many things depend on your willingness to see them. i have to keep this close to mind for my own beliefs, too...but many beliefs that are based on coincidence:
-deuteronmistic theology
-gospel of wealth evangelics, esp. the TV varieties and "seed faith offerings"
-new age religion such as that espoused in The Celestine Prophecy
All of them share a really basic problem. What happens when the world stops being so coincidental. It turns in to a lottery, and the losers will always outnumber the winners.
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