I think some people use their belief that god is always in control to absolve themselves of any responsibility for their troubles. A friend of my wife is always pining on facebook about how the problems she's having must just be god's will, but the issues she has are always of her own making.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
