Don't Waste Your Cancer!

I stumbled across this little gem while poking around at old posts over at Your Religion Is False. A few choice selections from their list about ways in which people "waste" their cancer:

• You will waste your cancer if you do not believe it is designed for you by God.
• You will waste your cancer if you believe it is a curse and not a gift.
• You will waste your cancer if you seek comfort from your odds rather than from God.
• You will waste your cancer if you think that “beating” cancer means staying alive rather than cherishing Christ.
• You will waste your cancer if you fail to use it as a means of witness to the truth and glory of Christ.

Wow. Now, mixed in with that shockingly offensive bullshit are a couple of good pieces of advice (e.g. "You will waste your cancer if you let it drive you into solitude instead of deepen your relationships with manifest affection" -- it's a little fucked up to use this whole you will waste your cancer phraseology, but certainly the basic point is a valid one). So I don't want to say that people don't probably find solace from stuff like this.

But I have to say, comments like "You will waste your cancer if you think that 'beating' cancer means staying alive" are goddamned insulting. Cancer is not a gift, okay? And if it is, I'm never ever ever ever inviting Jesus to another one of my birthday parties, unless he promises not to bring a present.