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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The deserved consequences is what bothers me most about that religious view. I don't see how anyone deserves cancer, having a child die etc. it's an awful thing to believe.[/quote]

This is NOT a standard belief in most forms of Christianity of Judaism. In fact, this notion has been debated, and largely rejected, since Job in the Old Testament. As you might recall, awful things happened to Job: he was plagued with oozing sores, his family members died and his businesses ran aground. His friends came around and many tried to blame Job himself, telling him that while he looked like the perfect Jew, father and businessman, there must be some bad deed he was hiding for all these bad things to happen to him. The Book of Job ultimately rejects the idea that it was somehow Job's fault. That was the beginning, or the recorded beginning at least, of asking why bad things happen to good people.

Christians take this further and say that your reward, good or bad, is not on earth--your reward instead is in heaven or hell.

Yes, you'll get the occasional whack job who says that gay marriage is the cause of an earthquake or something. But that's outside the mainstream religion. Worse, that's such a cynical thing to say it seems like money, not religion, is often the motive.

To get back to the first post, I've never heard anybody say "God is punishing her with cancer" or "that child deserved to die." Never heard this ever, and I sort of doubt that poster has heard anything besides the "God is smiting us" whack-job interpretation of natural disasters. [/quote]

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