Re: The real problem.
Posted by pepsibeth on .
By the way, this wasn't a slur at your religion - I think everyone has the right to believe what they want, and in what ever diety they want. There are so many religions out there that it is impossible to say which one is the right one. Christianity is relatively new compared to the Native American Gods, the Eastern religions, Mayans, etc. LDS is even newer. Why should these newer religions suddenly be the right ones? Maybe they are. Maybe they aren't. No one knows, and no one's gonna know -it's impossible to tell, unless the "correct" god suddenly came down to earth and did an international news broadcast that everyone got to see.
My belief is - believe in what you want. If you have conviction in your religion, that's awesome. As long as someone doesn't try to force their beliefs on me, or try to tell me that theirs is the only true religion, I will give them all the respect they deserve for having their faith.
My post just dealt with how I feel about people catorigizing (sp?) those who don't fit the norm as somehow imperfect.
"Which means retards people who lost their arms or weren't born with a right arm will be perfect again."
imo just because someone doesn't have the "perfect" body or mind doesn't make them less perfect as an individual. Now, I'm agnostic, but if I did believe in a God, I'd like to think that that God would accept each person as perfect as they were, no matter the visual/intellectual faults, since he would have created them, and saw his creation as good.
My son has a whole ton of mental disorders. But he is still a perfect person. Everyone is, no matter what deformities, or illnesses they have. They are what makes him who he is. To say "oh but when he gets to heaven, he'll be better - he'll be made ideal and perfect and whole" is a crock of sh!t and totally demeaning and insulting to who he is. That kind of attitude (he's not like everyone else, so he's imperfect) is why kids like him (or with other things like deformities etc.) are teased and bullied.
imo just because someone doesn't have the "perfect" body or mind doesn't make them less perfect as an individual. Now, I'm agnostic, but if I did believe in a God, I'd like to think that that God would accept each person as perfect as they were, no matter the visual/intellectual faults, since he would have created them, and saw his creation as good.
My son has a whole ton of mental disorders. But he is still a perfect person. Everyone is, no matter what deformities, or illnesses they have. They are what makes him who he is. To say "oh but when he gets to heaven, he'll be better - he'll be made ideal and perfect and whole" is a crock of sh!t and totally demeaning and insulting to who he is. That kind of attitude (he's not like everyone else, so he's imperfect) is why kids like him (or with other things like deformities etc.) are teased and bullied.
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| Re: The real problem. | caerlas -- 10/20/2005 4:29 am UTC |
| Re: The real problem. | johnross -- 10/20/2005 1:33 pm UTC |