A nurse at the hospital I work at posted on Facebook about an MS (Multiple Sclerosis) related incident she had, she being the one with MS. Having a reaction to a steroid she was prescribed; an exacerabation, hospitalized, collapsing into a coma, being revived, walking a few steps with a walker, then a cane, and finally on her own. Now, NOW, that she is under her own control again, she posts for internet eyes everywhere "God is an awesome God - I am living proof."
I do not like to dismiss anyone's Belief, but did I miss something? Now, NOW, that she is better, it's because of God. Why was she stricken? Uh, could that be God? God allowed you to have this disease, God allowed you to be getting worse, God allowed you to collapse, yet you thank God for getting well enough to walk again?! Truly, what the fuck?! I was listening to George Carlin earlier tonight and he was talking about Christian athletes, particularly how to shut them the fuck up. When they win, they thank Jesus. But they are never quoted as saying "God tripped me up at the line of scrimmage, God made me drop the ball." It makes no sense for us to thank a God that does, at least, as much bad as he does good. White, stupid, usually Americans say God is awesome while more than half the world is in poverty. Belief is ignorance, it's saying something is true with no basis of support. That is the definition of stupid.
I don't know if there's a Supreme Being or not but if there is I have the suspicion that he's a callous dictator that we need not devote our lives to. I'm not saying It, if It exists, used Its awesome power to deliver suffering upon this nurse. I think It doesn't care, as it doesn't care for any of the couple of billion human lives on this planet. Humans, in their ignorance, are their most self centered. It's not really about Belief and living for a god, it's about believing your life is really worth something. It's not, in the grander scheme of things. Those around you care, and you care about those people, but the universe will never know of your existence, you will never matter.
Some consider this a very sad way to view things. But when you accept (right or wrong, I admit I could be either) that simple truth that you are no more than the mongrel dog lying dead in the road and no less than Gandhi, you realize you are capable of anything here and now, not waiting for the hereafter. I am not pessimistic; I'm stoic with a vein of pragmatism. We can do and witness great things. I think highly of the beings that do it, not the God they say made them do it. Unfortunately, people hang belief of self on that outside, fictitious source.
I do not like to dismiss anyone's Belief, but did I miss something? Now, NOW, that she is better, it's because of God. Why was she stricken? Uh, could that be God? God allowed you to have this disease, God allowed you to be getting worse, God allowed you to collapse, yet you thank God for getting well enough to walk again?! Truly, what the fuck?! I was listening to George Carlin earlier tonight and he was talking about Christian athletes, particularly how to shut them the fuck up. When they win, they thank Jesus. But they are never quoted as saying "God tripped me up at the line of scrimmage, God made me drop the ball." It makes no sense for us to thank a God that does, at least, as much bad as he does good. White, stupid, usually Americans say God is awesome while more than half the world is in poverty. Belief is ignorance, it's saying something is true with no basis of support. That is the definition of stupid.
I don't know if there's a Supreme Being or not but if there is I have the suspicion that he's a callous dictator that we need not devote our lives to. I'm not saying It, if It exists, used Its awesome power to deliver suffering upon this nurse. I think It doesn't care, as it doesn't care for any of the couple of billion human lives on this planet. Humans, in their ignorance, are their most self centered. It's not really about Belief and living for a god, it's about believing your life is really worth something. It's not, in the grander scheme of things. Those around you care, and you care about those people, but the universe will never know of your existence, you will never matter.
Some consider this a very sad way to view things. But when you accept (right or wrong, I admit I could be either) that simple truth that you are no more than the mongrel dog lying dead in the road and no less than Gandhi, you realize you are capable of anything here and now, not waiting for the hereafter. I am not pessimistic; I'm stoic with a vein of pragmatism. We can do and witness great things. I think highly of the beings that do it, not the God they say made them do it. Unfortunately, people hang belief of self on that outside, fictitious source.