[BZ_Zorro]

It seems to me that many religious people see the world around them and the events in their own life, and draw conclusions/beliefs from it without looking for contradictory evidence. Example:

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Sure, God possessing infinite power could either send a angel to warn that believer in advance, or could simply snatch him miraculously out of harm's way. But He also could just as simply with infinite power just cause that believer's car to malfunction and cause him to miss that plane or miss being on a highway at the time of a catastrophe. That is in fact how I believe God operates the vast majority of the time. Or in the case where He might want you to meet someone, like your future wife or a friend who will benefit you, He just causes you to happen to meet that person.

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Every time God causes someone to 'miss that plane', a child starves in Africa for want of food or a 50c Vitamin injection. Every time God causes 'someone's car to malfuntion', an innocent child dies of AIDS after a miserable life. Or they get their limbs chopped off as has happened recently in the Congo. Or they get raped by some soldiers. Rather than help them get away, give them a feeling to go somewhere else, God in his infinite wisdom and power lets this happen. Maybe he's busy helping you with whatever desire you have? God will cause your car to malfunction, but he won't redirect the few HIV viruses that slipped through to the baby against the odds and made their short life horrible.

When the Tsunami happened and killed, injured and left homeless tens of thousands, instead of making the plate slip in a slightly different direction (and thus avoiding the tsunami), he was busy making your car malfunction so you'd take the bus instead and meet your future wife who would be 'good for you'.

Do you see the absurdity in your claims?

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I am also highly scientifically and rationally oriented

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No sir, you are not. From the content of your post it is obvious you fail to understand such basic fallacies as confirmation bias, selective memory, subjective validation, or the nature of coincidence. You don't look for contrary examples of what you claim to be true, as an objective person would. You know them to be true already in your heart. This is neither rational nor scientific.