> For religious people there is always the single factor

> No one is stating this literally

> You are getting caught up in phrasing

This is a text message board, how else am I supposed to take something other than the way someone chose to state things in text? Should I take their body language into account? The phrasing is truly all I have to go by.

> Change 1-2 words and you'll see what people really believe

Maybe you should have actually gone with those other sets of words then, assuming you're really the same person I was replying to? I'm replying to a specific comment, not some imagined idea of a comment with a radically different meaning.

And fwiw, I've definitely been around a lot of people who essentially use "God did this" to downplay thanking people for their hard work and efforts in the positive outcomes in life. I can totally get and agree with how annoying and shitty this kind of mentality can be. If someone has truly only known that kind of religious person, I can get how it would be easy to assume all religious people are that same kind of shitty. But they're definitely not all like that.

Its like I'm replying to "all birds are blue" and saying "nah there's a red bird over there, and they actually come in a lot of colors" and then you come in and say "nobody is saying all birds are blue..."

You might take this to reflect how not all religious people are the same, and can't easily be grouped into a single category.

Best of luck.