(Religious) people are so lame.

Reminds me of the wisecrack by Hannibal Lecter in the movie The Silence Of The Lambs, where he mentions to Clairice Starling that God so loved his followers at a Texas church, that he sent a tornado there that wiped out the church and killed them all...

Only in "ultra-brain-washed-by-religion" societies.

I live in the south coming from NH and the religious are super devoted to gods will (whatever that is) and people who survive a disaster are blessed and hand picked by god to serve him in some fashion and that's what they say "god let me survive to 'do something' and they never do whatever that something is.

Here's an example of what religious people use when they survive and no one else does.
[bibleinoneyear.org]

People who give god credit for surviving a disaster are prime examples of "confirmation bias" in action.

It doesn't matter what the event, a believer will shape it to fit to be a confirmation of their preexisting beliefs.

My personal favorite is still the clip from several years ago, when Wolf Blitzer asked a tornado victim if she thanked god for her survival.
She told him that she didn't believe in god.
I wish more people would understand that no god is responsible for the weather.

Napoleon said it very well:

How can you have order in a state without religion? For, when one man is dying of hunger near another who is ill of surfeit [excess], he cannot resign himself to this difference unless there is an authority which declares, "God wills it thus." Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. - Napoleon Bonaparte, quoted from Anne Nicole Gaylor, "What's Wrong With the Ten Commandments?"

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. - Napoleon Bonaparte, quoted from Robert Byrne, 1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1988)

Who wins:
Nature 100.
God 0.

The concept of a god who cherry picks people to zap whenever he/it feels like it escapes the faithful, as does the concept of guns=dead children. It makes me want to be a total hermit in order to avoid people like that. They're everywhere. Watch your blood pressure!