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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November 2nd, 2006 at 9:54 pm
Here is the “complete” text. The author is unknown.
Something to think about……………………
If we could shrink the earth’s population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following:
There would be: 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south, 8 Africans
52 would be female, 48 would be male
70 would be non-white, 30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian, 30 would be Christian
89 would be heterosexual, 11 would be homosexual
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world’s wealth and all 6 would be from the United States.
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer
When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the need for acceptance, understanding and education becomes glaringly apparent.
If you woke up this morning with more health than illness…you are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week.
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.
If you can attend a church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death…you are more blessed than three billion people in the world.
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 you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace … you are among the top 8% of the world’s wealthy.
If your parents are still alive and still married … you are very rare, even in the United States and Canada.
If you can read this message, you just received a double blessing in that someone was thinking of you, and furthermore, you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world that cannot read at all.
Someone once said: What goes around comes around.
Work like you don’t need the money.
Love like you’ve never been hurt.
Dance like nobody’s watching.
Sing like nobody’s listening.
November 25th, 2006 at 9:46 pm
Well, in my case, I don’t have to worry about doing “good deeds” just to go to heaven, if heaven does exists. I’m pretty damn sure I’m not a part of the few list of people that goes to heaven. Also, by the looks of how religion is going, no one will get to heaven. Since all other religion aisde from the “true and genuine” religion are to be damned, and the “true and genuine” cannot be distiguished, we are all damned. See you in hell, bro!