Can miracles happen without God?

Have had a lot of patients who had hyper-religiosity - indoctrinated as small children. Pray all the time - pray for the baby to not die - but it does. God killed that baby.

Pray for the car not to die - but they get in a horrid crash and are injured. God did that, too. Good stuff happens to them when they don't pray, sometimes when they do, and bad stuff whether or not they do.

'Course, they've been trained, and trained well: god is NEVER blamed for the bad stuff, but gets all the credit for anything good. Otherwise, they get cognitive dissonance and start thinking about their religious beliefs - and that is not a good thing. People evolved to be driven to finding patterns so they could attribute cause and effect - but most the time, there IS no cause and effect.

It was a survival mechanism: if you saw lightening and then saw the fire it caused, you'd remember the next time when you thought you saw a similar type storm that could come with lightening - and avoided being out in it. You saw the patterns of animal prints and remembered them. But you also couldn't explain things - no science - so the unknown things were all "god did that".

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.