Toni Braxton: God Gave My Son Autism for Having an Abortion

[doxydad]

Singer Toni Braxton suggests that God gave her son autism because she had an abortion earlier in life. Broadcast on May 27, 2014.


VIDEO: https://www.freespeech.org/video/toni-braxton-god-gave-my-son-autism-having-abortion

Pretty sure that 's not how it works with worship and beliefs and such things...just spitballin'.....

[ecstatic]

1. I saw the interview and her comment is being taken out of context

She said when her son was first diagnosed, she blamed herself and thought she was being punished for her abortion. She was raised in an extremely religious household.

[Arkansas Granny]

3. I hope she's not still carrying that burden of guilt around.

[truebrit71]

8. Which is further proof of how religion poisons EVERYTHING...

...how sad that she would feel this way...

[hobbit709]

2. So your imaginary sky wizard is punishing you by harming your child?

No self-respecting god should be that vindictive.

"Man has rarely, if ever, created a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child"

[winter is coming]

4. Why did her son have an abortion?

Yeah, yeah, but that makes about as much sense as her assertion.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

5. And you still worship that dickwad?

Seriously? Your God brought down his wrath on your son because of something you did years ago?

[dawg]

6. When something troubling happens, people often look for a way to blame themselves.

Strangely, it's more comforting to think that you messed up and caused something bad to happen than it is to realize that bad (or in this case, difficult) things sometimes happen more or less at random.

I agree that the singer's thoughts are being taken out of context, here. She was just wondering out loud as to "why?". I don't believe she really thinks God caused this for that reason.

[PRETZEL]

9. That's my thoughts also,

on a different scale, when my step son was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at the age of 11, my wife often beat herself up wondering if anything she did caused it.

She still wonders about 11 years later.

[dawg]

10. My ex does the same about our son's autism.

I always reassure her that it had nothing to do with anything that she did or did not do.

[WinkyDink]

7. Well, that's a mean deity if ever there was one!

[snooper2]

11. More proof you can have skills in one area, and still be a fucking idiot

[CBGLuthier]

12. Gee, her god sounds like a real big douchebag.

Why worship an asshole who would hurt a child to punish a parent? Poor choice of deity on her part.

[Shoulders of Giants]

13. So God punishes her son for something she did?

[sakabatou]

14. I know

What kind of fucked-up god does she... oh yeah, the Biblical god.

[Wolf Frankula]

15. Then God is The One You Want To Sue

If you think he harmed your son, he's the one you want to punish.

Wolf