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 “Well, you know, if you read the Bible, there’s actually a couple of circumstances where that happened. And the Lord uses all circumstances. I mean, you can get on that path, but you know it’s a reality, unfortunately … So you’re saying that God is not sovereign with every activity that happens in someone’s life and can’t use anything and everything in someone’s life, and I disagree with that.”

― George Faught, when asked if pregnancy from rape was the will of God

“You know how, when there’s a disaster or a sudden death or a plane crash or a bankruptcy, there’s always someone around who says, ‘everything happens for a reason.’ I guess it’s supposed to be comforting, although I’m not sure how much comfort can be found in that statement. ‘You mean my child didn’t just die because his cells metastasized, he died as part of some greater plan?’ …

“I’d rather have someone say to me, in a moment of sadness, ‘nothing happens for a reason,’ because I think there’s more evidence that’s true and, anyway, it makes me feel better that the universe has nothing personal against me. If I have a cut on my hand, I’d like to believe that I just have a cut on my hand. If ‘everything happens for a reason,’ that means that there is some great consciousness that has decreed that I must have a cut on my hand and you do not. Why are you special?”

― Jon Carroll

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