Why Give God Credit for the Things We Do?

[Rhondazvous]

A christian friend of mine had to slam on the brakes when a truck pulled in front of his motorcycle. He thought it would be a great testimony to tell me how god saved his life. It might have been if his brakes didn't work but the bike stopped anyway.

I can't find it but I remember a post Cyberman put up about a gardener who fixed up his garden and a preacher wanted the gardener to give god glory but the gardener said you should have seen how this place looked when he was out here by himself.

But now see if I do something bad (god forbid) I'm supposed to take full responsibility. Why? If I can't blame god for the bad things I do, why should I give him credit for the good things I do?

When a child is rescued from a terrible accident, it's god is great.  When, 15,000 kids under 5 die every day of things like hunger/malnutrition, its god works in mysterious ways.  

Christians are at least consistent on this, they think everything comes from god but, you don't hear much praise with the 15,000 dead kids. If you hold their feet to the fire about the issue, its always god works in mysterious ways, but its all for the good somehow.

Weren't the might makes right/ends justifies the means ethic models discredited some time ago?

Regarding identity, I was once in a christian program that consisted of a lot of brainwashing and they taught, in essence, that as humans, we are inherently bad and not worth taking another breath. However, we can be saved from all of that by taking on the identity of jesus. It's psychological bondage.  I'm embarrassed to say that I believed this for a time.

God sounds like he belongs in a James Patterson novel.