“God gave you your body, IQ, whatever”

You often read about the talents and gifts God gave someone. This often gets mentioned when someone supposedly “wasted” his “God-given” talents (the fact that a women on Vox Day’s blog uttered the same view should give one pause.)

But did God give me my hunchback? My ugliness? Mental illness? Why does God heal the sick? If Christ—God—healed the sick, why would He create them in the first place? And especially now, where Christ is not with us to heal us – at least in a purely physical sense of healing blindness itself, for example. Science can’t fix deleterious genes. The best we have is eugenics, and that’s unlikely to happen, unfortunately.

(If someone would be tempted to quote the famous verse of Romans 9 regarding the potter and the clay, I’d first like to know how he would feel if he’d be in certain people’s positions. After all, I am enduring my existence thanks to my faith, though I simply reject the cockiness of some regarding genetic illnesses, especially those who don’t or hardly have any. Besides, I think that this verse has more to do with Israel.)

Genetic defects are the result of having to live in a fallen world – worse, a world where almost no one is trying to fix this, and where those who do try are insulted as “Nazis”, “racists” and whatnot. Yeah, right. Man prides himself on all kinds of achievements, especially those of a technological nature, but he is unable to get something as basic as health right.

We cannot even produce healthy offspring and then they praise man with this nonsense? The fact that a piece of trash like me exists should fill us with shame.

So where did this nonsense come from? For example, if I had children, the likelihood that they would be the same ugly hunchbacked losers like myself is very high, especially if they turn out male. My father is a hunchback, and his father was one. I am one myself. This is not hard to figure out. If God has any bearing on our genes, then He is very limited in His ability. Two Swedes won’t have a black or Chinese child. Why? Because the genes determine who you will become. The genes of your parents. This is not hard to figure out.

Which is why I remain sceptical of this interpretation. Some people have a really awful and horrible life due to their genes. As I already said: were I not a Christian, I would kill myself instantly. “Waiting to die”—you are an imbecile, Doktor Jeep! I have been living with this mindset since I’m 16. I hated life and existence from an early age. Job curses his birth but is seen as a pious man. Same with Jeremiah. I cited the verses above.

So many people, even those who call themselves Christians, like showing off, like denigrating “losers” (see the whole hierarchy stuff). But no matter if it’s nature or God who gave you your genetics, you have no control over it either way.

Since we have free will, God is not actively “creating” human beings but people, with better or worse genes, choose to have them – or don’t, given how many are “accidents”, and how it is usually their lust and nothing else that is responsible for foisting another poor soul into this pretty horrible and tedious world.
I am therefore convinced that our bodies, including our looks and IQ et cetera, are the result of chance. God gives us the soul, which no man can create; not that man is able to create a body either, but as I wrote above, it is only through the sex drive—which, trite, modern trash theology notwithstanding, is not holy or sacred—it is only through this wicked sex drive that man would bring another being into this world.

Gómez Dávila:

God does not ask for our “cooperation,” but for our humility.