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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is so hard. I am an atheist but my best friend was deeply religious (in a progressive/social justice oriented kind of way). She gave birth to a severely disabled child who will never speak, never be fed through anything but a G tube and will ever live independently. One year later, my friend's healthy, young dad unexpectedly died from a brain aneurysm. She had a complete crisis of faith that has not abated almost 9 years later. How can anyone say that this was god's plan?[/quote]

Perhaps people say it's god's plan because they can't think of anything else to say.  As for your friend, 9 years is a long time to be in a crisis state.

Is there something in Christianity about God having a plan?  Maybe God doesn't have a plan.  Maybe there is no God. Either one would be better than thinking God had set her and her family up for such misery.[/quote]

God’s plans for us are not of this world, but of the next.  What happens here in human life is designed to make us grow and shape us for what is to come. I don’t at all think God is setting people up for misery, but rather trying to direct us where we need to go to eternal life.  God wants to walk with us through the world we live in that is broken by sin and suffering.  He’s not causing the suffering but is offering us help through it - if we are open to that.[/quote]

Disabled children are not "life lessons" for their parents.  They are not broken by sin and suffering.  All of this is offensive.  Can you not see that?[/quote]

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