Why is God only responsible for "good" actions?

[vbloke]

Don't look for any religious symbolism here - it was only a freak act of Mother Nature, says Sister Ilaria.
The nuns at Mother Cabrini Shrine in Golden were thanking God on Sunday that no one was hurt when a bolt of lightning shot out of the sky and struck their 33-foot statue of Jesus.
The lightning bolt broke off one of Jesus' arms and a hand and damaged one of his feet, sending marble plummeting to the ground during a Saturday afternoon storm.There's no talk of God being blamed for the lightning strike, only thanks to God that nobody was hurt.


After all, weren't these nuns guilty of violating:

"Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments." Exodus 20:4-6

[Cuddles]

It was a freak act of nature, but they thank god that no-one was hurt? Seems they're a little confused about whether god was involved.

[Araneus]

It's just the curious double standard that believers use: if a plane crash kills 300 people but a single child survives with "only" 3rd-degree burns, they thank God for the "miracle". Why God didn't bother to stop the plane crash in the first place never seems to occur to them.

Quite ridiculous.

[Jocky]

After all, weren't these nuns guilty of violating:


"Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them

And another curious double standard ...

Roman Catholics would say that they do not worship the graven images, so in fact the presence of all those statues is represents an observance of this commandment rather than a breach of it. Seems like equivocation to me, but there you go.

In reality, the graven images were a practical necessity back in the days when most worshippers were illiterate and needed clear symbols to elucidate the objects of belief. So now there's a tradition of using them, and this requires some nifty post hoc reasoning to justify it :-\

[Cuddles]

http://www.positiveatheism.org/crt/whichcom.pdf

Apparently Catholics don't have the commandment about graven images. They don't just use tricky reasoning to get around it, they simply rewrite God's word to suit themselves.