take those things OFF! It's God's will you're colorblind, how DARE you go against the will of GOD! He will punish you!" I haven't. Really. (sigh) I haven't posted anything. I suppose I'll just put a "congrats" or "great video" or something, before she notices that I haven't commented and gets snarky first.
I know how a conversation would go: I'd ask about all that "God's will" stuff, and she would say that it's now "God's will to heal her boy". If I point out that it's not a healing, and the glasses were created by a huge team of researchers, she would just say that God guided their research. I don't know why people who believe this way don't see how this is disingenuous . . . God's will is whatever they say it is, in their desperate attempt to attribute something - anything - everything - to an imaginary friend who doesn't exist.
"The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children."- Albert Einstein
