And I’m still closeted enough in certain ways to keep my facebook account completely separate from the rest of my online self. So I guess you’ll just have to start a real blog or join the forums Otherwise, see you around the comments, and also: nice top hat!

Thanks for taking an interest — I’m flattered!

~David D.G.

Within minutes of my reading this fine post, I received an email from a fundie friend of mine who credits God for fixing her family’s current medical-bill crisis.

She’s giving God the credit, instead of:

* The people in the charitable organization that paid for her husband’s hospital bill when he had a heart attack. (Even if it is a religious charity, which it may well be, the point is that people contributed money to it, and people decided to award some of this money to them to help them out. God played no part in this whatsoever.)

* The state agency that paid for her fancy impaired-vision equipment (an agency funded by their own taxes!).

* The insurance company that paid for their daughter’s throat surgery and orthodontics (even though they paid for this insurance, and it’s just doing what it’s supposed to do!).

(*facepalm*)

I’m not even going to bother pointing out the stupidity of this to them; it would only upset them, not enlighten them. But I had to blow off a little steam here about it, and I may blog about it at slightly greater length. It’s just depressing.

~David D.G.

I guess the problem most people (including myself) have with atributing good things to god, is that it implies that god helped you, but chose not to help the others in which the situation turned out the other way..

Such as in a car accident, or fatal disease like cancer when someone attributes their success to god while forgetting about vast numbers of people, that would be just as worthy of some divine help, that don’t make it through the same situation…

But I guess that’s all in god’s plan, right ? (as a religious person would quickly say after reading this post)

I simply want to know what part of the tragedy should be the part where we mention god.

Beats the heck out of me! I didn’t say that we should mention God. I just felt that Hemant’s comment seemed a little patronizing. Using the word “should” in this case sounded somewhat judgmental to me.

My question was intended to examine the mindset that would criticize a person (in this case, the mother) if they wanted to thank God for something good that happened to them.

And I was not questioning your intention.

Maybe you “should” have.