I lack compassion and unconditional love? Really.
Hm. Had I known that a few months ago, it might have saved me several days of suffering and a hell of a lot of worry. See, that was when I had to take my less-than-two-year-old daughter to the hospital. She was throwing up and having trouble breathing. On the way, her lips and fingers turned blue. Turns out she was less than an hour or so from death, according to one of the doctors who helped to reinflate one of her lungs after it collapsed and wouldn't take in air. During the entire time she was strapped to that hospital bed in the trauma room, having a breathing tube shoved down her throat and crying and scared, I was crying my eyes out and asking every and any diety there is to make her well again. And between those thoughts, I was wondering why it had to be her and not me. Do you know how fast I would've traded places with her? In half a heartbeat. It's not even a question. I'd die rather than have her go through one MINUTE of suffering. But hey...I, as a non-Christian, don't have the capacity to have thoughts/feelings like that. Right? So it must not have happened. I must've just been deluding myself.
She turned out fine, by the way, and came through without the brain damage that she might've ended up with from lack of air. Not that *you'd* give a flying fuck. I, however, am thankful for it every single day. You know...the one that can't love somebody that much, and lacks the capacity to feel bad when they're hurt and damn near dying.
Fuck you and your warped idea of only-if-I-agree-with-it unconditional love. Fuck you and your compassion-with-qualifiers. I'd like to see you lay down your life for someone - anyone - you see as "undeserving". Then maybe what you'd say would ALMOST pass for the truth. As it is, you're full of shit.
Fuck you, and everybody like you, for downplaying the real emotions and real concerns of those of us that aren't part of your little brainless flock.
