Being a staunch Darwinist, I strongly suspect that there must be survival advantages to humans to think luck is sent rather than simply statistical, even though its statistical nature is easily shown (and even though I so knew and so thought while while murmuring 'Thanks, T.G.').Nobody knows what God is doing or what God did at any time. The actions of God are completely Unknowable. So people who say that God did this and God did that drive me completely insane... No, God did not get you a job, a house or a spouse... You got it yourself.
Have you ever noticed that on the news when someone is found alive after being lost in the wilderness they attribute that to the good God, but they never attribute it to God when someone dies.
These are some of the illogical things that give religion a bad rap.
I am not saying that God never helps people, but there is NO WAY to know if, when or how God does that, so people who think they know are just believing what they want to believe. It is ALL psychological. People believe what they WANT to believe, unless they really think about what they are believing and just want to know the truth, but these people are few and far between...
I have an MA in Psychology and I was a client in counseling for over 20 years so I know a few things about psychology.
Have you ever noticed that on the news when someone is found alive after being lost in the wilderness they attribute that to the good God, but they never attribute it to God when someone dies.
These are some of the illogical things that give religion a bad rap.
I am not saying that God never helps people, but there is NO WAY to know if, when or how God does that, so people who think they know are just believing what they want to believe. It is ALL psychological. People believe what they WANT to believe, unless they really think about what they are believing and just want to know the truth, but these people are few and far between...
I have an MA in Psychology and I was a client in counseling for over 20 years so I know a few things about psychology.
It interests me that in my own case I was in what might be called 'hunting mode' in driving the cab, and that this is the only example of my inventing a deity ─ though I've used exclamations equivalent to 'Thank god [for that]!' throughout my life, many of them rather more vulgar.