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Originally Posted by boldruler

People should believe whatever they want. I have traveled abroad and seen terrible things and extreme poverty and it is hard for me to believe that if there was a just God that any american or person of wealth would find a place in heaven. There is slave labor throughout the world so americans can buy cheap goods, but nobody cares. The fact is that terrible things happen to good people and great things happen to terrible people. Sadly, life is 99% chance of where you are born and what talents/gifts you are born with. Just my opinion though.

Terrible things happen to good people, yes... but it doesn't always work out that way, ruler. Sometimes GREAT things happen to good people as well. Here is a quote that I always admired and believed in:

"It’s a wonder I haven’t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

It’s utterly impossible for me to build my life on a foundation of chaos, suffering and death. I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness, I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too, I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more." - Anne Frank