Musaazi NAMITI | SUNDAY THOUGHT
Those of you who watch NTV news religiously must have seen the story of a diabetic double amputee named Bonny Byamukama. He lost both his legs to diabetes.
NTV found him in a tumble-down old house, and he was struggling to sit up.
Mr Byamukama is a widower and a father of five. He is saddled with his family’s needs as he tries to fix his health problems. His wish, he said, is to get a plot of land and see how he can tackle other problems.
As he spoke to NTV, he invoked God a couple of times. There is perhaps no doubt that he genuinely believes God can help him fix his problems.
But something about this belief does not add up. Let us begin from the simple premise that God is all-loving and all-powerful. When God created Mr Byamukama, he knew that he would use his legs for mobility. God also knew that diabetes is a terrible disease.
If he really cared about Mr Byamukama—and his five children—he would have saved his legs. He would reverse the severity of his diabetes to prevent the amputation. He did not.
Mr Byamukama does not have a proper home, no land and has to fend for himself and his children in a wheelchair. That can be very challenging.
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Yet Mr Byamukama still believes God will somehow come to his rescue. It is all too easy to see how this goes against logic. If God really cares about everyone, as religious people believe, Mr Byamukama would not be appealing to strangers to send money to his account in Centenary Bank.
The fact that Mr Byamukama is publicly begging people to help him financially strongly suggests that God’s help and love cannot be relied on. There is no evidence whatsoever that if Mr Byamukama prays for money, God will quietly send it to his bank account.
With money, Mr Byamukama can easily solve his pressing problems. He can, for example, buy an electric wheelchair. He can rent a modern apartment where the wheelchair can be used easily. He can send all his five children to good schools.
Even if he does not believe in God, as long as he has money, Mr Byamukama can use it to solve his problems. God cannot stop money fixing problems.
The Byamukama example and many others amply illustrate that relying on God to fix problems is a waste of time. Money does a much better job.
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