Can you imagine how primitive the evening news seems to an atheist. Especially in such recent disaster areas as Texas and Oklahoma. The natural phenomena of tornadoes tears through a community and leaves it devastated: destroyed homes, unrecognizable communities, many hurt, some dead. While we atheists would be thinking, "shit that was some bad luck." The religious are either thanking God for sparing their lives after furiously wrecking their homes and leaving their cars in the middle of a river up a tree, or telling themselves despite their immense sorrow and heartbreak at having loved ones die being violently torn from their homes, they at least will see them in paradise. No one would think of cursing God for being such a destructive prick and causing so much havoc not to mention financial ruin. No, they assume he had a good reason to burden them with so much suffering. Nor would they dare ask for a miracle. So when there are nine missing victims in one community the pious residents don't demand, "God, where they hell are they?" No, they gather together and pray for Him to "guide the feet of the searchers". Sure, that beats asking for a quick solution to a problem that you know you're not going to get anyway. I can't see how religion today—in the 21st century—is any less absurd than it was in Roman times when the populace prayed to equally magical and mythic beings without a shred of evidence as to their existence. "Truly, my whole family was burned in the molten lava of Vesuvius. Thank you Zeus for sparing my life."
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