So there's a person I know from a camp I worked one summer in college and this person is quite possibly one of the most determined people I know. However, this person always credits everything they have or have accomplished to God's Grace. BULLCRAP
We all went to this person's parents house and it was on Smith Mountain Lake (Expensive place to live) and this person's parents were loaded. Like owned their own tennis court across the road from the house and had a private dock and boat. Again, this person is very hard working, but you can't tell me for an instance that a supernatural being had anything to do with what they have been able to accomplish.
By no means am I suggesting they've paid their way through life, but a lot of opportunities are opened up when you don't go through life with money problems or miss opening doors because your parents can't send you to the camp you wanted to go to.
It just pisses me off when people are that insulting. Own up to how you have actually accomplished these things, but don't give it up to "God." You can do anything in the world with determination and money. Literally nothing will stand in your way. But don't try and attribute it to an all powerful being that picks and chooses who can succeed by some random pattern.
So naive.
Well, that's my rant. Much more mild than I thought it would be considering this has annoyed me for years.
-
God opens the doors for us. He makes rain fall upon the godly and the ungodly, and Christians like to recognize this. I don't understand why you get so worked up over this OP. It's just a guy being thankful for what he has. It's certainly better than someone taking it all for granted. It really does amuse me how atheists get so upset over almost literally everything that Christians do.