How can you believe in a God who permits suffering on this scale?

[Jayhawker Soule]

I'm not saying that any one 'deserves' to be raped.

There are women/children who are raped everyday, sometimes by their own family. We do not know why they had to go through that, perhaps they did something really bad in a past life.

Got it. Thanks.

 

[Green Gaia]

I'm not saying that any one 'deserves' to be raped. I'm saying that we do not know. I'm saying that it's not 'good' or 'bad' it just is. I know people, including myself who got over being raped. I feel sorry for the man who did that to me. Sorry that he felt so helpless that he had to lash out at another human. My body is just a collection of cells. And my body went through much more trauma giving birth two times than being raped by some pathetic soul. Should I hate my children for violating me?

It's not what happens to us that matters, but how we react.

The ability to forgive does not negate the evilness of an act.