How does Oedipus contradict the Chorus’s assumptions about the relationship between humans and the gods?

The Chorus assumes that people are at the mercy of the Gods and that the Gods must be appeased. By killing his father and marrying his mother, Oedipus trying to go against the gods and fate. In Athenian culture, the incest which Oedipus has committed - as well as the murder of his father - would have been considered both crimes against the natural order and crimes against the gods.