Is that not the exact point that is being made - people are in fact making "major life decisions" based on their religion. Just because your chest pains have stopped for a while after you asked 'God', doesn't mean that a heart attach isn't in the wings and this may have been prevented by a hospital visit. From a personal point of view after sitting in a hospice for 2 weeks watching cancer kill my mother in the most cruel and undignified way, i was left with two points of view: 1. there is no god 2. there is a god which i never want to have anything to do with again.