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I honestly hate this weird anti-ablism movement that glorifies disabilities instead of seeing them properly as bad things. Like, I get that it's unkind to look down on someone for a disability, but if we start viewing them as good or essential things to a person's identity...
...that's not only untrue, it's potentially damaging. Let people have true affliction and be able to look to God for joy and peace despite it and through it.
This paradigm also minimizes breakthroughs in science that allow disabled people to be enabled to function normally...
This paradigm also minimizes breakthroughs in science that allow disabled people to be enabled to function normally...
...and that is a glorious and wondrous thing that we need to be seeking for people, since it is quite literally a gift from God.
This same thing happens with singleness. Singleness for the vast majority of people is bad. They want to be married...
This same thing happens with singleness. Singleness for the vast majority of people is bad. They want to be married...
...or want to have sex, which means they should be married. And trying to glorify singleness (and not just celibate service to God, which is a particular gift) is harmful to people who are going through an actual trial that they need to rely on God through.
Don't treat bad things as good things or essential identity markers. That leads people to glorify something they ought not, and to start looking at the good as an oppression, instead of their trial as a true affliction.
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