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| Topic | With so much inequity in the world why do people attribute success to god? |
| Zeus 05/29/17 1:47:07 AM #29: | chaosbowser posted... Believing in god doesn't really validate thanking god unless you are just merely thanking him for existing in the first place. Attributing a matter of pure luck to god is to believe you are worth more to god than others are because you have this luck. People pray to god for something, then they get it. Given that they prayed beforehand, they think he played a hand in smoothing out the variables. And, if it doesn't happen, they generally write off the shortcoming on themselves or, if they refuse to accept fault, they blame god for everything that goes wrong in their lives and become an atheist professor who debates a student in some shitty movie Carl couldn't shut up about. jramirez23 posted... Some people might not agree with me but I feel it's a similar sort of reason as to why some well-off people like to think that if a person fails to overcome poverty, then that means they deserve their status because they lack responsibility. And, scientifically speaking, they wouldn't be entirely wrong since the idea of genetics encourages that idea. And if, as neuroscientists suggest, choice is an illusion because we're hardwired towards certain actions, people wind up exactly where they should be. --- (\/)(\/)|-| In Zeus We Trust: All Others Pay Cash ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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