[Faith-talk] Refutation and preeminent repudiation totheZionistsubjection.

[Ashley Bramlett]

Debby,
all good points. We follow and adopt beliefs and its in our heart. But, I 
think blindness and low vision do affect our ability to live out our faith 
and practice it.

While places of worship don't have to follow the ADA, I've seen little 
conflict around here and many in our local nfb chapters attend churches of 
various denominations on a regular basis.

I'll try and find a good subject line and question for  this later.
I'm really not interested in Mostafa's  latest comments denegrading the 
bible.

Ashley

-----Original Message----- 
From: debby phillips
Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2014 10:36 AM
To: Ashley Bramlett ; Faith-talk,for the discussion of faith and religion ; 
joltingjacksandefur at gmail.com ; faith-talk at nfbnet.org
Subject: Re: [Faith-talk] Refutation and preeminent repudiation 
totheZionistsubjection.

Hey Ashley, I think your topic is right on.  How does blindness
affect our faith? And how does blindness affect how we deal with
others of differing religions? Now, that may sound strange, so
read me out.  First of all, I'll deal with my second question.
There are various cultures and faiths that view blindness very
negatively.  How do people overcome those obstacles? As a dog
user how do I deal with a cab driver who refuses to allow my dog
in his cab because he is Muslim and believes that dogs are
unclean? how do we deal with issues that affect our rights and
someone's freedom of religion? For instance, if a law requires
that I do something that I find reprehensible because of my
faith, how do I deal with that?

Then my first question, how does blindness affect my faith? Well,
in one way it does not.  What I believe is in my heart, and I try
to live out my faith every day, showing the love of Jesus to
others.  And I want to be of service to others.  But what happens
when people say, You can't do this or that because of your
blindness.  As a Catholic, I wanted to enter a particular
community of nuns.  (This was years ago and now I am married).
But they did not want to have "anyone with handicaps" in their
community.  Good luck with that, when members get older and have
disabilities.  Churches in the United States are not required to
follow the rules of the ADA.  So what recourse does a person
have? These are topics that I think are blindness-related, and
certainly NFB related.  Thanks for reading.    Blessings,
Debby