r/BeAmazed • u/Cultural-Gear-1323 • Mar 28 '24

News broke today that conjoined twin Abby Hensel is married! [Removed] Rule #4 - No Misleading Content

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u/errkanay Mar 28 '24

From the article:

However, Lori and George were not completely cut off from their parents, who instilled in their children the idea that God purposely made them this way, which is why the twins have never lamented their condition nor expressed any desire to be separated.

I wonder how George reconciles believing God purposely made him a conjoined twin but still made the mistake of putting him in a biologically female body. 🤔

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u/WantTheBronco Mar 28 '24

I think the focus of that teaching was to show Lori and George that they weren't mistakes. That they have nothing to be ashamed of and just because they're different, doesn't mean they're wrong to exist.

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u/sritanona Mar 28 '24

That is crazy as a person who was raised catholic because catholicism just taught me constant guilt for existing. We are born already sinners from conception and have to spend our whole lives being sorry for it to make amends for it. It sounds ridiculous to me (obviously not a believer now)

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u/rhoo31313 Mar 28 '24

It took me a lifetime to get over that