Y'know, I'm glad she was able to stop a destructive habit.

[conuly]

Really. But... I don't know. It's always seemed a little arrogant, mihi, to attribute everything good to God. No, really. Instead of being humble (I couldn't've done it without His help!") it sounds more like "God took the time to help me. I'm very special because of this. If you aren't being helped by God, it's because there's something wrong with you".

And something else. If God is running around stopping people from smoking and tanning and eating too much, why isn't he also stopping them from being hateful, robbing the poor, and killing each other? Or aren't those important enough to merit God's personal interference?

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[kibbles.livejournal.com]

I thought it was a nice story, she didn't seem arrogant, to me.

And what makes you think God isn't behind at least some people trying to make a difference and stopping that? Even if God is involved, people like that believe that you have to listen. God may be talking, but a lot of people (including IMHO a lot of fundies) are sticking their fingers in their ears and going lalalalalala -- or even just cant hear him over the sounds of their own voices.

I guess I'm acting too Quakerly, now -- thinking the best way to listen for that voice is to sit in silence. ;)

[conuly]

That could well be true. My view on this doesn't have much to do about God but on the people who say "God helped me do this". So God really could be trying to help people with both great and little things. I don't know. But most of the people I've met who say that strike me the wrong way, so... here comes my opinion.

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

See, I say that. After all I went through this year there is no way in hell I could have done it without God.

I always think, why would God do all that to me, after I've changed, had faith in him, am a 'better' person -- why wouldn't he give me an easy path, and then I realize that without God, it would have literally killed me. I have fallen apart (to the point of attempting suicide and getting hospitalized) for lesser things. I would have been broken.

So I do think God helped me get through everything last year or so...

[conuly]

I will definitely say (as I commented above) that it's fair to say that God stopped you from committing suicide. I can see how this would be something God would be intimately concerned about. (And hugs and all for that as well. I don't want my friends killing themselves, especially not before I have a chance to meet them and become friends)

In general, I've found I don't like most of the people who say things like that, and I find most of them arrogant. I don't think everyone is going to fit into these neat little molds, though. If I did, I'd have to be fairly stupid to think that.