The Hypocrisy of Believers


When a believer achieves something that he has worked hard to achieve; he thanks God, but credits himself. And, when he gets something that he didn’t go out looking for, especially something unpleasant, he says that it is the will of God.

A four-year-old burns to death because of its mother’s carelessness; it is said to be the will of God.

A man who was already battling to keep up with his bills gets fired; it is said to be the will of God.

A man kills his faithful wife because of his own insecurities; it is said to be the will of God.

A God-fearing teenager loses both her legs in a car accident; because some drunk heathen failed to stop when the traffic lights ordered him to; it is said to be the will of God.

A three-year-old gets raped by four fifty-year-olds; it is said to be the will of God.

Nothing wrong with that. Their life, their beliefs.

Anyway, if asserting that every single thing that happens, especially unpleasant things, should be accepted as they are, for it is the will of God — I have a few questions:

Why do believers wear seatbelts? Why do believers use condoms? Why do believers see doctors when they aren’t feeling well? … Why not leave the outcome to chance; seeing that whatever that happens would be, in their eyes, the will of God?

Why do believers shave? Why don’t they let their hair be? Why do believers go to gym? Why don’t they let their being over- or underweight be?

Why do disabled believers use wheelchairs? Shouldn’t their not being able to walk, too, be taken as the will of God?

Why do short female believers wear high heels? Why do female believers shave — and then redraw — their eyebrows? Why do white believers tan? Why do black female believers wear weave — in their attempt to look like white, indian, or, brazilian women — hair-wise? Shouldn’t how one looks, too, be said to be the will of God?

Why do believers erect borders; while a continent is a piece — not pieces — of land?

Why do believers wear glasses and hearing aids; inventions that we were given by science; a discipline that believers titled “religion’s number one enemy” — merely because its claim as to how the world came to being disagrees with the very first line of the book of Genesis?

(It is either believers are hypocrites, or, they merely convince themselves that somethings are God’s will …. just to escape the harsh reality of an unpleasant happening.)




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— December 14, 2011.