I've heard a million times how their God decided it would make them stronger. Trials and tribulations are tests of faith and build strengths. Something about it's part of "the plan"...if they survive it's only because they never were in control? Having blind faith requires believing something that makes zero sense. Just like accepting Jesus so he doesn't punish you.

..came a little late to this discussion - all the correct answers have been used up

Because Christian logic is a unicorn.

Emotional pressure ... the threat of rejection or abandonment... fear of disapproval ... traumatic or painful circumstances or events... loneliness... these factors can make it very easy to rationalize or believe what one wishes. It's amazing how easily people can hold onto beliefs that are so blatantly illogical or absurd. Ideas that are hammered into us at a very early age can be very hard to unlearn, too.

Sometimes the human mind or heart is almost immune to logic or reason. I know that it is often terribly difficult for a depressed person to rise above feelings of self-hatred. That is illogical too, but in my own experience it can be virtually impossible to fight off. I believe that people are more creatures of emotion than of logic.

There like Republicans who get us into wars, ruin the economy and then make you pay for it. And people still vote for them just like they keep going to church to pray that it will get better.

Because they don't use logic.

In all things, thank the lord. 1 Thess 5:18 and Ephes 5:20.

To many of them, it's basic math. For example, a flood happens in Texas. A Christian that lives there might tell you "The Devil did it". Upon a massive fire in California, that same Christian may tell you, "It's the will of God".

I have the same thought after every tornado that hits the mid-west and the news shows people thanking their God for saving them while their house lies in ruins behind them.

No no...that is why they created Satin...how conVENIENT!!

I wash my hands of what Christians do and refuse to fret over it.

Centuries of human conditioning which is why we choose something and stay with even if it hurts us

Its all part of the brain washing process. Some people can't responsibly for there actions. So fools run there deity.

I call that a Gilligan. As in when Gilligan was always the hero at the end of the episode for getting the castaways out of a situation that Gilligan caused himself. I'm trying to get people to use that term...'pulling a Gilligan'. I guess god started it

Cognitive dissonance.

Stockholm Syndrome.