If god wasn't fictional, those problems wouldn't exist.

I thank God for every good occurence and I understand that life on earth is a life of test. Wouldn't be a test if everything was rainbow and sunshine, right ? This is what we are teached in Islam and even tough things get hard and painful we have this believe that God never put us through anything we are not able to overcome because He knows us best :). So to me yes everything comes from God, and what we see as "bad" is a challenge and the goal is to come out of it as a better person ! I think a lot of religious persons think like me but the loudest ones are the one that either do not understand their own religion or know nothing and just like to call themselves christians, muslims, jews etc. Let's try to talk to them and if they don't want to improve then let's ignore them :D

I'm trying to break myself of the habit, as it seems silly for an atheist to say, but boy, that's a tough one to break.

I'm an atheist, but if others want to thank God, that's okay by me. I would draw the line at someone telling me that I must give credit to God for happy outcomes; they can draw the line at my telling that they shouldn't. Mutual respect.

I'm an atheist and don't give him credit for what I and others have done. Why thank him for something he didn't do?

Nothing wrong with it, but say a doctor saves your life, people would say “thank God”. I feel you should be thanking the doctor as well. Idk. Just my opinion

First you have to prove a god(s) even exist. Then you would have to prove god made the good thing happen. If you are going to thank god for good things, you need to hold him accountable for bad things like bone cancer in children, malaria, ebola virus, our main source of heat and light giving people skin cancer, worms that gestate and painfully come out of the human eye, etc. I dare you to go to a terminally ill children's ward, look them in the eye and tell them to thank god. If he created everything and has a divine plan, all blame would belong to him. Then you have to ask yourself is god good. God's actions in the Abrahamic books are highly evil. A god that created hell. A god that supposedly flooded the world killing all puppies, kittens, and babies via torturous drowning. A god that condones slavery. Why do people want to worship and thank an evil god?

God. God is what's wrong with thanking God. Most people grow out of believing in their imaginary friends. Not Americans.

Not atheist, but agree. How about saying "Thank God that guy drove drunk into my loved ones?" instead of "HWO COULD GOD LET IT HAPPEN!".... Uh, a drunk driver did. Free will. Y'know? *sigh*

God doesn't create things like COVID or disasters.God set up the earth for us to live in and overtime the earth naturally has disasters (proven by science) its not a concisous decision he makes its something that happens.

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First you have to prove a god(s) even exist. Then you would have to prove god made the good thing happen. If you are going to thank god for good things, you need to hold him accountable for bad things like bone cancer in children, malaria, ebola virus, our main source of heat and light giving people skin cancer, worms that gestate and painfully come out of the human eye, etc. I dare you to go to a terminally ill children's ward, look them in the eye and tell them to thank god. If he created everything and has a divine plan, all blame would belong to him. Then you have to ask yourself is god good. God's actions in the Abrahamic books are highly evil. A god that created hell. A god that supposedly flooded the world killing all puppies, kittens, and babies via torturous drowning. A god that condones slavery. Why do people want to worship and thank an evil god?

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First you have to prove a god(s) even exist. Then you would have to prove god made the good thing happen. If you are going to thank god for good things, you need to hold him accountable for bad things like bone cancer in children, malaria, ebola virus, our main source of heat and light giving people skin cancer, worms that gestate and painfully come out of the human eye, etc. I dare you to go to a terminally ill children's ward, look them in the eye and tell them to thank god. If he created everything and has a divine plan, all blame would belong to him.