Excerpt #73 from my book, Religion, An Obstacle to Human Progress
Often, I hear people thank their god for someone being saved from a near-calamitous outcome.
Never do I hear people ask where their god was to prevent the circumstances of the calamity in the first place.
Or why the suffering or death of others is not similarly shielded.
If a plane crashes and 99 people die while 1 survives, it is called a miracle. Should the families of the 99 think so? – Judith Hayes, In God We Trust; But Which One?