A recent FB post I saw was a one liner "Praise the Lord its raining". When I asked which god we should thanks for the misery in the form of flooded informal settlements and broken electricity lines, I was met with a diatribe  that effectively labelled me, as an atheist, incapable of discerning right from wrong, or good from evil. The people you describe are still relatively reasonable, but not too far removed from the paramedic who reportedly blamed the fires on  god's wrath at the same sex marriages hosted in Knysna. The mind boggles.