God laid down rules for the use of human genitals and proscribed strict penalties for their misuse, the Bible and believers tell us. God also possesses total engineering mastery over what happens in a human uterus (see, inter alia, the Annunciation and Fra. Galvao pills). You’d think, then, that basic justice would require giving every individual a fighting chance of complying with those genital rules by making it clear which team he is on.
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But Heather, Hermaphroditos *was* a god…
The same could be said of poor eyesight and the reading of the bible, or mental handicap and understanding the rules.
Andrew: His parents wisely never made any claims to perfect justice.
I think a believer would offer the rote believer’s response that everything, including hermaphrodism, happens according to God’s plan, but we just don’t understand the plan.
You run into the same logical impass everytime there’s a tornado that wipes out a family of five, but spares the family of five living next door. The spared family will tell you that they were spared because God loves them, or was looking out for them. When you asked if God hated, or wasn’t looking out for, the family that was exterminated, and what it was that family did that alientated God enough to kill them, you either get no answer or the kind of feeble rationalization I quoted above: “We just don’t understand His Divine Plan.”
I guess we humans are Venus and God is Mars, always talking/praying at cross-purposes.
That should be “alienated,” not “alientated.”
There is an old Arab expression: Kick a blind man. Why should you be kinder than God?
Not a problem at all.
It’s the Devil’s work, they should be burnt as witches!
Heather Mac Donald’s question was answered by Flannery O’Connor in her story “A Temple of the Holy Ghost.”
@Ploni Don’t tease us like that. So what was O’Connor’s answer? Can people pray and find out what sex they are? Or something else?