Because, at least for Christians, nothing bad comes from god, just good things. (Shhh, don't read the passages that say otherwise)
So OBVIOUSLY it was totes their own fault or the devil and god saved them. 🙄
Retroactive attribution is a bitch to overcome.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_evil
In philosophy of religion, the problem of evil, also known as the problem of suffering, is the philosophical question of how to reconcile the existence of evil and suffering with the notion of an omnipotent, omnibenevolent, and omniscient God.
Philosophers have been considering this one for at least 2300 years.
I'll update this post when they come to a firm conclusion.
stockholm syndrome
I remember a local story a few years back about a woman who lost two children in a house fire. She thanked god for sparing the rest.
That's some abused spouse logic right there.
Because fairytales aren't real? I thought adults were supposed to know that...
David Sloss had a good routine about cancer patients thanking god rather than their doctor. I believe it was in the first of his two Netflix specials (also has one on HBO, if I recall). Be sure to watch his specials in order as he sometimes refers back to earlier bits and the punchlines could get spoiled going out of order.
Because "gOd WoRkS iN mYsTeRiOuS wAyS". They use that hand wave to justify it all.
Train crash kills 99 of 100 people
It's a miracle!
God fucks
You see, I had to save you by sacrificing Myself to Me, because the animal blood was not enough to satiate Me and Myself. If I hadn't of sacrificed Myself to Me, I would have had to kill you all for your filthy vileness that I made in My and Me's image by Myself and Me. I will return soon, and then I'll murder most of you with the demons that I made with Myself, and My Son and Me will rule the rest of you for a thousand years and then Me and Me and the Magic Bird and you will live forever and ever and I promise I won't kill you anymore or anything for real.
Because they won't say it but they like being dominated by sky daddy
Faith, AKA follow along our cult and shut the fuck up! He has a plan and his plan don't like you mutha fucka.
Religion and indoctrinates you to believe that everything bad that happens to you is your own fault, and everything good that happens is because of god.
Religious folks generally arent all that great at looking at their religion critcally.
"Also, all is according to my design, and you going to Hell for all eternity was always part of my ineffable plan."
"it's just a prank, bro!" - god probably
God didn't do that, you did! You're a fucking narcotics agent!
Oh they know who put them there and it wasn't god
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