Man Thanks Wrong Entity

In a CNN story on the comments from passengers who were on US Airways Flight 1549 yesterday (the one that landed in the Hudson River) a passenger named Andrew Jamison said:

"God was certainly looking out for all of us."

thereby thanking the wrong entity for his life.

God had nothing to do with it. If you think about it, Andrew should be asking God why He threw two birds into the engines to put them into the situation in which the real hero had to step forward and save everyone's life, including his own, namely the pilot, the wonderfully named:

Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger III

Hey Andrew Jamison, you should be thanking Sullenberger not God. It was Sullenberger who spent decades acquiring the skills he used to safely land that plane yesterday. You denigrate his effort and his hard-won expertise by thanking God.

So, please join me in thanking the pilot of Flight 1549: he was incredible and rightly deserves our praise. As do the rest of the crew on that flight... its not easy to get 155 people out of a plane when its sinking into a river: the professionalism of that crew was amazing!

Ken

P.S. Edward Current agrees with me.