The stupidest thing you ever heard a Christian say

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I’m not abandoning or jumping ship here, but I heard this one recently and often.

I love all folks okay and this is not an insult.

BUT everytime someone says “God saved my loved one” and act like it was because of their prayers or that they deserved it.

THIS implies that others who died, perhaps in he same mishap DID deserve to die and that their prayers were ignored or worse yet. They were answered…but NO was the response.

Having held my little brother watching him die in my arms when I was just 13…(He was hit by a drunk driver when he was 10 yrs. old) needless to say, it shook me pretty bad. My faith was utterly destroyed after getting NO for an answer to my prayers.

Well it was just his time, they would say. If I have to hear that stupid ass remark one more time. But HE saved your son and not my brother because he/you were more deserving. Goddamn you to hell…anyway, that’s ancient history and how I started the path to where I am now, religiously speaking.

But that remark still gets to me. :frowning:

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Stupidest thing I’ve heard a Christian football player say:

“Thank you, Jesus, for giving me that touchdown.”

What you’re really saying when you say this is “Thank you, Jesus, for making the defensive players screw up!”

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Even if we could show that Christians were more stupid and guiliable than the general population mean, we’d be facing a fallacy in concluding anything causal from that.

I don’t know if it’s a formal fallacy, but it’s just plain false to judge instance from average. We use averages to predictively generalize only when we don’t know the specific case, and even then averages aren’t causality. But once we do know the specific case, the average becomes irrelevant as a predicitive factor, even if there is a causal connection.