Reply #6: I always tell people that.

[John Gauger]

When people ask why bad things happen to good people, I always say it's not a matter of bad things happening to good people but things happening to people. We assign these handles of good and bad without any empirical basis. And there isn't any why. It just happens without any rhyme or reason.

I don't know what she really believes. I remember a year or so ago she gave me a funny look when I said I was an atheist, but I was giving her and her friends a funny look already. I don't understand why people believe, but they all seemed to. but she seemed to0 take my advice pretty well, so I don't know if she's lapsed since then or what. We were never actually close, but we've been corresponding lately, telling each other our troubles. I do have a friend, however, who has become an atheist as a result of a personal tragedy. He kept saying that if there was a god he would get him out of this, but yet again our boy JC didn't deliver. So now he's one of us. But what I don't understand is that it takes a tragedy for people to see it. I figured it out just by thinking about it. There clearly isn't any evidence. But these people need a rude awakening.