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Originally Posted by RavenSong
I certainly didn't intend to imply that anyone is to blame.
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I am not saying
you are. I am saying that it's an easy way for others to blame us. As in "She chose this path before she was born. I am just playing my part in her journey."
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Originally Posted by RavenSong
As far as this notion being a bunch of "hooey," I guess a lot of the Western world would agree with you. But the Eastern religions tend to believe in reincarnation and choosing one's own spiritual paths.
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Like I said, it's a difference in theology.
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Originally Posted by RavenSong
I like what SoniaRose said: [i]It's a way of answering that unanswerable question: why do bad things happen to good people?
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Like I said, I am a believer in free will. I believe that the things that happen to us, and happen to others, are because of the choices that we
and others made. I have seen to many innocents hurt by the choices others have made to believe that they chose this for themselves. (I am a therapist that works primarily with traumatized children and adults.)
I cannot believe in a God that orchestrates the kind of abuse and pain I have been witness to just so that someone can learn a life lesson. That is not the God I know and love.