I am at an accepting stage that not everything that happens in your life is in your control. When things goes really bad and you dont have much control on it, I would assume a person who believes in god or religious figures has their belief system as a coping mechanism. For example praying to the god and so on.
I passed that stage where you believe a single entity has a complete control of each and everything happens in this entire universe. So falling back to god and thinking it is all according to the plan and he will find out some solution is not really an option for me. At the sametime I also acknowlede that there are some gray areas where science can’t provide a logical explanation so as to why this is happening to some of the life events.
So to atheists of lemmy, how do you cope up with shits that happens in your life that you can’t explain logically and you really don’t have much control?
I don’t remember where I originally heard this from, but the Serenity Prayer has helped me get through some tough times
“Oh God, give us courage to change what must be altered, serenity to accept what can not be helped, and insight to know the one from the other”
I know it begins with “God”, but I found it applicable to my life without requesting anything from God.