Thank god! Those are words people hear and say so much they do not even think about them. Should we really be praising and thanking god though or do others deserve the praise?
From a young age, children are taught to pray and thank god for their food. Is there any evidence that a god prepared the food though? There are a lot of hard-working people from farmers, truckers and cooks that spend many hours of their time so that children and others can eat and be healthy. Many of them do not get the compensation for the labor they probably deserve either. Why not thank those hard-working people instead of this god that does not do anything as far as anyone can see and should not need praise from humans anyway?
Also, if people are to praise god for the food they have, should not they blame this god for not giving food to many in certain areas in the world? People who often share the same religion as those who this god does take time to feed?
People also pray to god for those who are sick and praise god when those people get better–even though there is no evidence anyone but doctors worked. If divine power is at work, why does humanity invest so much in doctors, medicine, painful surgeries and expensive technologies? If god gets the praise for when people get better, should not god get blamed when they die? That would save a lot of lawsuits against doctors!
When disaster strikes, people pray to god for the victims. Is there any hard evidence any god has ever saved any victim though? Has a god ever delivered food or pulled anyone from a building? It seems odd that a being with so much power can never seem to find a way to help people except through internal voices that could have come from the mind or with random events that save some while destroying others.
One has to wonder why a being with so much power can never be seen or heard directly. If this being can not speak to us out loud for some reason, why not at least leave direct and irrefutable evidence of its actions?
Those who win games and excel in other ways often thank god. However, they were the ones who practiced or strived in other ways to accomplish what they did. Why would a god pick favorites? For every person who wins, there is at least one who loses. How does this god pick winners and losers when both parties follow the same religion and pray?
People praise god for what they have and ask for divine help, however, they would not dream of giving up their farmers, doctors and others they rely on while asking for this help. Perhaps they should direct their praise elsewhere.
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