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Why is it when something bad happens even people who claim not to believe in God always say "Thank God"....?

I have debated the existence of God with alot of folks until I am blue in the face. But why is it when something terrible happens and they come out in good shape they always use the pharse "Thank God"?

(thank god I didn't get hurt worse, thank god it didn't happen to me, etc.)

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  • Anonymous
    2 decades ago
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    because they all know deep down inside that God does exist.

    PERIOD

  • 5 years ago

    For a start up i think of you have been around too many Charismaniacs. God does no longer preclude reason and result / reaping and sowing. might you like it if each time you probably did some thing incorrect an excellent finger comes out of the clouds and wacked you excessive? i do no longer think of so. Supernatural issues could be happening left, top and centre and you may continuously be thinking, why did that ensue. What stopped that female from crossing the line, the line regarded sparkling. and so on and so on. very at as quickly as you may tell God to bypass away you by myself and enable you to stay your life the way you go with for to, and could say "i'm the grasp of my own universe." nicely your want is partly granted. A planet the place the god of this worldwide is devil."In whom the god of this worldwide hath blinded the minds of them that have faith no longer, lest the sunshine of the wonderful gospel of Christ, who's clone of God, might desire to polish unto them." 2 Corinthians :4:4 A life with acceptable justice and peace in the worldwide, will basically ensue throughout the time of the Millennium. 1000 years with Jesus ruling over the planet, yet close to to the top maximum will rebellion and make conflict against God. Revelation 20. Left to their own contraptions human beings tend to at last kill one yet another for what ever reason. Land, politics, faith, potential or money.You call it. Jeremiah 17:9 the middle is deceitful particularly issues, and desperately depraved: who can comprehend it?

  • 2 decades ago

    I don't say that, but it's just a figure of speech anyway. It doesn't mean anything. When people say "For Pete's sake" they aren't talking to someone named Pete, or referring to any real person called Pete. We pick up habitual phrases from the people around us. It doesn't mean anything.

  • 2 decades ago

    "God" is a generic term and does not mean Jesus or the god of the bible, nor does it imply a supernatural deity exists.

    For most people, "God" is money or material possessions.

    Why do you think the US adopted "In God We Trust" as the official motto in 1954 and placed it on currency?

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  • Anonymous
    2 decades ago

    I think most people are humbled by cataclysmic events. It reminds us of how tenuous our own existence really is. We want to know why we were spared and others were not.

  • 2 decades ago

    Unfortunately that is the only time they appreciate God, then they go back to their dependent ways, until they again narrowly escape death, or injury....KECK

  • Anonymous
    2 decades ago

    common fraze

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