I like this Q & A. The question was: Why does God get all the credit when something good happens, like finding your lost shoe, but if nothing happens or something bad, than "he works in mysterious ways"?
This is an excellent question. As an athiest I see the person making the effort, or someone else making the effort on behalf of the person leading to the success, or the random happenstance of coming across said shoe.
Truth is, religious people lately blame the good things on their god, and say that “he works in mysterious ways” when he does nothing, or allows negative things to happen.
This sort of “game” is better described as there being no god at all, which accounts for good, bad and indifferent things happening with or in spite of the efforts towards or away from a desired goal.
There is a reason “god helps those who help themselves” because there is no god, but if you help yourself, then you have been helped. If you do nothing, more like than not there is no help, or it comes from an outside source (not god) ie someone else helping you.
Only a non existent god fits all the details of what happens in the world, everything that claims contrary is fantastic story from the imaginations of people near or far in time.