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1000 flies eat shit. 1000 flies can't be wrong.
That's their mentality.
It's more than that. You know all those stories of things God did in the Old Testament? The plagues and the disasters and famines and droughts? To them, those aren't just stories, that's shit that actually happened. That's shit that they think should happen to people they think are evil. They believe that God has an active and vibrant presence on His Creation, and that He would never allow evil to prosper in it. To this date, no plagues of boils or locusts has descended upon them. None of their leaders have been smote by bolts of lightning from the sky. None of their megachurches have been razed to the ground by pillars of flame. None of their firstborns have mysteriously died in the night. In the lack of all this divine punishment, what other conclusion can they draw but "We must be doing something right!"? I mean how many times have we heard one of them say something like, "If what I'm doing is evil, then may God strike me dead!"? And then, the smiting doesn't happen. What else could they think?
A lot of those bad thing have happened to them, but they just handwave that away with "god works in mysterious ways!" or "it's a test!"
I have seen Chritians stay Christian through a child dying of cancer and use those exact lines. How you could think that an omniscient/all powerful being, that let's babies die from cancer, is good and benevolent is beyond me.
That's fair. I feel like at this point God himself could literally say "I'm making all that shit happen because you're being massive dicks! Cut it out!" And they'd flat out ignore it. If I were God, I'd straight up smite anyone who said "If what I'm doing is wrong, then may God smite me where I stand!" And my response would be, "Bet."