How can people actually *believe* stuff like this....

[Ghost in the Machine]

much less say out loud to be printed in a paper, without fear of being locked up in a rubber room?

"The 36-year-old letter carrier and mother of four was one of three Van Buren County residents killed in a monster storm that ground a path across the Southeast, claiming more than 50 lives in several states. Her husband Raymond, 38, and their 14-year-old daughter, Ellise, were also seriously injured.

Standing Wednesday amid the debris field of twisted metal and pink insulation, Carmon Lagunes struggled to grasp why God would take her sister.

"That's his wrath," she said, looking toward the wreckage. "For some reason, he's not happy right now and this is. ... Nobody understands God's will. I sure as hell don't understand it.

Said Anita Goodnight, the sisters' aunt: "God didn't do it. Satan did."
http://www.att.net/s/editorial.dll?bfromind=7814&eeid=5680132&_sitecat=1522&dcatid=0&eetype=article&render=y&ac=1&ck=&ch=ne
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I seriously just don't understand this need to have some supernatural diety or deities to blame for all your failures, or praise for your accomplishments.

Yes, I know all about free speech & tolerance, but come on, man... if someone says they were abducted by aliens, they want to lock you up in a nuthouse for a few days and observe you, but people are free to spout off these wild fairytales about some magical, supernatural cloud dweller that made everything in the world in 6 days and knows exactly what everyone, everywhere, is thinking and/or doing every second of every day of their lives and they're actually LOOKED UP TO as if they are somehow superior and worthy of respect and praise.

Am I wrong for feeling this way? What's wrong with me?