The SAB, in its attempts to make a God they don't believe exists into a bad enough guy to continue not to believe in, is almost a prophetic example of spiritual blindness. The first example is this "God makes people blind." This is based upon Exodus 4:11.

The result of Adam and Eve having rejected Jehovah God's exclusive right to worship, rejecting his guidance and protection was sin. Blindness and other disabilities was a product of this sin. (Job 14:4 / Romans 5:12). The fact that God allowed it to happen this way indicates, in a sense, that he appointed it; Exodus 4:11 (YLT). It isn't the way he made people, it is a result of sin.

God has caused blindness and other disabilities on a temporary basis, such as with the case at Genesis 19:11 / Luke 1:18-22, 62-64, and God can in a similar way allow a spiritual blindness for those who themselves stubbornly refuse to see. (Isaiah 6:9-10).

"Sometimes he even makes animals blind." (Zechariah 12:4) It is obviously a figurative reference in a prophecy concerning Judah.

"And he'll make you blind too if you don't follow the Old Testament's laws." (Deuteronomy 28:28) Really?! Has anyone found this to be true? Or is it figurative?

As I have to keep pointing out in these responses to the SAB, we are no longer under the Mosaic Law. The Laws of Moses applied only to Israel up until Jesus. (Psalm 147:19-20 / Jeremiah 31:31-33 / Romans 10:4 / Hebrews 8:13)

"You should ask God to make your enemies blind. (It worked for Paul.)"

Psalm 69:23 - The reference here is one involving the loss of power, since the hip area is essential to performing tasks such as heavy lifting. David was praying that his enemies suffered a loss of their power. (Proverbs 31:17 / Ezekiel 21:6; 29:7 / Isaiah 45:1)

Acts 13:11 - The case of Bar-Jesus (Elymas) is interesting in that he promoted a figurative spiritual blindness, but for this was given a temporary literal blindness. Paul himself had suffered a temporary blindness for the same reason and with the same result. They both became believers. (Acts 9:3-8; 26:12-18; 13:9-12) The physician Luke used the Greek medical term akhlys which means 'thick mist.'

"But don't sacrifice blind animals to God. It is evil. (Malachi 1:8)

In the days of Malachi people were showing disrespect to God by sacrificing blind and otherwise inferior animals that were lame, torn, diseased; polluted bread etc. Instead of sacrificing in a way which demonstrated that they acknowledged their creator and protector, Jehovah God, they considered the sacrificial altar as a convenient trash pit. (Malachi 1:6-8)

"Blind people cannot approach the altar of God." (Leviticus 21:17-23)

This is true, as the verses given clearly state. But what exactly does it mean to approach the altar of God? These verses are regulations regarding priests. Someone possessing any of the defects mentioned, including blindness, couldn't be priests and perform as such, but as the verses also point out, they could eat of the holy and most holy. In other words, if a Levite who had a son that was blind he could worship just as any other person could, but he couldn't become a priest.

"David can't stand the sight of blind people. Whoever kills them will be rewarded." (2 Samuel 5:8) First of all, the SAB here has stumbled upon a most interesting verse. The verse isn't saying what it seems to say which can be demonstrated through a closer examination of scripture.

David didn't hate the blind and the lame. He adopted and loved Jonathan's lame son, Mephibosheth, as his own. (2 Samuel 9:1-13) The verse deals with the boastful confidence of the Jebusites who taunted David saying that the blind and lame could turn him away. Josephus, in Jewish Antiquities, VII, 61 [iii, 1] indicated that this may have been literally true of the Jebusites. Therefore, David hated the Jebusites, including their lame and blind for their own disrespectful arrogance towards him and more importantly the army of Jehovah. (2 Samuel 5:6-8)

Barrett's Synopsis of Criticisms, London, 1847, Vol. II, Part II, p. 518, as well as a KJ margin offers some insight on the proverbial sayings that were inspired by this event.