Thanking God

Does anybody else get really annoyed when people say "Thank God" when the situation is clearly one well within the grasp of human control? I'm not talking the situations where nothing within human control could have changed it, just the ones like having a safe flight, or a successful surgery. Am I just crazy?

Yes.. you're just crazy.

Only kidding.

If something bothers you, it bothers you. I don't think it matters if it makes sense that it bothers you or not.

I honestly think that some people say it out of habit. Like "lol" and "omg" etc. Like a sigh of relief. So.. it doesn't bother me, really. None of that stuff bothers me too much.

You could also go into the fact that Christians believe that without God, we wouldn't be, and therefore the situation wouldn't have been, and without the knowledge and life he has given us, the situation couldn't have possibly been cleared up because God was the one who provided the way.. however "easy" or "simple" it may seem.

That's my 2 cents anyway..

That particular expression doesn't annoy me. I generally reply : "Which one ?" just for the shock value.

Another common practice is to turn common, everyday expressions into something ludicrous. This gets one to realise that commonly accepted expressions (any of them for that matter) are a symptom of commonly accepted thinking -- our domestication, if one follows. It is quite effective for chipping away at hegemony if only just a little bit at a time ...

LOL! I've done the same thing before, too, haha.

Alexandre Orion wrote: That particular expression doesn't annoy me. I generally reply : "Which one ?" just for the shock value.

This is not the only annoying thing related to god, some of them keep saying "I'm sorry god"(there is a special word for it in my language) and or "if god want, I can do ..." most of times I say "if any" just after they use word "god"... This is not good at all to use god word in this way, whether if you believe in it or not.

It doesn't annoy me.... so long as its completely retrospective and personal, else it could ring alarm bells and make me alter my estimate of their decision making ability. Otherwise freedom of expression is important, and I encourage personal spirituality.

Friend: "Thank God"
Me: "Which one?"
Friend: "Which ever one gets me laid."
Me: "...wow"

- Conversation with a friend at work a while back.

I use it a lot as an exclamation. 'Good grief', 'Oi vey', 'well, shucks' - I use these and more at random intervals as well. From my perspective it holds no meaning what-so-ever, so why would someone saying it bother me?

Nah...

Why be annoyed over things of which I dont have control...

It used to, I'll admit.. lol...

Before I found [strike]God[/strike], er, Jediism... That is...:laugh:

Should people be offended that I say, "The Force be with You"?

Should we be offended if someone wishes us a Merry Christmas? Happy Easter?

In their belief structure, it is the best of wishes to you, so I should feel honored...

when the situation is clearly one well within the grasp of human control? I'm not talking the situations where nothing within human control could have changed it, just the ones like having a safe flight, or a successful surgery.

Well, there were no tornados, not lightening strikes, the pilot showed up sober, the landing gear went down...

His heart stayed strong, the doctor showed up sober, the infection cleared up...

Man's fault/responsibility...
God's fault/responsibility...

For a believer, its God's will that it happened...

For some of us, we see the will of man... (in the circumstances to which you refer)

I see some of you understand where I am coming from. My annoyance has very little(almost nothing) to do with their belief in any god. I am not bothered by things like "merry christmas" (don't get me started on christmas music though, I worked at a kohls in high school). I feel that expressions subtract from those individual acomplishments, and the respect they should garner.

It seems to make light of the work and effort put into learning and completing a task by the individual. At least to me it borders on disrespectful.