Easy, Cato, whatcha got against poets? I fancy myself one.
I haven't seen theists make the claim that they're the only ones to suffer...but I do see a lot of the whole "divine intervention" claims popping up quite often during tragedies. We human beings have a strange tendency to want to give a reason where there is none beyond situational chance and self-preservation for surviving or enduring a calamity.
I mostly just hate when someone saves someone else's life and the individual saved says "s/he was sent by god" or something. Detract from the deed of the individual and give credit to some unproven entity! Yeah, that makes sense... No wonder altruism is dying out...
I haven't seen theists make the claim that they're the only ones to suffer...but I do see a lot of the whole "divine intervention" claims popping up quite often during tragedies. We human beings have a strange tendency to want to give a reason where there is none beyond situational chance and self-preservation for surviving or enduring a calamity.
I mostly just hate when someone saves someone else's life and the individual saved says "s/he was sent by god" or something. Detract from the deed of the individual and give credit to some unproven entity! Yeah, that makes sense... No wonder altruism is dying out...
