GMG: Escaped Plane Crash Victims

This is a "Grinds my Gears" style post. So here's what grinds my gears.

First off, I don't like it when planes crash. That's a big bummer. Second, I don't like it when there are fatalities, especially if all the passengers fall under the aforementioned condition. The whole thing is sad, and awful. But what grinds my gears is when that one guy is flying home to his family, and he misses the flight, and does an interview with some bullshit news station.

The guy tells the story of why he's late, and then mentions that he "had a funny feeling". And then it always cuts to the wife and she talks about her "funny feeling" and how she felt when she heard that the plane crashed. (Whether she knew her husband was on the flight or not.) Then, invariably, we go back to the husband and he says that he thinks that God was watching out for him.

That's the part that really steams me. What exactly does that mean? Does this imply that God was not watching out for the other passengers? That's an odd statement to make, considering God is supposedly omnipotent, omnipresent, and omnibenevolent. If you go with the "It was God's plan" defense, then why would you say that he was watching out for you? Wouldn't that mean that you're just part of the plan? Maybe he's got you scheduled for a train wreck next week, does this still mean that he was 'watching out for you'? This is akin to claiming that Jesus helped you win a Grammy, or score a touchdown. Does Satan help every time you do not score a touchdown? Every time a QB is sacked behind the line of scrimmage, the devil was at work?

So religious folks, if you make your god a petty squabbling and predictable being (Zeus) then go ahead and by all means attribute your daily events to this god or that god. But if you follow the Abrahamic god, then stop saying he saved your cat, or kept you off the plane or helped your record go platinum. You don't know what He's up to, you never have and you never will, so stop going around and saying ignorant things like "I think God was watching over me today". The statement renders itself nonsensical by its very nature. Making you sound like a moron by your very nature. So take some advice from one of my people: "Be silent, or say something better than silence" -Pythagoras