Another form of slavery..... by God

Today I joined a volunteering activity organized by Friends of Disabled Society. It was a social gathering for Chinese New Year celebration, attended by all the disabled friends. It was my first time joining such an activity.

It was truly an eye-opener event for me. I promise myself to join such activities every weekend if possible. The activity was held in a church, which is really very ironic and satirical, as the God once ordered that people with blemish should be forbidden from drawing near Him, for they may PROFANE His sanctuaries (direct quote), see how seriously the disabled people were once discriminated against. (You don't have to take my words, read Leviticus 21:17-24). Nevertheless, I'm relieved that human's wisdom and society's progress has led us to abandon these kinds of ridiculous laws.

I call disabled another form of slavery, but this kind of slavery is a bit different from the one I mentioned in my previous post. This form of slavery is not a result of what one man does to another man, it is a result of what the God (if there is one) does to a man.

I see many different kinds of disabled friends there, many of them sit on a wheelchair for various reasons: legs are amputated, muscular dystrophy, stroke, spastic, those who don't need to sit on a wheelchair, they suffer from mental illness, hands amputated etc. Some of them have very clear conscious, they know what they want, they know how they can get it, they know how to think clearly and rationally, they can speak very well, but they are entrapped by their physical bodies, their physical imperfections have enslaved them, forbidden them from reaching their dreams, living their normal lives and acquiring many basic necessities in lives.

I got the chance to help some of them to go to toilet. Before this, I have never pondered seriously how difficult it could be for a handicapped person to go to toilet to do his business. The proximity of the toilet doesn't make it easier for them, it only magnifies the difficulties that a handicapped faces. A mere action of unzipping or unbuttoning your pants, washing your hands, flushing the toilet bowl, putting your clothes together after doing the business... everything, every action that doesn't take me even a second to think about how to do it is a challenge for them, and these are only the very basic routines that you do in your everyday life, what about the bigger challenges in life like financial burden, making friends, finding life partner, finding a job etc that even physically sound people like you and I have difficulties to live up to those challenges?

Don't tell me this is a test of faith from God (please think carefully before you say this). Don't tell me this is a punishment from God (I don't think I'm more righteous than them). Don't tell me they will be rewarded for their suffers in the after-life (so are you telling me just leave them alone, since they ought to suffer to receive the rewards?) I seriously don't know how you can repeatingly telling me that your God is an all-loving God in the presence of all these people.

Ok, some of you may say Jesus did heal the disabled in the New Testament, so the God did do something about the sufferings, He did heal them. However, please think carefully, who made them handicapped in the first place? Who created them with genetical deformities? Who created hundreds and thousands of viruses and bacteria and let these micro-organisms breed and spread rampantly in the first place (If according to the Creation theory)? It's your God, the Mighty Creator. He creates the problem, sure He knows how to solve it and He ought to solve it. It's like the global warming, which is created by human activities and therefore, human ought to and have the obligation to solve it together. We created the problem, and we should shoulder the responsibility to solve it, there's nothing so good and loving about solving the problem that we have created on our own. We don't deserve to be praised for solving the problem that we have created, why a different standard when it comes to your God?