Question for Theists: The Proble with Thanking God

[drfuzzy]

lkingpinl - - that's wonderful.  My family and I will be doing something very similar.  We need more folks to follow your example.  You know, it just struck me - - the theists that I respect in real life . . . I respect them because they behave like that.  They don't preach.  They don't judge.  They just ARE Christians who spend their time reaching out and helping others.     (I'm blue today.  Not because I'm sad.  Because I want our baseball team to win their playoff game tomorrow!)      

Thanks Fuzzy, but I feel it's the only way to be.  That's why I've said it many times, my favorite quote is "preach the gospel at all times and when necessary use words."  Far too many Christians are judgmental and have superiority complexes.  We are all the same, and I feel we have an obligation to help those where and whenever we can and be humble.  My kids learned far more about being thankful by being subjected to depravity and doing something to address it.  We do the same at Christmas.  Kids get a small thing, but we spend a lot of time volunteering and doing toys for tots stuff.  It's far more rewarding.

Saw this on FB.  I loved it.  I'm still an atheist . . . but it's still pretty much exactly what I see and what I was trying to say.