I’m stoked she doesn’t have cancer. I love her and it would just be devastating to her family. However, my issue is with claiming Jesus is the reason for this. And it’s not even on a rational level, like most of my arguments against religion are, but a personal one. My dad died of Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma when I was eleven. Guess Jesus didn’t love him enough to “come through” for him, too? This is why all that bullshit that “everything happens for a reason” really just grates me to the core. Sometimes shitty things happen for no reason, and telling someone that they don’t know the wonders that will come out of their own hurt and pain is insensitive. Saying that prayer and Jesus and believing in God prevents cancer or horrible diseases is false and creates a selfish hierarchy of tragedies (i.e. you prayed to Jesus so he made sure your ankle wasn’t broken so you could play in your next tournament; kids dying of starvation and AIDS don’t pray to or know Jesus, so their deaths, while sad, are not even on Jesus’ radar; fathers dying of cancer simply did not believe enough or pray enough for Jesus to give a shit). Does no one see how fucked up that logic is?
She’s entitled to believe in whatever she wants to. Don’t you Americans believe in freedom? And if she chooses to believe that Jesus is reason for it, then so be it. She has he right to believe whatever she wants, I don’t see how this has anything to do with you.
