daily dose of feels

It's a sad story, yes, but how in the hell does something like this get "gods glory" tagged onto it to make it inspiring.

The doctors who made the birth happen?
The parents who took care of the baby?
The genetic lottery that allowed the baby to live even with these conditions?

No no, god did it.

Yet when you look at the baby having the condition in the first place, it's "Oh, well, um, I guess it's just bad luck." No, just no. If you credit god for "showing himself" through a baby, you have to condemn him for fucking it up in the first place.

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That's it for my rant. If you've read this far, you deserve a back story.

A family member of mine died slowly and painfully of cancer. Not just any cancer, but a highly aggressive strain. It eventually spread, despite the doctors best efforts and it ended up in various places throughout his body.

Knowing he didn't have much time left, I ended up taking time off work and spending it in the hospital with him. At one point, the doctor who had been working with him the entire time came to talk to me when I was in the hall. Seeing how sad I was, he offered what he thought was consoling words. "It's all in gods plan."
That's what did it for me, I snapped. Normally I don't give a shit what people believe, but when a doctor says something like that, it's almost like they weren't trying.

I ended up yelling at him until he walked away and demanded a new doctor. I don't know whether a new one came or not because the next day my father died.

It's bullshit to attribute only the good to "god" then leave the rest out as bad luck or random chance. It's all or nothing. I choose nothing.

TL; DR - Don't say "It's all in gods plan." to an atheist.

MFW he said Elliot died

was 4 or 5 years old
mom and dad bring home my brand new baby brother
i love him so much
every day i spend with my mom and my brother
even help with the dipers cuz i dont care if its nasty love my brother
after about two months i wake up 1 day to go see my baby brother
go into his room he is not there
go to my parents room they are not there
go downstairs they are not home at all
find note on fridge
cant read yet so i run it upstairs and wake my older brother to read it
he said mom and dad had to take brother to hospital will be back as soon as posible
im really scared at this point
around 8am parents come home and brother is not there
they tell me he stoped breathing late last night and he was not coming home...
i still dont know the whole story of how it happened thats all they have ever been able to tell me
in ass truth i dont know why im typing this but i just thaught id share it i know how it feels

anyone who actually has a child, normal or not, fully understands this video. If you are one of the haters, trolls, or forceful atheists, then one day hopefully, you will learn better. I am an atheist as well, but religious tolerance goes a long way. If you're forcing that there is no god on someone who's only comfort it their belief that there is one, than you're worse than the Christians who force their religion down your throat.
Luckily my son is perfectly healthy and handsome, but i can fully feel for the parents. if anything were to happen to my boy I don't know what i would do. Pic related, it's my little man.

I had feels.

Sure its a shame and such that Eliot died but imagine the troubles he would have to go through when he got older... mabey this was the best thing to happen?

ill be honest, Im 18 years old an this is the first thing that made me cry in two years

Made me cry like a little girl. toenail clipping for you

when he said how ill the boy was, I knew. That very instant I knew, he wasn't going to make it. I prepared myself for it, I steadied the feels, yet you couldn't hold them back... stay strong, stay happy.

I thought he was going to make it but then when he died just made me very very sad and cry

I can't wait to be a mom.

definitely hit me right in the heart with this...

i wanted him to live one more day.... ONE MORE DAY

As much as this touches my heart, I have a couple things about it. You can't attribute him surviving to god. Do you really think this baby would have lived as long as it did without modern medicine? And even if you do attribute his survival to god, that means him dying is gods fault too. But still, it's a very beautiful thing to see something like this.

OP....you are wonderful....did I ever tell you I love you? Because I do.