Nancy Writebol, an American medical missionary who recently recovered from Ebola gave a press conference today and said crazy things like this:
“The Lord came near, ‘Am I enough? Am I enough?’” My response to the Lord, was, ‘Yes you are enough.’”And this:
“This is not our story, it is God’s story. God is writing this.”Take THAT dead and dying Africans. If this is all part of god's plan, then he/she/it is a moral monster. If god didn't "write" this but allows it to occur, then he/she/it is a moral monster. If god is indifferent to this earthly suffering or is otherwise powerless to stop it, he/she/it is a moral monster and is hardly a god worth praising. This is inescapable.
The arrogance displayed in attributing one's survival to "god" or "faith" (who, mysteriously, works through medicine with experimental drugs that are developed slowly over time -- I mean, what's taking him/her/it so long to come up with the full blown cure?) in the face of so many deaths is truly reprehensible. The unmitigated gall of this woman!
Yes, I know Writebol fell extremely ill while trying to help people who are suffering from a terrible disease. It goes without saying that this should be commended. But if the Lord is "enough", why accept the medical treatment and experimental drugs at all? All I'm saying is, if I were the Lord, I'd be a little annoyed by this.
But then, this is the same Lord who is "writing" the story by creating these diseases only to work slowly and inefficiently through medical science, allowing doctors and researchers to pursue all sorts of blind alleys and dead ends before kinda sorta maybe hitting on something that might work. Meanwhile, the suffering is allowed to continue while he/she/it "works" in these mysterious ways as scientists take the heat for not having all the answers yet.
God gets all the credit and none of the blame. How convenient.
