That's still an example of a feel-good story being sold: your family didn't die in a car crash because of bad luck, it was because you didn't pay the astrologer

That's still an example of a feel-good story being sold: your family didn't die in a car crash because of bad luck, it was because you didn't pay the astrologer/priest/whatever to appease the gods. For many people, the idea of that they can't control what happens at all is way worse than the idea that something is in control of the universe but they simply have not yet found the way to influence that something.