rm ([personal profile] rm) wrote2008-08-05 01:55 pm

grrrr

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?).

[identity profile] stardragonca.livejournal.com 2008-08-05 07:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I knew someone thirty years ago(he was my landlord at one point)who believed that God had healed him of his epilepsy, and was saddened by the provinces lack of faith in not giving him an unconditional diver's licence.
They literally believe if you were born without eyes, God will grow you some.

[identity profile] stardragonca.livejournal.com 2008-08-05 07:38 pm (UTC)(link)
*drivers
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[personal profile] sethg 2008-08-06 12:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Perhaps he should have prayed for God to give him a driver's license, too.