Did you hear this one? The poor widow kept saying God would provide—even when she ran out of groceries. Her kind, atheist neighbor bought groceries and left them on her porch. Upon finding them she ran to the neighbor and exclaimed, “See! I told you God would provide!” He responded, “That wasn’t God. I BROUGHT YOU THOSE GROCERIES.” She replied, “Oh, it was God, all right; and he made the devil deliver them for me!”

Well done on all the love and care that you are showing yourself.

Religious control freaks are making the results about themselves and their beliefs, instead of the real people. It's a self centered way of saying it was their power that did magic. Pisses me off so much.

I was so incensed when a woman I know posted on FB her thanks to her god for doing her heart transplant . Not a word about the hospital, doctors, nurses or even the dead person or her family that donated the heart that is beating inside her.
I was disgusted and posted a thank you to those people.
Delusion is contagious. I always wonder how I can trust these people's judgment.

Again, keep up the great work.

Since there is no god, feel free to take ALL the credit for the results of YOUR hard work. Good job!!!

Oops! Almost forgot to answer your question. I will usually say, "Get the fuck outta here with that shit. Your god did nothing because your god isn't real!"

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If that happened to me I think I would like to have said, "Next time please tell your god not to make it so hard for me to do it."

If the big G gets all the credit he also gets all the blame too !!!

I struggle daily with biting my tongue with one of my closest friends and climbing partners who is a ridiculously religious Christian. Sometimes, I don't bite my tongue and it's awkward. I feel believing in a diety is not only ignorant but can be quite judgemental towards people who don't believe in the cloud people.

Nice job!

When I went to Med School the admin representative for the school walked up to me and said “god brought you to us.”

Now keep in mind this is a large university and medicine!
I was instantly furious, however I kept my composure and replied “lady Jesus didn’t take my tests to get here. I did.”

About 10 years ago, i had a stroke. It was ALL ME that worked so hard to recover. Not god. Its one of the things that bothers me about religion. Nobody should get any of the credit except me! Well, my family and friends were pretty great. But not god. Rant over!?

I used to get really upset. But eventually I didn't care if people want to thank god. What changed was I decided my deeds didn't need validation to matter to me. I also get a kick out of secretly being an evil athiest, unbeknownst to the unsuspecting Christian I've helped. I'd like to one time smile and nod when they thank God or prayers then say "Nope, I'm an athiest and just like to be nice."

Annoyed enough that if it's an effort that I've delivered on that I'll take all the credit. Should the religious person get mad, I'd mention that God inspired me to do so much on this effort, and not to take credit for myself would be to disservice it's divinity.

You mean like this?

I deal with religious church folk all the time, music gear to help them brainwash the congregation... I get all the, thank the lord and various comments... I recognize the delusion but it’s not my delusion, so whatever... when they say god bless you after selling them a bass guitar I respond with, have a nice day... I don’t need to pretend to be religious, they are being courteous in their own way and I’m being courteous in mine. Then I go home and do heathen stuff

I like to think they're just thanking me personally.

I've seen that kind of thing at the homeless shelter I volunteer at.
A church group will come and bring diner for every one, when asked the'll say, "we are doing gods work".
And all I can think to say (but I hold my tongue) is that, no, you do this because you are a good person, and like to help people. God's got nothing to do with it.

Congrats on your success! That's awesome. It's unfortunate how someone's words can frustrate us like that. I try to remember that they probably said it with good intentions and they were happy for the situation and in this case happy for you.

Today I mentioned my insomnia to a co worker, how I wake between 2-3 am. She informed me that across all the major religions the time between 2-3 is a "divine time" in which we are closer to God and that maybe someone is sending me messages.
Y'all. I actually managed to keep my mouth shut!!! If restraint were a super power I'd be Wonder Woman!

Congratulations on all your hard work losing the weight. I have a very poorly prepared student who is hoping that God is going to get her through the course. She got 5% on her last exam. He's not helping much. I find it sadly unrealistic. It probably gives people an excuse for not trying.

Where it really bothers me is when someone makes it out of a natural disaster. It's like they are saying that they were more deserving of God's help than all the people that died. It's a horrible position to be stating in public.

Happens in sports all the time. Even several comedians poke at not praying hard enough if they lose. I get annoyed at it as well, especially when you were the one who worked on it. Great job on losing weight by the way. Hope you're well on your way reaching your goals.

How can they take the credit away and try to give it to their imaginary friend? Same people probably thank god for that parking spot, or finding their keys when they were looking for them. It's endless how some people can relate superstitions into everything. If it's good, it's a blessing from god. if it's bad, your being tested or punished by god. People are just being taught that their not responsible for their actions. It's always someone else's fault! Drives me nuts!

I would tell them do not forget it was I who performed the task and not god thank you

I work in a hospital. This is a daily rage stroke for me.

Kudos for going to the gym! Feel free to drive northern Kentucky if you need a workout buddy.

Wow great work on your health. That isn't an easy thing to do.

It is very frustrating hearing that after all the effort, training, qualifications, experience one goes through to accomplish whatever it is that the religious person just belittled.

However, it is (partially) understandable when you realise that it is because of their ignorance and belief combined.

I'm ashamed to say that when I was young and brainwashed, I used to say that. It was the best way of saying "well done" without the evil ego getting in the way. Ego apparently always goes against god (think Babel). Apparently god smites those who are proud in their hearts. So, one should never say things that would infer that the human did it by themselves. That's the belief, sadly.

On that rationale God guides and motivates serial killers and paedophiles

Totally irritating ! I've seen all sorts of dedicated efforts by people, credited to the fantasy guy. WTF !?

Congratulations on you determination and achieving the great results - I know how much it takes.

The case you describe is so infuriating. Interestingly it means that the declared "free will" did not exist in your case - you were just being manipulated by God. So you as a person do not exist in their view. No respect for you. Very sad. Your feelings are justified.