Unfortunately, victim-blaming is extremely common, and not just among religious people.
Even among nonreligious people, there seems to be a lot of hatred of homeless people, for example.
Within American culture, there has historically been a strong tendency to believe that anyone can accomplish almost anything they want if only they try hard enough. Therefore, it is commonly believed that if anything in your life isn't going right, it's because you didn't try hard enough.
Back in the 1970's, there was something called "Erhard Seminars Training," which had slogans like "You create your own reality" and "You, and only you, are responsible for everything that happened to you." A lot of other New Agey people embraced these ideas too, which are part of the tradition of the "New Thought" movement. In today's world, similar ideas are promoted in books like "The Law of Attraction."
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