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A boy was in a serious accident recently.  He just graduated high school, and it is a sad situation.  He's been touch and go.

Today he took a turn for the better, awakening from his coma, with hopefully minimal brain damage.

His mother updates people, and I just got an update from a friend of a friend, a copied email from the mother of the boy hurt.

She says how great it is and god is to make her son better, and says that the doctors are still concerned they aren't out of the woods yet.  And the mother said she laughed at the doctors, and told them god saved her son, and is curing him, they don't know what they are talking about, blah, blah.

Now that just makes me feel terrible for those doctors.  But I suppose they get it often, no credit, it all goes to the imaginary friend in the sky.

ug. Well, she is DELUDED, and if her son dies, she'll be proven wrong in the worst possible way.

I hope for the sake of that boy's life that the doctors ignore her.

If God would have looked after the boy, why didn't he prevent the accident from happening in the first place. God's ways are mysterious   .

Do they really think their god can be bothered with such small affairs as saving one kid's life when there are much, much bigger things for it to do?!  

I said it before, and I will again: Theists, if you are gonna believe in a fairy-tale, at least make it believeable.

Unfortunately, these types are the first to thank god when something goes right, and blame (and sue) the doctors when something goes wrong.  I totally agree with you - it's a real slap in the face to give the credit to god rather than to the people who truly deserve it.

Along those same lines, when somebody gets killed (especially doing something stupid), it was God's plan for them.  Natural selection never gets it's due recognition.

Christianity teaches that you have to give thanks to God for anything that happens, including bad things. Somehow I doubt that that woman will thank God if her son dies though. I think I'll be sick if she does.

Quote from: "Asmodean"Do they really think their god can be bothered with such small affairs as saving one kid's life when there are much, much bigger things for it to do?!  

I said it before, and I will again: Theists, if you are gonna believe in a fairy-tale, at least make it believeable.

Apparently God is everywhere, knows everything, and can do anything, so "saving" a kid while simultaneously doing much bigger things in the world is a walk in the park for the Big Guy. Too convenient for me to believe.

Quote from: "susangail"Christianity teaches that you have to give thanks to God for anything that happens, including bad things. Somehow I doubt that that woman will thank God if her son dies though. I think I'll be sick if she does.

Quote from: "Asmodean"Do they really think their god can be bothered with such small affairs as saving one kid's life when there are much, much bigger things for it to do?!  

I said it before, and I will again: Theists, if you are gonna believe in a fairy-tale, at least make it believeable.

Apparently God is everywhere, knows everything, and can do anything, so "saving" a kid while simultaneously doing much bigger things in the world is a walk in the park for the Big Guy. Too convenient for me to believe.

So... It saves that kid and not thousands of other kids that die or turn veggie every year..? And if the kid will eventually turn into a mass-murderer/devil-worshipper, that would be part of "His" glorious plan too, right..?

Quote from: "Asmodean"So... It saves that kid and not thousands of other kids that die or turn veggie every year..? And if the kid will eventually turn into a mass-murderer/devil-worshipper, that would be part of "His" glorious plan too, right..?

I'm just saying what I was taught. It's fucked up but they obviously don't see it that way, which is my point. ("Turn veggie"? That's a bad thing?)

Quote from: "susangail"("Turn veggie"? That's a bad thing?)

It is when you're talking persistent vegetative state, and not vegan.

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Quote from: "susangail"("Turn veggie"? That's a bad thing?)

It is when you're talking persistent vegetative state, and not vegan.

Oohhh. Okay, I get it. Sorry for the slow moment... (I'm a vegetarian so that's what I was thinking...)

Quote from: "Atheist Mother"And the mother said she laughed at the doctors, and told them god saved her son, and is curing him, they don't know what they are talking about, blah, blah.

so why put the kid in a hospital in the first place. Leave the bed for others who trully wish to be there.

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Quote from: "Atheist Mother"And the mother said she laughed at the doctors, and told them god saved her son, and is curing him, they don't know what they are talking about, blah, blah.

so why put the kid in a hospital in the first place. Leave the bed for others who trully wish to be there.

Amen!  Oh... I mean YES!

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Quote from: "susangail"("Turn veggie"? That's a bad thing?)

It is when you're talking persistent vegetative state, and not vegan.

Oohhh. Okay, I get it. Sorry for the slow moment... (I'm a vegetarian so that's what I was thinking...)

Yup. I was refering to turning green and sprouting leaves, not being on a green diet.  

Quote from: "Asmodean"Yup. I was refering to turning green and sprouting leaves, not being on a green diet.  ;)

What's to happen when he needs more surgeries or physical therapies and his loony mother puts all her son's chips in the collection plate instead?

If she turns down a single surgery she should lose custody of this and all future children.

Quote from: "Loffler"What's to happen when he needs more surgeries or physical therapies and his loony mother puts all her son's chips in the collection plate instead?

If she turns down a single surgery she should lose custody of this and all future children.

It's disgusting.

Yikes. Remember though, God only makes you go through what He knows you can survive, and even if the kid dies, I'm sure He had a good reason for it.

Or maybe it was Satan's will, you never know.

Bottom line... they have an answer for everything  

Quote from: "Pricia"Yikes. Remember though, God only makes you go through what He knows you can survive, and even if the kid dies, I'm sure He had a good reason for it.

Or maybe it was Satan's will, you never know.

Bottom line... they have an answer for everything  

Oh yes, and they're always so short and sweet. "It's His Will (Plan, etc.)", "It was his time.", "God brought him home.", and so on. Not very creative if you ask me.

Quote from: "susangail"Oh yes, and they're always so short and sweet. "It's His Will (Plan, etc.)", "It was his time.", "God brought him home.", and so on. Not very creative if you ask me.

I'd like to hear a more creative response once in a while. "Tod had to be run over by a train as a part of god's plan to implement new train safety legislation." or "Grampa had a heart attack because god needed a fishing buddy." I might as well be entertained if someone's going to BS me.

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Quote from: "susangail"Oh yes, and they're always so short and sweet. "It's His Will (Plan, etc.)", "It was his time.", "God brought him home.", and so on. Not very creative if you ask me.

I'd like to hear a more creative response once in a while. "Tod had to be run over by a train as a part of god's plan to implement new train safety legislation." or "Grampa had a heart attack because god needed a fishing buddy." I might as well be entertained if someone's going to BS me.

But you forget, creative "answers" like that require thinking.