Originally Posted by Janszoon

On a little bit of a tangent, I was just at the grocery store a few minutes ago and there was a woman in front of me in line paying for her groceries with food stamps. She didn't have enough to pay for all of her food and had to put a lot back, but yet she was telling the cashier a story about how great god is because she won a bunch of money in Atlantic City playing blackjack recently and was able to buy a new TV. Aside from the obvious thoughts about why the hell this woman is gambling, taking trips and buying electronics when she can apparently barely afford to eat, this really got me thinking about how incredibly cheap and shallow the idea of god sounds the way many believers talk about it. We're talking about a being of infinite power and knowledge who built the entire universe and everything in it and yet people insist on thinking that things like winning at blackjack is an example of his power? All around the world there are cases of famine, war, disease, natural disasters, death and destruction and god is great for fixing a card game so some idiot can blow the money on a TV? How ridiculous and sad that someone would believe in such a piddling little deity.