Thank you Lord for Your provision
We are self employed (DH& I work together) & the diary is now empty right through December. DH went to buy fuel in his truck today & also picked up a couple of packets of our favouite sweets at the till. He paid, telling the till girl which pump he'd fulled up on. When she handed him his receipt & he checked it, she hadn't charged for the fuel. He pointed this out to her & she checked & confirmed the amount of fuel he'd had. She looked at his receipt, checked her till, looked at CCTV & said she could see he'd put the fuel in, but her till showed it had been paid! She asked the other tills to check, they all confirmed no outstanding amounts of fuel. Off you go, she said, someone has paid! Well praise the Lord!! What a blessing!
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Serendipity.
There's been a word for it, among others for a long time that doesn't invoke a God.
But These folk, it'll always be their God, from one extra strawberry to a benign tumor, God get credit for anything remotely good.
But it's also incredibly arrogant. People starving, CHRISTIANS STARVING and God give them free gas.
Eh...someone did them a good deed. They should thank not only their god, but also send good wishes to the kindly anon who may have paid the tab.
If god has a hand in this world, it is a human hand connected to whomever has enough Inner Light to choose to be a decent human being.
Best explanation? Designated Hitter paid for gas with a credit card at the pump, and forgot he had done that. Second best? Some nice person (religion unknown) paid for Dirty Hands because he looked poor.
Worst explanation? Some imaginary sky-friend conspired to cheat the gas station.
Why praise your lord?
I think it would be much more impressive if you thanked the flesh and blood person who paid your bill!
Or perhaps it was just a computer error in your favor!!
Why introduce imaginary supernatural beings when they aren't needed?
Last time I bought a soda from a convenience store, the total was $1.29 but I only had a dollar bill and a quarter. Lo and behold, there was a tray of pennies in front of the till and I was able to make up the last four cents! Praise Jesus, it's a Christmas miracle!
Fuck, everything's a miracle to these god botherers.
@Psycho Tits
I've found that this is usually the case, yes.
In fact, I have a theory that the reason Christianity is dying out is because God (if he is real) has to rely more on atheists to do good works, because more and more Christians are either just gonna pray and hand the task to someone else, or actively fight to stop his good works because they could lose a few bucks.
And later that night, someone's register came up short.
I wonder how many people died of malnutrition that day?
@ Some Christian Anon:
I think Churchianity is doing well.
Christianity...not so much. Try not to take it too hard, though. The Bible said evil had enough power to fool even the Elect. If there really is a separate, living evil in the world, its greatest trick has nothing to do with convincing people the Satan is not real. No - its best trick was to curse all of humanity with a psychological switch that allows for diffusion of personal responsibility:
'I heard someone screaming, but I just got to bed after a 14-hour shift. Surely someone else will call.'
'I see a woman literally whipping her kid in the parking lot...but I have no business in a family affair. Besides, maybe the kid deserves it.'
'I can smell burning flesh for kilometers around Birkenau. Wow, but sausage factories stink.'
'I hear domestic violence upstairs. I don't want to put myself in harm's way by making a statement to the police. And besides, some nearer neighbour would surely call.'
@Some Christian Anon: Sounds like sort of the situation in Small Gods , where people gradually take to worshiping what the church says the god is instead of what he really is, until it comes to a point where only one person really sincerely believes in him. At least Om had an excuse for not being able to solve the problem with lightning (as is his wont) because having fewer worshipers makes him less powerful. I don't recall that being part of Christian doctrine last I checked, though.
I hate to guess what these dumbasses do for a living, but I'm sure it involves misplaced superiority, hypocrisy & bible thumping. Oh, & stupidity, the most necessary ingredient. Can't have a christian without them.
Yahweh blessed you by stealing from their business and giving the stolen goods to you? Yeah, that sounds like him. He always was a fan of "blessing" his followers with other people's shit. Possessions. Cities. Daughters. At least he didn't make you kill the till girl to get it. That's a nice change of pace for him.
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