Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

was a story about a missionary who died when her plane was shot down over Columbia in the late 90s.

Soon thereafter, on Good Morning America (the prime venue for respectful mourning) her family actually said "God kept her safe until it was time to call her home."

Now, I'm not the kind of atheist who'd go out of his way to piss on someone's grief, but this kind of rationalization make me lose my mind. Who could possibly accept it as a sensible explanation of the universe? How is it different from God doing nothing at all?


I often wonder if I'm wired differently, because that kind of thinking is simply abhorrent to me.