A question to religious people about thanking God?

It's simply because religion is often anti-human.

In his comedy sketch 'Black People vrs ... er substandard black people - Chris Rock nails a profoundly anti social attitude - i.e. expecting to be thanked for doing what you are suppose to do. Expecting praise for doing your job.

Are you with me? I do you a favor - I deserve some thanks. I do my job - you don't have to thank me - you have to pay me.

Now thanks are fine, especially if you like the job I've done - but if I pay you to mop the floor & you mop the floor - thanks are simply not required, at least not on a day to day basis.

You don't need to thank Doctors & Nurses, you need to pay them.

Of course if the Doc is working gratis - you damn well better thank him.

Now it's certainly nice to celebrate Mothers day, and certainly nice to thank mom for a good meal. But let's be clear - it's a Mothers JOB to feed her children, just as it is a Fathers JOB to provide for them.

What's rude and somewhat pathetic is how many people are walking around expecting praise for simply doing what's expected of them. It's that lame left wing public school dumbed down esteem thing - where you expect a trophy for playing instead of winning.

Believers as a rule are not being rude. They neither expect praise for doing their jobs, nor do they feel compelled to give it. What they do feel is gratitude to the Logos. Religious people believe there is an intelligence behind Nature. That 'God' is on their side. This is a profoundly empowering belief. And that power is enhanced by the ritual of thanking God when things work out for you.

Christians believe "All things work together for good to those who love God and are called according to His purpose."

Mom is suppose to fix the meal. Dad is suppose to have a job. So if there is food on the table you thank God for blessing you.

Now I'm more of a Darwinist than a Deist. But I can tell you that the attitude of always looking for the opportunity to succeed, based on the absolute belief that it's been provided, is just a great way to go through life.

Whereas expecting to be thanked for simply doing your job is a recipe for being perpetually offended.

Neither is there a doctrine prohibiting people from thanking other people, nor is it rude. Were you in those rooms in private when doctors and nurses may very well have been thanked face to face? If not, how do you know those doctors and nurses went thankless by their patients?

Grace? Actually, grace is also supposed to thank the workers, and that includes farmers, butchers, and cooks; even dishwashers.

My opinion; if you don't thank God, why thank anyone else?

The God who created life is also the God who created those gifted in the ability to save lives.

Sometimes people thank God without thanking the people God uses. I don't approve of it, but it does work out in their favor. If you do good on earth and are not rewarded on earth, then God will reward you much more in heaven.

Jesus said "love one another " that is the commandment He gave --John 13:34....it includes thanking others for services rendered

If God really works, so we don't need hospital.The healing center can cure.

No, when people give thanks they are actually thankful for everything, thank God, but in the meantime also thanking the other people.