How is it that God gets credit for anything good that happens, but never gets any blame when something shitty happens?

I’m sure you’ve heard the story, it’s been all over the news.  If you haven’t, here’s a brief summary…

Mike Hermanstorfer was clutching his pregnant wife’s hand in a Colorado hospital on Christmas Eve when she stopped breathing, her life apparently slipping away. Then he cradled his newborn son’s limp body seconds after a medical team delivered the baby by Cesarean section.

Minutes later he saw his son show signs of life in his arms under the feverish attention of doctors, and soon he learned his wife had inexplicably started breathing again.

How were this woman and her newborn son saved?

Mike Hermanstorfer credits “the hand of God.”

“We are both believers … but this right here, even a nonbeliever – you explain to me how this happened. There is no other explanation,” he said.

No other explanation?  Did he not notice the “feverish attention of doctors?”  Think that might that have had something to do with it?

I try really hard to stay away from religion because I know some of my friends are religious, and I try not to piss on their beliefs.  But it always cracks me up when something bad happens, and religious people ascribe any good things that happen afterward to “the hand of God.”  In this case, I would just ask if God truly was involved in this whole thing, why did he allow them to die in the first place?  Was he distracted by having to bless sneezers?

With a quick search of the net I found a bunch of people that God apparently didn’t have the time or desire to help.  These things happened on Christmas Day as well, no miracles for any of these people.

  • Police are investigating the shooting deaths of two Moulton brothers who were found dead at a home in the 700 block of 5th Avenue earlier today.
  • Six people have been arrested after a teenager fell to his death from the third floor of a building on Christmas Day.
  • Fire investigators say five adults managed to escape the fire with injuries, but a 12 -year-old and his 10-year-old brother died.
  • Police officers do not suspect foul play in the death of a Hutchinson man whose body was found on Christmas.
  • A Brazilian national who journeyed to Lethem to party was found stabbed to death near the Takutu Bridge on Christmas morning.
  • The festive season will never be the same for the family and friends of a woman who died in a car crash on Christmas night.
  • The Kentucky State Police are investigating the shooting death of a 35-year-old from Russell Springs, KY.
  • A pastor fatally shot one of his eight children on Christmas Day during a dispute at the family home, where more than a dozen relatives had gathered to celebrate the holiday, police said.

Strangely, there were no quotes attributing “the hand of God” in any of these incidents.