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To those who believe in God -- when your prayers are not answered, or when something unexpected and negative happens, who do you blame? God? the devil?[/quote]

It's not a question of "blame" -- it's a question of trying to understand God's will.

At a basic level, for example, a believer feels the death of a family member as a terrible loss, but from a religious perspective it's a transition for the deceased to a new and better phase. Belief isn't a simple, single state of saying, "OK, God chose to save my mom or not, so I believe or not." Instead for believers it's a constant state of questioning and interpreting what death means, how death fits with faith, et cetera.[/quote]

That sure sounds like a lot of work, trying to justify death, which happens to everyone at some point. Don't some things just happen or do you think God is exerting his will in all aspects of your life -- and everyone's else's lives, even people who don't believe in him?[/quote]

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