No Miracle for You
CNN has some quotes from the survivors of the Colombian flight that broke up on the runway and left 120 people with injuries and one dead.
Here’s one of them: “It’s a miracle from God. Thanks to God we are all alive.”
Okay, I guess it’s your right to feel the hand of God in a time like this, but one about the one person who DIED? I guess God just didn’t feel like “miracling” him, huh? He saved everybody else, but just couldn’t be arsed to throw one extra miracle out there, I suppose.
I hate the way the word “miracle” is thrown around. I mean, frankly, I don’t believe in them, but this has nothing to do with my personal atheism. It has to do with self-absorption. Whenever somebody claims a “miracle” in a situation like this, they’re really saying, “God saved ME. I’M SPECIAL. It’s a MIRACLE THAT I’M ALIVE.”
Anybody else who may have been killed, or had a loved one killed, or may have been crippled, in the same event? I guess they just weren’t worthy enough. Or maybe it’s all just part of GOD’S PLAN, right?
I guess it’s a tragedy when somebody else is killed in a hurricane, but it’s a MIRACLE when YOU survive a tornado.
Just another one of the many little reasons that religious faith makes absolutely no sense to me.
