[misc.handicap] Rude And Insensitive Remarks

34AEJ7D@CMUVM.BITNET (Bill Gorman) (01/03/90)

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>just as unhappy when a person is deaf as the person himself is. [...]
 If He is unhappy about it, then He should fix it :-).
>  On a related question, I don't consider God a being who visits
>handicaps on people as punishment for their sins. The Bible passage that
>says that the disciples wondered who had sinned, the man, or his parents,
>that he was BORN blind. Well, that puts a different slant on things,
>doesn't it? Either the disciples were thinking in terms of reincarnation
>(a notion the Bible does not support) [...]
   On the contrary, there are many references to reincarnation therein.
   Many of the more overt ones were removed by the censors who messed
   with the Bible at the Nicene conference circa 200 AD, but not all.
   The whole concept of who "sinned" has no basis in anything other
   than reincarnation.