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In reply to the discussion: "You can't hear this story and not see God in it," says woman who lost her arm to a shark [View all]AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)100. If someone did, and it upset them, how would you feel?
There's plenty of review sentiment around this idea for the movie 'Soul Surfer' that came out a few years ago, about the woman who lost her right arm to a shark while surfing, when much younger. Early teens I think.
She embraces the message that it happened by god for a reason, to the degree that If she had the option to have a do-over and keep the arm, she'd happily let the shark take the arm again. She actively promulgates the idea that these bad things happen, including to her, by god and that it's for a reason, to make us grow or experience greater things, etc.
It's a hurtful message to some people
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"You can't hear this story and not see God in it," says woman who lost her arm to a shark [View all]
True Dough
Jun 2017
OP
just like when a tornado hits a neighborhood and kills some people, a survivor says
NRaleighLiberal
Jun 2017
#2
What she is saying can be just as hurtful to other people, as the sentiment you are decrying here.
AtheistCrusader
Jun 2017
#14
I absolutely would be sympathetic to her in person. But not to her message in a public forum.
AtheistCrusader
Jun 2017
#59
It's not about her. It's about the message she is sending, and how it is going to hurt others.
AtheistCrusader
Jun 2017
#81
Because I know people that have struggled with the 'why did this happen to me' question.
AtheistCrusader
Jun 2017
#86
No what a refuse to do is go along with the idea she hurt anyone with her statement.
hrmjustin
Jun 2017
#91
Maybe get out more. Talk to people who have lost limbs/loved ones, etc.
AtheistCrusader
Jun 2017
#92
So, then on some level, you DO understand the impact her message will have on others.
AtheistCrusader
Jun 2017
#83
It is different from yours, perhaps. That doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
AtheistCrusader
Jun 2017
#24
Yeah and most people would see her as a woman happy and thankful to be alive.
hrmjustin
Jun 2017
#25
I'm sorry, but I heard what she actually said. And my empathy circuit insists that the message
AtheistCrusader
Jun 2017
#58