If I read correctly YOU were the CO-PILOT and it was partly your responsibility to be sure you knew where you were going, which runway, etc. etc.
Quiturbitchin!
In other words, he doesn’t know what happened. He doesn’t know who lived or died. He may not have any recollection of the moments leading up to the crash.
Let’s reserve judgement.
FWIW, the focus of my objection here was the guy immediately bringing god into it. As his mom said, sometimes an accident is just an accident. Sometimes there are mistakes. Like me opening this thread.
The focus of my objection is that what he said after a seriously traumatic event shouldn’t be held against him. I am a hard core atheist and I might even have said something silly like “thank God” after getting smashed up in a plane crash. He probably had at least a slight concussion or on pain meds or both.
Now this were two years later and he was on the motivational speaking circuit or said something like that after breaking his arm before a big football game I would agree with you. This is a different story.
hajario, despite our differences, I have to concede that you’re right. In this case. 
King of Soup, we need an applause smiley. God as the Intelligent Shitter…that thought is going to stay with me.
Thank you, ryobserver (read it 3 times as nyobserver, thinking to myself “At last! A positive review!” Oh, well, your name is cleverer), that’s very kind of you. By the way, does anybody know anything about this cease-and-desist order I just got served on behalf of lieu?
Anyhow, since I should justify my presence in this thread on other than self-amusement grounds, I’ll chime in to agree with…um, looks like pretty much everybody at this point: if a person in the extremes of physical and emotional pain and turmoil, which are being chemically blunted, resorts to a deeply inculcated personal worldview (that includes God) to make sense out of his predicament, and if it seems his perspective has shrunk to the point of near-solipsism, I think I can understand and forgive that, even if in calmer and soberer moments the person’s attitudes might make this attempt seem insincere.
I’ll also thank the always-forbearing Rilchiam for letting me be stupid in her thread.
People thank God for their good fortune all the time. Why shouldn’t they do the same for the bad?
Because it’s equally ridiculous to attribute good fortune to god?
He should of had God as His Copilot. Oh, and a obligatory one of these.
Well my answer to the OP is, and the question, ‘Why me ?’ is, ‘why the hell not you?’
It’s feeling a little like the complaints towards the statement on this thread are veering towards the territory of “How dare this guy say something about God being at all involved in anything that happened to him, even if he is religious? Can’t he see how ridiculous the concept is? Hmph, idiot.”
Ha, ha! It took me ages but I finally got it.
I wonder if anyone has ever done a study about the impact of a plastic Jesus glued to the aircraft dashboard on the crash rate. Are planes that ride with Jesus less likely to crash? Or more?
“I don’t care if it rains or freezes…”
Yeah that’s pretty much what we’re saying. Well ok, not exactly. Speaking for myself, I’m saying God (if there is one) very apparently doesn’t go around rewarding the good and punishing the bad…not in this world anyway. Time and tide come to all men.
It’s not anti-relgious, it’s anti a smiplistic view of theology.