[Capitalist Eric]

With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible...

Uh-hmm....

The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... Or change. Once such incantatory phrases as "we see now through a lookng glass darkly" and "mysterious are the ways in which He chooses His wonders to perform" are mastered, logic can be happily tossed out the window. Religious mania is one of the few infallible ways of responding to the world's vagaries, because it totally eliminates pure accident. To the true religious fanatic, it's all on purpose.
---Stephen King

Cernunnos, it's significant, if your mode of dress includes "tin foil hat."

Heh heh heh...

[It'salmosttolate]

Render to Stephen King those things that are Stephen Kings'

Render to God those things that are Gods'

[Aquinasfan]

Religious mania is one of the few infallible ways of responding to the world's vagaries, because it totally eliminates pure accident.

Uh, OK. Let's say the world is completely material. Just matter in motion, right? Nothing else. I mean, really, nothing else.

Then there can there be no pure accident because everything is determined.

In the real world where God exists, absolute accidents cannot exist. However, "relative" accidents, or events that appear accidental to people, can exist.