Jesus, that spanking hurts!
Spanking model Adele Haze's blog includes this Christian Fundamentalist story-for-children: apparently getting sick is being spanked by Jesus:
"Dear Lord, why am I sick?"
"It's because you didn't tidy your room like Mommy told you to."
"So, nothing to do with me eating food contaminated with Salmonella then?"
Hundreds of years after the invention of the scientific method, more than a century after the discovery of bacteria, and god-botherers are still pushing the ancient superstition that disease is a divine judgment. Makes you proud to be Homo sap, don't it?
But sometimes if we're really being bad or foolish and doing things we know are wrong, the Lord may take away His protection and let us get hurt or sick as punishment for being so naughty.
Sometimes that's why we get sick, because the Lord is spanking us for being naughty. When we're sick we should pray and ask the Lord why.
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"Dear Lord, why am I sick?"
"It's because you didn't tidy your room like Mommy told you to."
"So, nothing to do with me eating food contaminated with Salmonella then?"
Hundreds of years after the invention of the scientific method, more than a century after the discovery of bacteria, and god-botherers are still pushing the ancient superstition that disease is a divine judgment. Makes you proud to be Homo sap, don't it?
posted by Vlad the Impala @ 9:42 pm
2 Comments:
At Thursday, January 03, 2008 4:44:00 am,
Anonymous said…
people do seem to love that argument -- that if something bad happens to you it's because you've done something religiously wrong.
On a radio phone in show, a woman phoned in and said she knew a Wiccan practitioner whose house had burned down, so she drew the conclusion that the woman's house had burned down because she had rejected Christ in her life.
I said, "So does that mean that everyone who gets sick or whose house burns down has the wrong religion?"
"No, no," she said. "That's not what I meant."
I asked her then what she did mean to say. Well, she didn't know.
It's a pity that people don't examine what comes out of their mouths before they turn it loose in the world.
At Monday, March 03, 2008 11:32:00 am,
Linda Margaret said…
I grew up in the Bible belt. People that make arguments like this don't make sense, I know, but they are genuinely trying to make sense of events through reference to the only text that matters in their daily interactions, religion. In the USA, where in most small towns (and there are an abundance of small towns) few people can afford decent health care and where government provision is unexpected (and largely unwanted), religious communities step in and provide support and financial aid to families with sick kids or a lack of community involvement. It's not an excuse for ignorant devotion, but it's an explanation.
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