WHY DO BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE When I think of an example of why bad things happen to good people, the following passage from Christopher Hitchens takes the cake. He describes in vivid detail how a young girl was victim to true evil. I don’t know if that question can ever be answered. “Now, let's take a case of someone who's been "dealt a bad hand". What about Fräulein Fritzl, in Austria? Whose father, unwilling to get out of the way, kept her in a dungeon, where she didn't see daylight for 24 years. And came down most nights to rape and to sodomize her, often in front of the children who were the victims of the previous attacks and offenses. And it's only purely by accident that Herr Fritzl is now in custody. And it's
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Imagine how she must have pleaded. Imagine for how long. Imagine how she must have prayed, every day - how she must have beseeched heaven. Imagine. For 24 years. And no, no answer at all - nothing, NOTHING! Imagine how those children must've felt. Imagine what they felt when they saw one of their number, the dead twin, being borne away from neglect, on top of everything else. Now, [religious apologists] say; "That's all right, that she went through that, because she'll get a better deal in another life?" Are you- I have to ask you if you can be morally or ethically serious and postulate such a question!? "No, that had to happen! And heaven did watch it with indifference, because it knows that that score will later be settled. So it was well worth her going through it, she'll have a better time next time." I don't see how you can look anyone, ANYONE in the face - or live with yourself - and say anything so hideously, wickedly immoral as that. Or even imply it.” —Christopher Hitchens (RationalWiki.org) This is a horrible depiction of why bad things happen to good people and that is only one example. She screamed and pleaded and prayed to God to help her, to get her out of that situation, but it wasn’t until after 24 years
Imagine how she must have pleaded. Imagine for how long. Imagine how she must have prayed, every day - how she must have beseeched heaven. Imagine. For 24 years. And no, no answer at all - nothing, NOTHING! Imagine how those children must've felt. Imagine what they felt when they saw one of their number, the dead twin, being borne away from neglect, on top of everything else. Now, [religious apologists] say; "That's all right, that she went through that, because she'll get a better deal in another life?" Are you- I have to ask you if you can be morally or ethically serious and postulate such a question!? "No, that had to happen! And heaven did watch it with indifference, because it knows that that score will later be settled. So it was well worth her going through it, she'll have a better time next time." I don't see how you can look anyone, ANYONE in the face - or live with yourself - and say anything so hideously, wickedly immoral as that. Or even imply it.” —Christopher Hitchens (RationalWiki.org) This is a horrible depiction of why bad things happen to good people and that is only one example. She screamed and pleaded and prayed to God to help her, to get her out of that situation, but it wasn’t until after 24 years