Another example

At last count, 40 people are dead, 50 billion dollars in "damages", countless lives altered, some forever. All due to one major storm.

Where was "God"? Oh, that's right. He's still there, just not responsible for the devastation. How do we know? Because , "Thanks to God, my family is safe."

It's the same old story, disaster after disaster, tragedy after tragedy. Blame the results on "mother nature", but give credit to some "father figure" for lives saved or some event averted.  Don't people understand the fallacy of this rationalization? Are believers really that blind? I hate to use  words like stupid or ignorant, because they all aren't. Perhaps they're just obstinate. They refuse to give up their faith, their god, their precious religion. Blind faith indeed.

This subject has been written about for ages. Will it ever sink in? I'm not holding my breath. In the meantime, I grit my teeth, scream at the telly,  shake my head in disbelief, every time I hear someone say "God was watching over me (us)."  Yeah, right, you nincumpoop.

I don't know about you, but I'm greatly offended by the insertion of "God Bless America" between innings of the baseball playoffs and World Series. Or is it "My Country tis of Thee"?  Whichever, I quickly flip channels.

For one thing, I wonder how Canadians feel? After all, Toronto (and formerly Montreal) is in Canada, not the U.S.

More importantly, how do we atheists feel? It just irks me to throw religion into a baseball game. It's almost as bad as combining religion with politics.

Them's me thoughts.

Restart

Okay, I'm going to start getting serious. I'm tired of my current blog site. Tired of the people (excepting a couple), tired of the inanity of their posts, tired of their criticisms. Bored. Besides, it's too small. Not worth my time and effort to post or read posts.

If I join here, a word of welcome would be nice. Perhaps some encouragement. I have a few things on my mind I'd like to share.

Thanks.
Randy