Yea I’m sure a non Christian made this fan art 
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@AlanLuiz and you liked that post? So you hate allah?
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Stop it. You know that shit confuses old people, theists, and the sarcastically challenged.
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I got a new update from my wife a few minutes ago, this is the latest news on our niece Isa’s progress so far. She actually started school yesterday, and the school was prepared for her. They’ve been able to manage her fluid imbalance with medication, and there seems to be a tiny improvement in her frontal vision.
She’s seeing a pediatric occupational therapist who specializes in eye problems. He will help her to maximize the vision she has.
There’s still no function from her pituitary or adrenal glands.
God is so good(that’s my wife’s opinion, not mine).
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That’s great news. She will need all of the support she can get. Hopefully having some degree of normalcy will contribute to her progress.
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Excellent stuff for her and a big shout out to the school.
However surely “god” could have ensured all this as part of his plan? Oh wait…it was a teacher…right?
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First off, there have been many advances very recently about dealing with pituitary tumors and cysts. Contact St.Jude’s Hospital . . . and even if they can’t take her directly, they have specialists that can collaborate with her healthcare team. See below:
As for the relatives with religious concerns, I keep in mind that people under extreme circumstances can believe strange things. If I slipped LSD in your coffee without your knowledge, you might honestly believe in monsters and demons because you could actually see and/or interact with them.
When humans are frightened, we perceive the world differently. Our senses become hightened, and reason takes a back seat to fight or flight.
Magical thinking seems a lot more rational under these circumstances.
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It’s even worse than this of course, since an omniscient deity would have known what was going to happen, and an omnipotent deity could have avoided it by will alone, but chose not to. So any attempt to rationalise unnecessary suffering with a fantasy like “the fall” is facile nonsense that is negated by their own beliefs.
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Yeah, gotta love Christians for teaching their kids that it’s okay to blame, punish, and hate on women. Misogynism at it’s finest.
I just realized that I haven’t given an update on our niece Isa in quite a long time. We actually got an update and video a few months ago showing her riding her bike with her little sister. That’s fucking unreal.
She had a slight improvement in her vision after she’d been home from the hospital for a few weeks, and her parents convinced her to give it a try, and she rode straight down the middle of their street a few times.
Since then, her vision has deteriorated considerably, so they’re taking her to see a pediatric ophthalmologist to see if they can do anything for her.
She has no pituitary function, so she’s taking medication to help with the situation, which is unfortunately permanent.
So far, she and her family have been dealing with this about as well as anyone possibly can. The fact that her mom’s family is loaded means that they can do more things for her than the average family could possibly hope to do. These specialists that she’s seeing aren’t covered by their insurance, but they’re lucky enough to not have to worry about it.
Plus, god is looking out for her and helping them deal with this fucked up situation.
Yeah, right.
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That sounds like the God I know. Blind a little girl so you can give her back partial site for a day and earn the accolades of the parents. God is just so fucking amazing!
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Yes, I’m necromancing an old topic, but I’ve only just found this turgid drivel, and even though the author thereof almost certainly won’t bother to return here and read my response, it will be instructive for future instances of his ilk peddling similar bilge.
Item one: C. S. Lewis was hardly an exemplar of discoursive rigour, but then this is a commonly observed feature of the mythology fanboy aetiology. Apologetics has a habit of being a rampant exercise in anti-rigour, the substitution of vacuous fabrication for substance, and past mythology fanboys have provided much evidence here and elsewhere to support that disdainful view thereof.
Item two: once again, a mythology fanboy requires education in the basics.
I and others here no more “hate” your imaginary cartoon magic man from your sad little Bronze Age mythology, than we “hate” any other fictional character. We may regard ourselves to be fortunate that said entity is fiction, for if it were real, it would be the nadir of all monsters, and indeed your mythology, if read properly minus the ideological blinkers so often sported by mythology fanboys, informs us of this through its assertions.
But before delving into that territory, I reiterate that I and others here no more “hate” your cartoon magic man, than we “hate” the various other ridiculous cartoon entities asserted to exist in the numerous frankly risible mythologies humans have concocted, or for that matter, such diverse figures as Darth Vader, the Romulans or Voldemort, to name but three examples of fictional characters it would be ludicrous to “hate”.
What you, with typical mythology fanboy stupidity (and no small helping of duplicity) misrepresent as “rage”, is in fact an exhausting exasperation with the mischief that mythology fanboys frequently perpetrate as a result of their infantile attachment to pre-scientific myth. Your post is a minor example thereof, but no less obnoxious for that.
In the 15 years I have been posting contributions in various places online, I have observed mythology fanboys engaging in heinous and egregious abuse of discourse on a scale that makes a total mockery of their pretensions to either moral or intellectual superiority over atheists. From such excremental mendacity as blatant lying about science on the part of creationists, through unwanted sanctimonious panhandling, to a level of “othering” that would give even Julius Streicher pause for thought, mythology fanboys have polluted the arena of discourse with what can only be described as cortical sewage, to an extent constituting a tsunami thereof.
Though of course, history teaches us that your ilk, in past times, were far more dangerously venomous than this. Past mythology fanboys spent 1,500 years in Europe, enforcing conformity to doctrine ruthlessly, using torture implements and actual murder, a bitter irony being that in many cases, they turned on each other for failing to display the purportedly “correct” brand of ideological purity. The whole business of “heresy” alone would, were it not for the savage bloodletting involved, be a peculiar species of comedy of the absurd.
But of course, mythology fanboys, when wielding power, inevitably gravitate toward brutality of this sort, as it is their sole means of distracting from their utter and pitiful failure to support either the assertions of their beloved mythology, or post hoc apologetic fabrications peddled as a pretence of support, with anything recognisable as genuine evidence. If past mythology fanboys had ever had genuine evidence to back up their assorted nebulous wibblings, there would have been no need for the carnage they unleashed, and schism would simply not exist.
But even though the Enlightenment eventually brought a welcome end to their savagery, mythology fanboys continued their mischief along other avenues, including the continued corruption of proper academic discourse without an atom of shame. Therein, they launched into the tossing about of fallacies and specious ex recto discoursive elisions, the meretricious confetti in question being in more or less equal parts pungent with dishonesty and possessing the knowledge value of kapok.
Then, of course, we have that special excursion into the world of effluent known as American corporate creationism, that suppurating and gangrenous cloaca of lies that has done much to drag discourse on scientific topics into a festering cesspit of crude, lumpen vulgarity and wilful idiocy. Exposure thereof has been something of a speciality of mine here and elsewhere, and the diligent will find relevant expositions with ease.
Without that banal practice, of treating unsupported mythological assertions uncritically as fact, none of the above litany of shame could have been sustained for so long. That said obscenity has persisted as it has, is testament to the verminous and pestilential nature of the whole mythology fanboy enterprise, a shabby and feculent endeavour whose cessation is long overdue.
I shall, of course, anticipate the usual distortions, fabrications and outright lies from the usual suspects in response, this being possibly the sole area where mythology fanboys do not disappoint. Indeed, just as I am minded to lament the loss of progress that 1,500 years of European enslavement to dogma precipitated, I shall lament the waste endemic to whatever dreck is served up by those still shackling themselves to infantile past fairy tales.