Why do bad things happen?

Why Do Bad Things Happen

Bad things happen to good people as well as bad . What is more , bad things may be caused by people when they hurt one another , steal pollute the environment , etc or they may be caused through other means , such as natural disasters . As a matter of fact , natural disasters are some of the worst things that can possibly happen to a huge number of people at the same time . Furthermore , natural disasters are known to kill even the innocent children . In the civilization of Noah , surely there

were children who were destroyed to boot . According to God , the children belonged to unfaithful parents , and God only knows whether the children , too , would have been evil when they grew up (Irving

In the history of continental United States , the largest known earthquakes have happened in the Mississippi Valley . Estimated over magnitude 8 , these earthquakes occurred in the years 1811 and 1812 . The 1812 New Madrid earthquake was so intense that it caused the Mississippi to begin flowing backward . The earthquake laid waste to whole cities from Chicago to New Orleans , and within minutes obliterated innumerable lives . Flood , fire , and chaos followed the earthquake , making the destruction caused by the seismic waves even more serious (Williams

The American heartland has drastically changed ever since the largest earthquake in the continental United States occurred . Missouri for example , is more populated than it was at the time of the largest earthquake . Human activities that may bring about an earthquake have also increased . Besides , the Mississippi is nowadays penned within a modern system of reservoirs , flood walls , in addition to levees . Few of these modern systems are earthquake proof , however (Williams . Hence the damage expected to occur with a new earthquake is unimaginable , and only God would know all the reasons for it

WHY DO BAD THINGS HAPPEN

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Man can pollute his environment and increase the likelihood of earthquakes , thereby causing bad things to happen to people Furthermore , man can cheat man by refusing to pay for the latter 's services . Men and women can hurt their spouses through extramarital affairs . And , children 's lives could be ruined with deadbeat dads Violence around the world is nothing unusual in our world either . The Nazis killed the Jews because they believed that the latter were inferior to them . Wars happen to destroy countless lives . And terrorists kill countless people around the globe

Paradise Now is a unique and powerful film about two handsome young Palestinian men who prepare for a suicide attack against the Israelis One of them backs out in the end . But the other succeeds in blowing up a bus filled with Israeli soldiers . Although the film covers only the length of a single day during which the young men prepare themselves for the suicide bombing , it provides a unique perspective into the Israel-Palestine conflict . Both parties seem to be fighting for the sake of God . Their respective religions - both springing from the faith of Abraham - have...