I never say what religious people should believe, just occasionally fantasise about what might be nice. I can't do the approach to religion that accepts whatever is handed down by some higher authority, but I am perfectly happy to make my own interpretations. None of it changes the fundamental fact that I lack both faith and belief, so it is all just a game.

But we're all imperfect. If you're going to cure Deafness, why not give everyone a genius IQ and perfect pitch and olympic athlete level fitness? Or Xray vision for that matter? (And if you are doing all those things, at least for the people who want them, then I think the situation is no longer ableist)

Well there is of course a difference between raising someone who is currently below the norm to achieve the norm and raising someone currently at the norm to be above it. But hey, it's all fantasy - if you want to be a genius with X-Ray vision in heaven, be my guest.

We are all imperfect according to a standard set by fantasy, but according to the real world standard of what a human can be when built to standard, some people have clear imperfections while others don't. It's splitting hairs to claim that because we all have the odd scar or whatever we are all imperfect - some things matter and are called disabilities, some things don't and are called normal. As I say, it all comes down to fuzzy sets, and even if the boundaries are fuzzy it is ingenuous to pretend they don't exist or don't matter, which I can't help feeling is what you are edging towards. If you are doing it for reasons of self-esteem (your own or other people's) that is understandable, but I always feel that in the long term true self esteem can only come from accepting the truth so it really grates for me.