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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I find “blessed” language annoying because a blessing is a gift from God. Do you really think God gave you a nice house and loving partner and good teeth, but decided NOT to give those nice things to the rest of us? No. You probably think some of it is dumb luck (the teeth) and the rest of it is a combination of your own hard work and smarts. But saying you are “blessed” seems to make people feel better about saying “I have nice things! I’m happy and grateful!” Like they aren’t bragging. But God doesn’t withhold nice houses from undeserving folk and give them to the deserving, so I don’t see your nice house as a blessing. I see it as a result of our socio-economic system that rewards some kinds of labor and doesn’t compensate others as well. I don’t think God is a capitalist.[/quote]

+1.  God didn’t bless you by sending you to a nice vacation in HAwaii.  It reminds me of many non-Christian religions that believed the wealth and health were a sign of God’s favor, so if you were poor or sick, it must be because the gods were mad at you.  It was a way of keeping the poor people down—you weren’t poor because the system was rigged, you were poor because you made the gods mad so you didn’t deserve to have nice things.  This is very much the opposite of Christianity.
I also feel like this is something that just came up in the past decade or so.  In the 80s and 90s people would say “I’m so lucky I get to go to HAwaii!”  Or just “I’m so happy I got to Hawaii!”  When did people start attributing this to divine intervention?  Really rubs me the wrong way.[/quote]

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