Why aren't disabled children evidence of God's anger?

[headscratcher4]

There's a lot of outrage and now back-tracking over a Christianist state senator from Virginia suggesting that women who abort their fetuses are punished by god with more disabled children in subsequent births.

He's walking it back a bit...statement out of context, strong supporter of childern, he was really citing a scientific medical journal study, yadda yadda yadda.


But, if you believe in the kind of god this guy believes in, it stands to reason, it seems to me, that disabled children are indeed an indication of god's displeasure or the active intervention of, say, satan?

How do you determine which?

How is New Orleans an indication of God's anger over gay rights?

Did god make Hitler chancleor of Germany?

Did god let Stalin kill tens of millions?

Didn't god let Obama win the presidency?

What is the line between interpreting events as direct supernatural god/satan intervention in the world and sh*t that happens?

[Hokulele]

The way I understand it, if the bad thing can be tied to a human choice, it was God's anger. If it can't, Satan or **** happens. So in your examples, disabled children are a result of a parent's bad decision, therefor God is pissed. When the US started taking a softer stance on gay rights, God got pissed. When some school children get hit by a drunk driver, the children's death was the work of Satan.

Although you would think that God would get pissed at the driver for the horrible decision...

[headscratcher4]

No, I would think God would resurect those unfairly dead children....

[Hokulele]

Oh, but those innocent children go straight to Heaven, which is so much better than being a zombie, no?




Wow, it actually feels weird to try to justify that sort of thing. Brr.

[headscratcher4]

Zombie children would be practically indistinguishable from most children today.

[Hokulele]

Aside from the taste for brains, of course.

[I Ratant]

Why did god lead the children out of bondage to Pharoah, and let them die by the millions in Europe in the 1940's?
Ya'd think he'da known about that.

[Lisa Simpson]

Why did god lead the children out of bondage to Pharoah, and let them die by the millions in Europe in the 1940's?
Ya'd think he'da known about that.

He was probably too busy answering the prayers of sports teams.

[headscratcher4]

I think you missed the point...God lead them out of bondage to Pharoah so that he could let them die by the millions in Europe in the 1940s. There's a direct relationship...sort of like the Earthquake in Haiti being punishment for the slave rebellon's pact with the devil.

[Fnord]

I'm still miffed that God seems to hate (or at least ignore) amputees and those deformed since birth.

Leviticus 22:21 -- "And when anyone offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering from the herd or from the flock, to be accepted it must be perfect; there shall be no blemish in it."

Romans 12:1 -- "I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God..."

Thus, anyone whose body is 'blemished' or imperfect is less than "Holy and Acceptable to God".

So why would God inflict birth deformities in the first place, knowing that these people would be both unholy and unacceptable to Him? This seems like He's creating an imperfect being, and then rejecting it for being imperfect. By this reasoning, He's making innocent victims of those children that were born after their potentially older siblings were aborted.

[Beerina]

Chalk up another one for the memetic theory of behaviors. Rejection of deformities helps evolution, and the building of a meme about it speeds the evolutionary avoidance of said deformed people much faster than would happen in, say, animals, which would take much less note of said things.

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Meme Theory: 1