I'm not an atheist in the hardcore sense. I'm really one of those hippy, fence-sitting, pseudo-agnostic, haven't-made-their-mind-up people that mostly don't give a shit. I like the idea of religion, I just think it's unlikely and I think leaving it up to men to organise was and is a terrible idea. I'm pretty sure that being generous and considerate is more important than not fucking before some third party agrees you're in love, legally, or making sure to only lick the genitals of the opposite sex.
But if God exists, in the biblical sense, I can't think of any better evidence that he's a complete twat than Multiple Sclerosis (MS.)
I get that he can't stop wars because, you know, free will. I get malaria and cancer and all these tragic terminal illnesses because, you know, population control. I even get making 98% of the Earth's water undrinkable because, yknow, wouldn't want to make things too easy!
But what sort of sick, twisted, fucked-up psychopath lets loose a disease that spends decades degenerating a person's life from fully functioning to: permanent pain, unable to speak clearly, unable to swallow properly, unable to control bowels or bladder, permanent confusion, child-like mental regression, zero memory, zero mobility, loss of control of limbs, twitching, blindness, deafness, proneness to infections, chronic fatigue, depression, anxiety and fuck knows what else.
Oh and there's not a cure but it probably won't kill you (on it's own), you've just got to "live" with it.
Nice one, guy.
(Feel free to substitute MS for whateverthefuckelse, I'm aware there's plenty of other equally shit conditions that do little other than torture and destroy lives.)
PS: It's not Lupus.
