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December 26, 2009 by Brandon 3 Comments
December was a very busy month for me. As some of you know, I moved, and setting up a new apartment is time consuming to say the least.
So when I first heard this story, I didn’t have a chance to write about it. And what better time to write about a ”Christmas miracle” than the day after Christmas?
If you ask one year old Nicholas Coke’s mother, she’ll tell you her son is a miracle. He doesn’t do much that other one year olds do, but that’s to be expected when you’re born without a brain.
Yeah, that’s right. This child has no brain, just a brain stem which somehow allows his internal organs to at least function.
So tell me, how exactly is this a miracle? It’s a gift from God that he gave you a brainless child who will undoubtedly die within the next year, and has only survived this long as some sort of fluke? Your miracle is a child who will never even be able to precieve or appreciate the love you’ve given it?
It’s possible that they could just be speaking figuratively when they call him a miracle, but I somehow doubt it. I’m just facinated with these sort of things; when people take a horrible situation, and then claim it’s a miracle… like it somehow makes it all better. Like when there is a bad car accident and seven people are killed but it’s a miracle that the baby in the car, who now has no mommy, came out physically unscathed.
Miracles do not work that way. Not that they work at all, but if they did, that’s not how they would work. A glimmer of hope through a terrible tragedy is not a miracle. The idea that you’ve somehow become a stronger person after having been made to suffer is not a miracle. And a baby born without a brain, no matter how long it lives without it, is not a miracle, although it takes a person without a brain to think it is.
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Here\’s the comment I left on that News site:
\"Miracle\"??? Interesting. I\’d call it a horrible tragedy of nature. But then again, I\’m a thinking person.
So lets see if I have this right… this kid whose existence is tantamount to that of a stalk of celery, lives beyond the normal life span of children who have this defect…and Gawd is working his miracle?
I don\’t supppose it would have been a better miracle of the kid had the defect and GREW a brain; or was predisposed for the defect but it never manifested itself and he developed normally?
Nahh, since those things don\’t happen in the real world some need to invent miracles.
This kid who is suffering from a genetic defect and whose existence is hopefully not causing him excrutiating pain (which we maynot know) is somehow a miracle to theese desperate parents who have so little understanding of reality they turn a tragic biologic mistake into some supernatural blessing.
The ignorance and/or self delusion of religiously infected folks never fails to amaze me.
I\’ve been reading more of those comments on that story. this one almost made me shit my pants:
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whatsgoingon at Dec 30th 2009 7:31 AM
The most loving creatures are the ones without brains. The so-called \"brains\" have done nothing but destroy society and our world. Rock on babe!
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I assume based on that theory, that \"whatsgoingon\" is THE most loving person on the planet.
Figure I should join the fun. Here\’s what I wrote:
Here is a PERFECT opportunity to once and for all PROVE the power of prayer and God to affect a TRUE miracle!!!!
It\’s really simple – just pray to God for the child to become a normal one year old with either 1) a fully functioning normal brain or 2) behave and live as if he had a normal functioning brain. To really cinch it and prove the power of God, remove all medical support beyond what a normal 1 year old receives. Let\’s see if God will step up to the plate and create a TRUE miracle!!!!
Brain transplants, extraordinary medical breakthroughs or fraud (switching babies, making phony reports) by PEOPLE using SCIENCE (or criminality) does not count as a true miracle. Of course if the baby dies, then I guess all that shows that either God doesn’t care or doesn’t exist or hates anencephaly afflicted babies as much as amputees… (http://www.whydoesgodhateamputees.com/)