Asklemmy

they can wishfully think themselves into anything as long as it makes them better than other people and they can play victim

I'm not in any way religious, and it does irritate me when people say, of some senseless tragedy, "everything has a purpose."

But I do see, in your specific example, that what they say has metaphorical value. You should be grateful that you had it in you to accomplish what you did, even if you don't attribute it to some mythical being.

I often think the phase "there but for the grace of God, go I" because I don't know a secular equivalent. Think of God as a metaphor for the universe.

For me, it depends on the authenticity.

There's too many people that talk God this and God that, because they've been told that's what they are supposed to do as a God person.

But then their actual actions are not what a god person is supposed to be.

I'll take a 10% Christian that walks the walk 10% of the time over a 100% Christian that walks the walk 10% of the time any day of the week.

Well it is nice to realise that despite putting in the work, it is a huge privilege to have the freedom to be born in a time and place where you actually get the chance to realise your potential - instead of having suffered abuse at home, being sent to a farm or factory at 8 years old or simply dieing from diarrhoea. So yeah, sucks if people want to be thankful to god for that, but being thankful for what good exists in the world is a positive thing.

Yes

Veeery.

I straight up hate religious people and avoid them at all costs. I’m annoyed by everything they do.

Yes.

My take is that it is all subjective, I feel like I busted ass, I feel like a god interviewed, I feel like it was my lucky socks. Without a study and metrics we can't objectively measure reliably, but that would be overkill for every little thing. So we take our subjective shortcuts and move on. My advice would be focus on the sentiment, "that's impressive, it's good that hard work/gods intervention/lucky socks helped that outcome, because it seems so surreal otherwise.". That or have the heart to heart and put in the effort to align if it's important and they are important to you.

probably not half as irritated as god would be

I'm annoyed by anyone with a personality that consists of exactly one thing and one thing only, even more so when the one thing they picked for their personality is a tradition of extravagant bullshit that has been ruining lives for millenia

Oh man, let me introduce you to Christopher Hitchens. Unfortunately dead now, he was an intellectual powerhouse who could cut down any argument for religion like a hot knife through butter. Start by searching Instagram for him. He's also funny as shit. Incorporate some of his arguments against god in your conversations with people who insist that god has anything at all to do with your accomplishments and you should shut them up pretty quickly.

I mean, they kinda have to because Jesus is the reason for the season.

I do the same just with Karl Marx and I don't see the problem