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This post is not meant to offend anyone, but I'm letting you know upfront if you are a Christian it could potentially ruffle your feathers. But it's labeled vent, and I added a disclaimer so don't get too riled up if you don't like what I have to say...

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The other day one of my friends wrote that she knows God exists because she was having a crappy day but walked into the grocery store and got a super good deal on lobster. Another friend wrote something (on facebook) about how God was so good for making sure she got free frozen yogurt. And as a wedding photographer, I see it a lot in the wedding photography community here where I live where photographers post things on their blogs about how thankful they are that god has done such and such and blah blah for them (usually trivial stuff like the two people above). It's really starting to bug me, and I want to say something about it to them along the lines of "really? you look super insensitive saying god got you a sale on shellfish" but I know I will come off as an asshole.

I really don't get why people think that god is tending to their every little whim or to the outcome of Denver Broncos' games. I'm an atheist but I feel like those kind of attitudes should be offensive to actual Christians...like God doesn't have time to worry about your stupid football game. There are people dying of horrific diseases, people get raped all the time, children are starved and beaten to death. I just don't get it and it really bothers me!

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I don't know, some people see God's presence in the little things. it doesn't show up on my facebook though.

@redheadem:  My feed is saturated with it.

I had no idea He had anything to do with sales on seafood!  Good to know!  

@Moja Milosc:  This reasoning I can totally understand!

@BayStateBride: It probably bothers me even more that people don't blame God for negative things...so God gets the credit for delicious seafood but none of the blame when something crappy happens in their life? Idk...it just irks me. Then again maybe I'm just jealous I didn't get a good deal on lobster! lol.

@Atalanta:  Agreed.

@TheFutureMcBride:  Omg I would drop kick someone for saying that...how awful!

I think a lot of this has to do with where you live. I live in Boston and God isn't a very significant part of everyday life like I feel it is in the Midwest Bible Belt area.

I appreciate the idea of sprituality and I also admire people who appreciate the small victories in life (ie: a great deal on lobster, etc.) However, to say that this is God's doing undermines the whole nature of religion, sprituality, etc. by trivializing it.

I also tend to think that people who place too much of a emphasis on "God's doing" don't taken enough responsibility for themselves, and I think that's a bit dangerous. Sometimes bad things happen, sometimes good things happen, but ultimately, you have responsibility for your own life. It's irks me when people sit around and wait for God to show them the right direction in life, etc. My 2 cents, but then again, the Northeast isn't very religious as a whole.

Haha...no offense taken, the rant was pretty funny! Usually I find God in the bigger things in my life, in the way my failures and struggles become part of something better and more beautiful than I deserve. God only comes out to me in the little things when I'm super depressed or having a horrible day.

Me on terrible day: *weeps* Thank you Jesus, *sob*, for this, *sob*, bowl of ice cream my husband made for me...*wail*

Not so much in the price of shellfish. But, maybe I'm just ungrateful! :P

People seem to forget that there are more forces at work in the world than God. There's Satan, there's sin (or mistakes or selfishness [shellfishness?], whatever you want to call it), there are billions of people with flawed, imperfect hearts and wills of their own, most of us bent on the insignificant things in life. Food is freaking expensive. I want free stuff. Children starve and die by the thousands every day. I wish I would win the lottery because I'm a good person. Such is life.

@bells:  This post is a vent...I do hide these statuses but I'm allowed to be frustrated by them. Not saying people can't be grateful they got lobster on sale or found an extra dollar in their wallet (I would definitely be thankful and excited about either one) but to be like "God is sooooo good, I got lobster tails for 10 bucks". That is kind of overkill and seems sort of self absorbed to me to assume that you got a good sale because god decided to hook you up.

Obviously I'm not walking around physically upset about those statuses and they aren't hurting my quality of life I'm just annoyed by them and sometimes it's good to vent when things get on your nerves. I mean, it's better for me to vent here where no one knows me than tell the people in question I think they're being annoying and awfully full of themselves. I'm sure there are things people do that annoy you too.