Is This Too Deep? Not Deep Enough?

One of the questions that everyone seems to have, whether Christian, agnostic, atheist, or Jew: if God exists and we are His children, why does he let bad things happen to good people? And on the flip side, why does he let good things happen to bad people? Yes, you can argue that going through hard times are learning experiences and where you learn to define yourself, but that doesn't say anything as to why good things happen to bad people. Karma isn't judgmental about who it decides to work for or against, does it?

Believing in God could be seen as a way for us to validate our own existence. No one likes to think of humans as being related to monkeys or as a link in the evolutionary chain. We want our existence to have meaning rather than being an accident. If there is no god, it means me sitting at this computer is just a part of evolution and maybe in the next million years my descendents will be fly-eating trees.

If there is a god, it means our creation was with a purpose, it means we are more than a monkey's uncle. For all those who suffer and still try to do the "right" thing, belief in God gives their suffering a purpose, knowing that they will be rewarded in the life to come. But again, the question arises as to why these good people are made to suffer. What purpose is there in making the wicked powerful and successful? To read more questions this raises, see my 'Comfortably Numb', blog.