A Cancer Survivor Designs the Cards She Wishes She’d Received From Friends and Family

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With belief in a god almost always comes a belief in determinism. It's almost unavoidable. Any of the major monotheistic religions fall apart if you assume they aren't deterministic. Otherwise, there's really only one conclusion, and that's that God gives small children cancer.

Please don't excuse the religion from the conclusion it inevitably draws, btw. It's not giving Christianity a bad name--this is Christianity at its heart. The belief in a God that meddles in our affairs, and is yet somehow powerless to stop horrible shit from happening to people. Unless, of course, you believe that God created the universe billions of years ago and hasn't payed attention since, in which case almost all of Christianity just got thrown out the window.

#somanyreasonstobeanatheist

Edit to add: does it make a difference who gets cancer? I never understood why it should make a difference if it was a child or a 50 year old. Pretty horrible either way.