"Christ will protect us"

[Stile]

Otherwise why comment?

Hey fuck-nuts, this is a debate forum. FSM forbid that someone will actually challenge anything you say.

[Dominus Atheos]

Christ will protect us

Darwinism in action.

Actually the way religious memes are constructed... it will go the exact opposite. If her house is spared, God Protected Her. If her house is destroyed, she isnt faithful enough and needs to pray harder. Works especially well for the impoverished who have little actual control over their lives. It gives them a sense of that control. This is kids is why christianity spreads like wildfire in developing cultures.

I'm not necessarily talking about the woman in the OP, I'm talking about whenever anyone says it. If they put their faith in God and don't do everything they possibly can to save themselves, and die because of it, it's Natural Selection.

[CaptJodan]

Anecdotal so take as such.

My grandparents truly believe that if you pray enough, yes nearly anything is possible. You're gay? Pray it away. Getting up there in age and can't drive that well anymore? As long as you pray to Jesus, God will protect you from any accident.

I can't say honestly about the person in the OP, but there are people out there who would believe that literally God will save them if they even make half-hearted preperations but don't bother to get out of the way if they're capable.

[The_Saint]

On an aside:

Something that I heard a few months back (via some local military personnel returning home) from soldiers posted to Training battalions of the new Iraq army was in training their troops to scatter whenever a compound came under mortar/rocket attack, all the international personnel would immediately head for trenches whereas the Iraqi troops would just wander about saying that if Allah wanted them to die then so be it. If they survived then Allah did not wish them to die that day and if they died then it didn't matter whether they were in the open or the bottom of a trench.

As for "God will protect us", "God will provide" etc .. I'm sure for a lot of people it's just an extra precaution on top of everything else... done everything humanly possible to stop the flood, can't hurt to try for a bit of "inhuman" help.

[TithonusSyndrome]

My grandmother and her husband, who with his stroke relies on her for his care, are going to have to be moved into a senior's complex in the next few months, courtesy of yours truly and the rest of my family because that's our idea of a fun way to spend our respective weekends, because my grandmother has gambled everything they had - the money from the sale of her last house, her pension, and the money she borrowed from my father and I, right down the drain. This wasn't a bad thing, though, because according to her, "Well, if you believe in a higher power, then everything happens for a reason, and..."

I never find out how the sentence ends, though, because she always ends up trailing off and staring elsewhere in a semi-catatonic state that speaks volumes about how reassuring her belief system is.

[Junghalli]

Actually this is a pretty good example of the appeal of religion. If there's a hurricane headed for your house and there's nothing you can do about it, wouldn't it make you feel better to think there's some kind of entity out there that can protect you from it and that you can appeal to? It makes you feel like you're doing something, instead of just sitting there waiting for a blind natural phenomenon that doesn't care who it kills to pass by and hoping you get lucky.