A Test of a Lack of Faith: A car accident.

Here is a thought experiment. Take an intersection, a pedestrian, and a car making a left turn. Now, the car hits the pedestrian. If the pedestrian is an atheist and comes out uninjured (except for a small scrape) the atheist will think "I lucked out by being uninjured". Meanwhile, if a Christian fundimentalist in the same case but with both legs broken would think :"Thank God I was not killed".

I actually was involved in a car accident as described above as the hapless pedestrian. I was hit by a car and once I landed beside the car, my first thought was "I lucked out" not "Thank God I lucked out". I had the light, but so did the left turner. The driver failed to divert the car AND SO DID ANY GOD.

To avoid the accident, all it would have taken was for the driver to move the car's "flight yoke" just 2 inches or so to divert it by a foot and a half. Or a god to move the yoke the two inches. You would think that an all-knowing and all-powerful god would be able to move a car's steering wheel 5 centimetres (two inches) to avoid an accident. If there is this god, I'd raqther worship a devil. This god would have to be up to no good. With a god like the one advertised, who needs a devil?

A Christian fundimentalist would likely say I underwent a miracle. I call it a low-probability event. But that doesn't answer why a god would not divert the car from the intended "flight plan". If there is a god trying to get my attention, it sure did not work. The event only made me MORE atheist! Any "good" god willing to allow a driver to 9/11 a pedestrian is not a good god. Period.