[Evil Bible: Handicapped people must not approach the altar. Leviticus 21:16-23]
As we keep saying: GOD (YHWH) is God and He can do whatever He wants; what He does is ALWAYS perfect; and He always has His reasons for doing the things He does. Since God is holy and perfect, He cannot be around imperfection. He cannot be around sin of any kind (that's why NONE of us gets to go to heaven without the Sin Sacrifice of Yeshua who atoned for our sin!)
We simply cannot comprehend God with our limited human mindsets. But, from the beginning He told us that He requires perfection in His Presence. He plainly told us that the offerings we present MUST be WITHOUT blemish. Therefore, it stands to reason that people with any kind of defect cannot approach the altar. It's an act of amazing grace that ANY man is allowed near His altar at all, because we are sin-filled by nature (thanks to Adam and Eve!)
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So imperfection and sin are like Kryptonite to God?
Your god reflects the prejudices of the men who made him up some four thousand years ago. He was the perfect excuse for the atrocities they committed; "God told me to do it!"
If there was, at one point, only one woman and one man, humanity would have become so inbred it would have died out within a few generations max.
We simply cannot comprehend God with our limited human mindsets.
So your gawd can't stand thalidomide babies, even though seeing as "he created" everything, then he's not only allowed them to be born, but would have been the original reason for the existance of said stuff in the first place.
Because that makes SOOOOOOO much sense.
Remember folks, there ain't no wheelchair ramps in heaven, but Satan loves a cripple!
He plainly told us that the offerings we present MUST be WITHOUT blemish. Therefore, it stands to reason that people with any kind of defect cannot approach the altar.
Oh Carmela. Just tell me something. Which perfect omnipresent God would create a handicap in a person and then invent rules to torture that person?, do you have a better argument than repeating that God is perfect, a God you can´t see and can´t ask for feedback?
God! Creator of all existence, supremely powerful, controller of the universe! But with absolutely no form of an immune system, including things that he himself created.
Even among us lowly human beings there are many who are able to see past the exterior of a handicapped person and love and appreciate them for who they really are, yet your almighty god can't do it? Is that why you worship him, because he's a bigotted dickhead just like you?
We simply cannot comprehend God with our limited human mindsets. What about those Bible verses that say that the magic sky pixie writes his law in believers' hearts and that believers have the mind of Christ? It must be nice to be able to have it both ways.
Translation, you have no idea why Jewish people were such assholes by anybody's standards nowadays but, to keep the absurd notion of inerrant Bible, you say you trust God and keep cherry picking those parts that are more understandable, disregard context, and keep on.
Your god can blow me.
Seriously.
Ok, it would be nice to know that if you're not handsome and filthy rich, you're not going to Heaven anyway. If I wanted that, I have Beverly Hills.
You know, I really want to write some sort of witty, snarky comment in response to this that relates to my late companion, who was a lifelong paraplegic due to spina bifida and a staunch fundamentalist Christian. But, frankly, I just get so mad from reading comments like Carmen's here that I just can't think creatively enough to write a properly snarky comment.
So I'll just say: Up yours, Carmen.
Its probably ineffective to respond to such an old post but....as a person who has worked with people with disabilities for 16 years, let me say, "FUCK YOU"! I know its not the most intelligent response, but its the most honest. Would you feel the same way if you had a handicapped child? But you don't need to worry about that because I'm sure in the 6 years since you've made this post you still haven't gotten laid.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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