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Ar0ge posted...

I don't believe in God. You know what my parents told me recently after my son with a congenital heart disease was born and had to get open heart surgery at 10 days?

They told me that God gave my son that disease as his way of revealing himself to me, because he can communicate without words, and that I will learn to believe in him now

Lmao. Lolol. I could not laugh any harder I swear. That's fucking insulting is what it is.

If you've never seen it, there's an episode of Scrubs called 'My No Good Reason' (S6 ep14) that touches on this topic pretty well imo; you might even find it cathartic, since the backdrop sub-plot is that Dr. Cox's wife is recovering from pre-natal surgery (in a previous ep Dr. Cox even questions what kind of chance at life his soon-to-be daughter will have if she's needing surgery before she's even born), which plays into the moral of the episode.

The moral of that particular episode is that, unless they're completely air-headed and self-absorbed, even the most devout Christians struggle deeply with the whole 'everything happens for a reason' viewpoint, and they're trying to convince themselves of it as much as they're trying to convince you; if you're willing to read between the lines and arguably smug self-assurance, they're just trying to tell you to keep your heart open for silver linings in shitty, senseless situations.