grrrr

[rm]

http://community.livejournal.com/celiac/860462.html?view=7861294#t7861294

Sadly, it's been deleted now, but someone suggested that our genetic illness might be caused by demons of illness and perhaps prayer is the answer for a cure.

To which I replied that I had a genetic disease, not a moral stain.

To which others replied that there was nothing accusatory about his comments (infested by demons? pray for deliverance? WHAT?).

Comments

[britgeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

*blink*
*blink*

I smell a troll. I mean, they can't be serious, right?

*headdesk*

I mean, they can't be serious, right?

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

Yes, they can. If you are sick, God doesn't love you.

Re: I mean, they can't be serious, right?

[britgeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

Wow. I think I've found another item to add to the (very short) list of statements that will reduce me to spluttering, incoherent fury. Good to know!

Meanwhile, if you need me, I'll be over there, despairing of the human race - some members of it, at least...

Re: I mean, they can't be serious, right?

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

As a civilisation (just humour me here) we are at that awkward age. The dominant culture is a society of displaced peasants, driven off the land, and forced to live in town, for the first time since the fishing villages of the Neolithic.
The U.S. is full of people whose families were driven off the land, hauled across the ocean, driven off the land again.

They have electricity. They just don't believe in it.

[feyandstrange.livejournal.com]

The number of times people have told me that I would be just fine if I prayed harder... be glad nobody's told you that your husband would be Just Fine if you weren't sleeping around on him. Seriously, yes, people *are* that bad and that stupid and that cruel and insensitive, and I can only blame ingrained good manners for my not having beaten them half to death with my cane and told them I wasn't going to call an ambulance because God would heal them.

Ingrained good manners

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

Them manners is mighty ingrained.

Re: Ingrained good manners

[feyandstrange.livejournal.com]

I might *say* it, I just don't usually do it.

This may also be because my cane-swinging arm can't take the workout.

Re: Ingrained good manners

[sethg]

That's why God invented firearms.

[britgeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

be glad nobody's told you that your husband would be Just Fine if you weren't sleeping around on him

Oh, I've received not-very-subtle private messages to that effect - primarily from some devoutly Christian friends of mine. I think them kindly for worrying about the state of my soul, the probability of God punishing me for my wickedness and such and then make a point of removing them from certain filters on the LJ.

And, okay, ranting and frothing a bit, but I do that in private...