He can see color!! Puh-raise Juh-heezus!!!!

[drfuzzy]

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.  

[Minimalist]

Fuck her.  Go ahead and tell her.  Sounds like a moron anyway.

[Silver]

Well, I would have waited to see what her response was when those glasses created by man, not god, allowed her son to see color properly.

If she had thanked god, then I would have given it to her.

If she thanked the doctors, I'd let it slide.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

So, God let this young man be colour blind for 25 years, until technology caught up with him. If God is so wonderful, why make the boy colour blind in the first place?

Boru

[ignoramus]

So he can properly appreciate colour when he sees it!
It's all about suffering first! Christians aren't allowed to be content and at peace. That is the devil's work.

[brewer]

god must love science now. So how old is the earth again? Evolution is gods new buddy?

[Gemini]

I don't know what to say either when friends and family pull this kind of stuff. "Grats on getting your tonsils out...but you really need to thank the people who were disciplined and hard-working enough to make it through medical school, not some object of magical thinking."

I don't know how anyone could benefit from anything as obviously non-magic as EnChroma glasses and conclude, "The Great Magic Man loves me! Through a serious of complicated and bizarre actions performed through intermediaries, he solved a problem that he himself was in fact responsible for!"

[Silver]

I am quite fascinated by linguistics, which I believe translates over to forum postings, not that text crap I honestly blame for younger people no longer being capable of putting together a coherent sentence, and I am somewhat picking up on a familiarity with your post, Gemini.

[The Valkyrie]

Never thank the scientists or the medics.

Thank Jebus!

[Gemini]

I am quite fascinated by linguistics, which I believe translates over to forum postings, not that text crap I honestly blame for younger people no longer being capable of putting together a coherent sentence, and I am somewhat picking up on a familiarity with your post, Gemini.

Oh me too, I love linguistics. I took a course on it in college and wish I'd studied it more. Devoured all Stephen Pinker's books on language, and I especially loved his explanation of combinatorial systems.