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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a Christian and it bothers me, too. Christians do recognize that "every good and perfect gift comes from God" (Epistle of James).  But Jesus also said that God sends the sun to shine and the rain to fall on both the righteous and the unrighteous.

Recently, I was visiting my sister and went to church with her. A friend of hers said something complimentary about my family, and I responded that I was "very lucky". She corrected me, saying that I was "blessed" to which I said nothing.

Christ himself uses the language of "chance" in the parable of the Good Samaritan: "Now by chance a priest was going down that road...", with "chance" having its ordinary meaning; that is, "for no reason apparent to us".

I agree that singling oneself out as extraordinarily blessed is usually the worst kind of humblebrag.[/quote]

As an atheist I appreciate it when a religious believer reflects on things like this. I do have a question though. You said that “every gift comes from god”. Do you actually believe he’s up there making things go one way or another?  By the way I do know people that think that and it’s extraordinarily insane to me[/quote]

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