Blessing
Blessing - the type that is supposedly dispensed by a “god” - is a word that doesn’t make much sense to me. There is a chain letter that has been making the rounds in the internet ever since the forward button was invented and where the following line appears:
If you woke up this morning with more health than illness…you are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week.
What kind of twisted reasoning could justify your health as being “more blessed than the million who will not survive”? I thought we are told time and again that blessings are supposed to be coming from a benevolent, all-powerful and just being called god? Why would a god choose to bless one and not bless the million others? Isn’t this an example of sheer self-centered-ness? And if we consider for a moment that this is contrary to their belief that there is a paradise waiting for us in the after-life, shouldn’t we really say that the millions who will die of illness are more blessed for entering paradise sooner?
If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation …you are better off than 500 million people in the world.
500 million starving or tortured or a war refugee because god was busy giving blessing to you? This is hard sell. You are indeed special, sucker! What would you tell the 500 starving people, then? That they are less worthy of god’s blessing that their role in the Great Plan is to starve to death?
If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep…you are richer than 70% of this world.
If that is a blessing then whatever happened to the Christian teaching about the poor being blessed for they will inherit the earth? Never mind having the refrigerator, dude. It’s good that the original author stay anonymous. It would just make him look blessed by his god with plenty of common-sense-less-ness.
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