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Do you think we are wishful thinking, in a God?

Sometimes in life Ill think, Im lucky to be alive. Theres times on the road a speeding car alnost creamed me, and just life in general I think, maybe someone is watching over me. But then I think of my aunt, who recently had a rare disorder that caused oxygen to be deprived, rashes. It would eat her own immune system they told her, and it did. One day, only having it a couple months, she said, I dont want to die. 😟 A month later, she passed from that horrible disease. Why wasnt anyone watching out? Was it truly just her time, at only 57??
And you hear of little kids...recently a boy kept a knife under his pillows because his mom was violent. Thinking ahead at a young age for protection. And then, his mother took the knife, and literally stabbed him in the back, and he died. An innocent little being. Was there someone watching over him????? 😢 While I do believe there must be some higher power and am astoundingly grateful for life, Its hard wondering theres a being watching us or that loves us etc, when you think of those examples.
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It seems like a lot of religious thinking is confirmation bias. If good things happen, we credit God. If bad things happen, we make sure that God doesn't get any blame. But then why do some people pray and get answers and others get ignored? Why do some people have an easy life and are infrequently tested? It all seems very arbitrary. There's always a way to justify it and say that the best possible outcome is the result every time. It's not much of an "answer", but that's how people bring order to chaos. Unfortunately that's what it seems like to me: people trying to claim that a chaotic world is actually ordered when it isn't really. You can make yourself see order, but it isn't really there.