[Replying to 'how can mentally retarded people accept Jesus?']I believe that people with disabilities that severe could recieve him by believing in him through their mind. They may not be able to communicate like me or you but they can still trust him through their understanding no matter how limited that their mind is.
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Read the OT - God hates disabled people of all kinds. He doesn't want them to worship him, he said so himself.
(If someone could give the specific part of the OT that's in that'd be good. I'm too lazy to read through the Bible until I find it.)
desperately trying to find a way out of the blind alley.
The fundie creed is that you can't go to heaven with out knowing Jesus, and having personal relationship with him (born again, I think they call it).
However, that does exclude children who can't make that decision properly (though their parents pretend they can) and people with this problem.
So the fundies, rather than rethink their poor premise, try to bend the rules, and to invent all sorts of gett-outs.
Big PHAIL all round
Mentally Retarded people can't grasp complex ideas fully but simple tasks and basic concepts (Santa Claus, Easter Bunny Magic etc) they can manage as well as a child. I've had at least two try to preach about God and Jesus to me.
They can "trust" in a lot of things that aren't true if it's repeated over and over to them. Just like all other Christians
Got a call on the suicide hotline from a guy at a half-way house for mentally disabled. The guy that sat next to him at dinner was WAY more disabled than him, and he stole the guy’s dessert every night.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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