{"id":6013,"date":"2006-09-08T14:47:50","date_gmt":"2006-09-08T14:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/09\/wheelie-catholic.html"},"modified":"2006-09-08T14:47:50","modified_gmt":"2006-09-08T14:47:50","slug":"wheelie-catholic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/09\/wheelie-catholic.html","title":{"rendered":"Wheelie Catholic"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A blog about inclusion issues concerning Catholics with disabilities providing information, raising concerns, sharing humorous experiences and encouraging prayerful efforts toward social justice.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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I found this website (click for link) as I was searching for some information for a friend who is an amputee. It’s written in book form with extensive analysis of reasons and logical explanations supporting the "fact" that God is imaginary. One argument made is that there never were any healings by Christ of amputees and never have been any healing of amputees.<\/p>\n

The author posits that we would be better off in a more rational world.<\/p>\n

My immediate response to this, being a person with a disability, was to feel used. This increased as I read on that the author used my condition, spinal cord injury, as yet another example of someone whom God would never heal.<\/p>\n

That is simply not true.<\/p>\n

I have been healed. I do not walk. My hands, wrists and legs remain paralyzed. But, make no mistake about it, I have been healed.<\/p>\n

And that healing has come from God.<\/p>\n

If these words make no sense to those of a secular bent, that is fine by me. I am willing to be called a fool in God’s name. But read on, because I can explain what I mean in much less space than a book.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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