Thanking God?

I just read a random post on Facebook that said if someone I knew was dead that was younger than me, that I should take a few seconds to Thank God for Saving me!

I thought about this and replied:

“This is really upsetting, I have lost people recently and to think someone could be so crass as too say they weren’t worthy in some way? Also what about all the innocent  people that die in wars, hurricanes, floods and other natural disasters? Was that because they didn’t pray enough? I’m proudly agnostic, I don’t pretend to know the “truth”.”

The point is that whoever wrote it does not know the people I’ve lost, cannot say if they were good or bad. Their deaths were random. A big finger didn’t come out of the sky and strike them dead.

When someone you know dies, it’s a body blow, it’s overwhelming. It’s not a competition to see which one of you is a “winner” in some deities eyes. And if I could bring them back for one second I would. Maybe I’d be more inclined to pray, but I can’t, so I won’t. We don’t live in a fairytale.

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5 thoughts on “Thanking God?”

  1. That’s one of the stupidest things I’ve ever read, “I just read a random post on Facebook that said if someone I knew was dead that was younger than me, that I should take a few seconds to Thank God for Saving me!” As for death? It’s not good or bad. It’s just there. I’d love to go to Montana tomorrow and spend a week with my aunts and uncles, but I can’t. That’s one reason I didn’t move there when I retired. Death is just itself. People can be so incredibly dumb. As for the dead person? He/she isn’t missing anything. We are missing them. Today my brother would have been 71 and yeah, he was younger than me. Wow. Big victory. Grrrrrrrrrrrr….

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      1. Don’t worry about it. When November 2 rolls around that nerve sticks out and yells, “Hit me!!!” The non-nerve Martha understands that the REAL story was having had a brother to love. ❤️

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