Here's another example of silly religion and selective belief. You will hear this kind of selective belief daily on television and in newspapers. It is extremely common...

From the Associated Press:

Residents return after tornadoes smash houses in Virginia

SUFFOLK, Va. (AP) - Weary residents and business owners returned to what was left of their homes and livelihoods Tuesday after three tornadoes smashed houses, piled cars on each other and injured more than 200 people.

One twister in this city outside Norfolk cut a zigzagging path 25 miles long through residential areas, obliterating some homes in sprays of splintered lumber while leaving others just a few feet away untouched.

Search teams with dogs found no sign of deaths or any additional injured victims, Suffolk City Fire Chief Mark Outlaw said.

"The only thing I can say is we were watched over and blessed," Outlaw said.

Most home and business owners were blocked from damaged areas until officials could assess the damage. It wasn't clear when they could return.

Brenda Williams, 43, returned Tuesday to the shopping center where she was buried beneath a collapsed ceiling in a manicure shop during the storm. She was pulled to safety by a stranger, she said.

"I'm not lucky, I'm blessed," said Williams, who had a 2-inch gash stitched above her left eyebrow and stitches on her right forearm. "I'm fine. I'm here. I'm in the land of the living."

Blessed, you say. God blessed you by hurling tornadoes at your home? Hurray for you! You are truly blessed.

"God blessed me with this yummy Starbucks coffee"

I find it immensely interesting that people always praise the invisible sky pixie for their survival during horrible events. Yet they fail to acknowledge the idea that the sky pixie caused (or could have prevented) the horrible event from happening in the first place.

They don't realize that their own selective judgement of the powers of their chosen god illuminates the absurdity of the whole idea.