This Is One For The Christians Only...

[MrsLulu]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9jqI4svrNY&feature=youtube_gdata_player

[Mrsdunn]

beautiful!!!!

[birdie1971]

MrsLulu - “This Is One For The Christians Only...”

That's not how this site works. If you post a question or statement, you cannot dictate who comments.

Todd Bell - “He doesn't have earthly-sight...” ... or 'sight' as it's more commonly known.


I'm sorry but I don't see the 'beauty' in this. It's just looks to me like the shameless exploitation of a child's disability for religious purposes. The song has been deliberately chosen to both emphasise his lack of sight and to engender sympathy.

The fact is that Christopher is just another example of religious indoctrination. The fact that he can hold a tune is irrelevant. This is an autistic blind kid born into the American bible belt and lo and behold, he turns out to be a devout Christian. What an amazing coincidence...

[MrsLulu]

Birdie, if my post upset you I apologise but that is why I said for Christians only as I knew what answers would come from the non believers. Why did you open it?
As for the site not working this way - I have seen many posts on here addressed for the attention of a particular Aber!!!!
Also, it was posted in Religion & Spirituality not on the main page.

[naomi24]

MrsLulu, Do you really think that’s beautiful? Really? Can you not see what’s being done here? Have you not noticed that Christianity unashamedly exploits the human potential for compassion? From Jesus’ lowly birth in a stable (which didn’t happen), to the guilt, grief, and anguish of the horrendous ‘passion’, the whole lot manipulates your mind by playing upon your sympathies and upon your human weaknesses …. and it works. If this child’s disabilities were exploited in any other area of life, any thinking human being would condemn it without hesitation – and rightly so – but religion considers it ‘beautiful’. Can you not see the anomaly there?

I agree with Birdie. The exploitation of this little boy and his disabilities is utterly shameful.

[naomi24]

MrsLulu, you're free to post as you will - and other people are free to post as they will.

[modeller]

Originally I played it and almost immediately thought it was a hoax and turned it off but after reading Mrs Dunns post I thought maybe I had missed something and played it through.

I'm sorry for the brainwashed parents and the boy . I know that many parents of disabled children are in a state of denial and go over the top in love and affection , trying to prove to the world and themselves that their child is not disabled but just different.

No it is not beautiful , far from it. Fortunately the little boy is unaware of
the delusion.

[naomi24]

//Fortunately the little boy is unaware of the delusion. //

Regardless of his disabilities, he's not old enough to decide what he believes. This is child abuse.

[Baldric]

Using my freedom to read, watch and comment on anything posted on a public forum, I would just like to say that the expression that comes to mind is;
'Exploitation and Snake-oil salesman'

[anneasquith]

what a lovely voice the boy has. I enjoyed the post.

[sara3]

totally cringe-worthy, poor child. I was expecting a phone number for donations, and a potential "miracle" to be performed.

[jomifl]

This is what separates the 'wheat from the chaff'. Believers will see it as beautiful, moving, etc. Non-Believers see it as exploitative and offensive to use a brainwashed autistic child to bolster their religion. I have to say that I had very mixed feelings watching it, eventually disgust won and I turned it off.

[sandyRoe]

It's a sad fact that some Christians give Christianity a bad name.

[modeller]

Mrs Lulu This OP was addressed to the Christians Only which you said was because you knew // what answers would come from the non believers.//
But what about all the believers ?
The only people I know who would exclude everybody apart from Christians are the narrow sects , especially the Americans.

However amongst the active Abers in R&S there are at least 20+ who would define themselves as Christians but so far they have refrained from answering your post. Why do you think that is ?

[modeller]

sandy //It's a sad fact that (some) Christians give Christianity a bad name. //
//some//? I think that is true of many .
I knew a Christian group who refused to pray for anyone in hospital who was not a Christian.

[cupid04]

I think it was beautiful. I hope his faith grows and flourishes.

[jomifl]

Modeller, that is because in their subconcious minds christians know that they(christians) need to be prayed for more than others. :-)

[baza]

nice voice, good to see the usual suspects are about venting their spleen.

[goodlife]

Can we believe in a God we cannot see? Well, do we believe in only what we see? No, we very much believe in things we do not see. (Matthew 20:29-34)

[chrisgel]

Goodlife - What's your point. What you just posted has no relevance to the OP or anything else. Stop promoting your junk.

[Huderon]

modeller, perhaps most of the Christians are out enjoying the good weather, or perhaps they know that anything they say is likely to attract the usual litany of "fairy tale", "deluded", "indoctrinated" and the like.

As for the video itself, no I haven't watched it, it's really not my kind of thing. But has it occurred to anyone that the lad might actually enjoy singing and might actually like that song ? I realise that notion may be difficult for some people to understand, but it is a possibility.